How long does it take to build an oil refinery and while you are at it, how long to build a pipeline in ANWAR?

Oil refineries are a bit like light rays into space ,,they just go on forever,,,profound HUH! Well to be truthful they can take several(2-3) years before the first drop of anything comes out..most refineries we have in America today are very old and use Analog controls. To update a system to digital can take longer than building a new refinery..The other problem is where the thing CAN be built ...Nobody wants a refinery in their backyard...but somebody has to. So location is a big problem..The other bigggggg problem is the EPA and overcoming the red tape of their lot...In the refining of oil you get all sorts of things perking out that ,well, to be honest are a little less than good for you..like Arsenic and Hydrogen Sulfide and Sesium...other heavy metals are free as well...So being compliant with the clean guys is a must...Everyone I know wants a new refinery so their gas will go down in price..Including ME...I wish we could build a few here in Texas ..in the hayday of the oil boom Houston to Texas city was full of small Cracking plants ..Gasoline was made in batch style from Naptha and tetra-ethy-lead...and re-refined oil...those days are gone .Nowadays Gasoline is a blend of cleaners and de-oxidizers and anti-polutants .. the Octane rating is most often below 90 and a few years ago you could get 105 octane (high gravity) for less than 50cents...the cost to produce a gallon is a direct reflection on our use requirement. When my grandfather worked the fields in Pre-Boomtown days oil was a problem not a gold mine.. Then when boomtown came in the 30's oil was still a problem ...We made gasoline for the war effort and for our efforts oil was still a problem...Our economy flourished over the last 60 years and I'll be if oil is still not a problem...Big oil companies know YOU need it and they have it and YOU don't.... thats what drives the cost up...Our own demand...Well the pipeline question is pretty straight forward ..the US has already built the Alaskan pipeline and it made its debut in the late 70's.We built about thre-fouths of a mile per day...of mostly hand welded 48'; good old American steel spiral weld pipe....Well there ya go ..have a good one from the E..How long does it take to build an oil refinery and while you are at it, how long to build a pipeline in ANWAR?
';The Denali Project by BP/Conoco will spend $600 million over 36 months and have 150 staff working by the end of this year. The gas pipeline proposed will take 10 years to build and cost $30 billion dollars making it the largest construction project in North America ever. The pipeline will have a capacity of 4 billion cubic feet of gas per day and equal a rough equivalent of 6-8% of US daily consumption.';How long does it take to build an oil refinery and while you are at it, how long to build a pipeline in ANWAR?
An oil refinery, on the scale in which i am familiar with, can be the size of a town, and therefore take a very long time to build, a stab in the dark would be ... years?