• What is an oil refinery?
  • An oil refinery or petroleum refinery is an industrial plant that transforms crude oil into useful petroleum products such as gasoline, diesel fuel, heating oil, kerosene, liquefied petroleum gas, jet fuel, asphalt base, heating oil, and fuel oils.
  • What are petroleum refining processes?
  • 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.
  • What is a refinery & how does it work?
  • Refining breaks crude oil down into its various components, which are then selectively reconfigured into new products. Petroleum refineries are complex and expensive industrial facilities.
  • What products are produced in oil refinery?
  • Carbon, in the form of petroleum coke, and hydrogen may also be produced as petroleum products. The hydrogen produced is often used as an intermediate product for other oil refinery processes such as hydrocracking and hydrodesulfurization.
  • What were oil refineries like before WW2?
  • Prior to World War II in the early 1940s, most petroleum refineries in the United States consisted simply of crude oil distillation units (often referred to as atmospheric crude oil distillation units).
  • What is an oil refinery in Israel?
  • Figure 1. An oil refinery in Israel. An oil refinery is an industrial plant where crude oil is separated into a variety of different, useful substances through a variety of chemical separation steps. After extraction from the ground, processing at oil refineries is the second step in the production of different petroleum products.