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  2. Oil refinery - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Petroleum refining processes - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Petroleum refining in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Due to the great surge in American production of oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids since 2008, those products have been cheaper in the North American market than worldwide, giving American refiners a major cost advantage. [19] The discount on US crude is partially attributed to the long-standing federal ban on exports of American crude oil.

  5. List of oil refineries - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Refinery - Wikipedia

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    Petroleum oil refinery, which converts crude oil into high-octane motor spirit (gasoline/petrol), diesel oil, liquefied petroleum gases (LPG), kerosene, heating fuel oils, hexane, lubricating oils, bitumen, and petroleum coke; Edible oil refinery which converts cooking oil into a product that is uniform in taste, smell and appearance, and stability

  7. U.S. crude production reaches record, led by Texas - AOL

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    (The Center Square) – The U.S. oil industry broke another production record this year, averaging 13.4 million barrels per day (b/d) of crude oil in August, according to a new U.S. Energy ...

  8. Dangote Refinery - Wikipedia

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    The Dangote Refinery is an oil refinery owned by Dangote Group that was inaugurated on 22 May 2023 [1] in Lekki, Nigeria.When fully operational, it is expected to have the capacity to process about 650,000 barrels of crude oil per day, making it the largest single-train refinery in the world.

  9. California oil refineries must stockpile gasoline to avoid ...

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    The governor’s office pointed out that Australia, Japan and the European Union have all passed regulations requiring major fuel refiners to maintain reserves of gasoline, diesel or crude oil ...