Description: Petroleum refining processes explained simply, Engineering Disasters: How Do Oil Refineries Work? | History, An Overview of the Refining Process, How PETROL is MADE from CRUDE OIL | How is PETROLEUM EXTRACTED?
video (50872) headlines (21498) world news (21468) worldnews (20541) sign up and share your playlists (20518) videos and editable pages for news (20515) wn archive (20234) wn network (20225) oil refinery (18) oil refinery breaking news (1)
An oil refinery or petroleum refinery is an industrial process plant where crude oil is processed and refined into more useful products such as petroleum naphtha , gasoline , diesel fuel , asphalt base , heating oil , kerosene and liquefied petroleum gas . Oil refineries are typically large, sprawling industrial complexes with extensive piping running throughout, carrying streams of fluids between large chemical processing units. In many ways, oil refineries use much of the technology of, and can be thought
An oil refinery is considered an essential part of the downstream side of the petroleum industry .
Raw or unprocessed crude oil is not generally useful in industrial applications, although "light, sweet" (low viscosity, low sulfur ) crude oil has been used directly as a burner fuel to produce steam for the propulsion of seagoing vessels. The lighter elements, however, form explosive vapors in the fuel tanks and are therefore hazardous, especially in warships . Instead, the hundreds of different hydrocarbon molecules in crude oil are separated in a refinery into components which can be used as fuels , lub