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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 in the United States - Wikipedia

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    American petroleum refining largely grew out of oil shale refining. When the Drake Well started producing in 1859, the oil shale industry was growing rapidly, and establishing refineries near cannel coal deposits along the Ohio River Valley. As oil production increased, the oil shale refiners discovered that their refining process worked just ...

  4. 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.

  5. Oil refiners face reckoning as demand plummets - AOL

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    The global oil refining industry is facing a reckoning from falling fuel demand that is the deepest and fastest ever. Smaller and financially weak oil refiners may not emerge from the crisis, say ...

  6. 15 Biggest Oil Refining Companies in the World - AOL

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    Click to skip ahead and jump to the 5 biggest oil refining companies in the world. But before we get into more detail about the company as well as the global industry pertaining to oil refining ...

  7. Petroleum in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The United States oil industry is made up of thousands of companies, engaged in exploration and production, transportation, refining, distribution, and marketing of oil. The industry is often informally divided into "upstream" (exploration and production), "midstream" (transportation and refining), and "downstream" (distribution and marketing).

  8. Study of U.S. oil refineries ranks Chevron El Segundo as ...

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    The Los Angeles County refinery was ranked as the top emitter of nitrogen and selenium among 81 oil facilities in 2021, a recent study found. ... which analyzed the oil industry’s toxic release ...

  9. History of the petroleum industry - Wikipedia

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    Oil field in California, 1938. The modern history of petroleum began in the nineteenth century with the refining of paraffin from crude oil. The Scottish chemist James Young in 1847 noticed a natural petroleum seepage in the Riddings colliery at Alfreton, Derbyshire from which he distilled a light thin oil suitable for use as lamp oil, at the same time obtaining a thicker oil suitable for ...