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An oil refinery or petroleum refinery is an industrial process plant where petroleum (crude oil) is transformed and refined into products such as gasoline (petrol), diesel fuel, asphalt base, fuel oils, heating oil, kerosene, liquefied petroleum gas and petroleum naphtha.
Petroleum refinery in Anacortes, Washington, United States. Petroleum refining processes are the chemical engineering processes and other facilities used in petroleum refineries (also referred to as oil refineries) to transform crude oil into useful products such as liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), gasoline or petrol, kerosene, jet fuel, diesel oil and fuel oils.
Shell Haven Oil Refinery. A refinery is a production facility composed of a group of chemical engineering unit processes and unit operations refining certain materials or converting raw material into products of value.
ExxonMobil's oil refinery in Baton Rouge is the sixth-largest in the United States [1] Anacortes Refinery , on the north end of March Point southeast of Anacortes, Washington. Petroleum refining in the United States in 2024 had a capacity of 18.4 million barrels per day. [2]
HOUSTON (Reuters) -Two people were killed in a chemical release at Pemex's 312,500-barrel-per-day (bpd) Deer Park oil refinery in Texas, the county sheriff said. Up to 35 people at the refinery ...
The Oil & Gas Journal publishes a worldwide list of refineries annually in a country-by-country tabulation that includes for each refinery: location, crude oil daily processing capacity, and the size of each process unit in the refinery. For some countries, the refinery list is further categorized state-by-state.
A petrochemical refinery in Grangemouth, Scotland . Petroleum products are materials derived from crude oil as it is processed in oil refineries.Unlike petrochemicals, which are a collection of well-defined usually pure organic compounds, petroleum products are complex mixtures. [1]
Operating as Houston Refining, LP, LyondellBasell's Houston refinery is a 268,000-barrel-per-day (42,600 m 3 /d) refinery located on the Texas Gulf Coast in Houston that occupies 700 acres (2.8 km 2) along the Houston Ship Channel.