Oil refinery

industrial process plant where crude oil is processed and refined into more useful products From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Oil refinery

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An oil refinery or petroleum refinery is an industrial plant where crude oil is made into useful petroleum products by fractional distillation and other processes. Products include gasoline, diesel fuel, asphalt base, heating oil, kerosene, and liquefied petroleum gas.^[1]^[2]

Thumb — Anacortes Refinery (Tesoro), on the north end of March Point southeast of Anacortes, Washington

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