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• petroleum refining — Introduction  conversion of crude oil into useful products. History Distillation of kerosene and naphtha       The refining of crude petroleum owes its origin to the successful drilling of the first oil well in Titusville, Pa., in 1859. Prior to… …   Universalium

• Houston Refining — formerly known as Lyondell Citgo Refining (or LCR). The convert|270200|oilbbl/d|m3/d|sing=on (July , 2007) refinery is located on the Texas Gulf Coast in Houston, covering nearly convert|700|acre|km2 along the Houston Ship Channel.HistoryThe… …   Wikipedia

• U.S. Oil and Refining — Infobox Company company name = U.S. Oil Refining Co. company company type = Subsidiary company slogan = revenue = foundation = 1952 as Pacific Oil Refining Co. 1955 as U.S. Oil Refining Co. location = Tacoma, Washington, USA num employees = 160… …   Wikipedia

• Vegetable oil refining — Vegetable oil can be used as feedstock for an oil refinery. There it can be transformed into fuel by hydrocracking (which breaks big molecules into smaller ones using hydrogen) or hydrogenation (which adds hydrogen to molecules). These methods… …   Wikipedia

• Hunt Refining Company — was founded by oilman H.L. Hunt as an asphalt refining company in 1946. Today it owns and operates a convert|52000|oilbbl/d|m3/d|sing=on petroleum refinery in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The plant also includes a convert|16000|oilbbl/d|m3/d|sing=on… …   Wikipedia

• Gas oil separation plant — (GOSP) is a type of plant used primarily in the oil industry. Saudi Aramco has at least three majors GOSPs, including one in Sheyba.Produce crude oil is sent to a Gas Oil Separation Plant or GOSP to be divided into oil and associated gases, which …   Wikipedia

• Balbach Smelting & Refining Company — (also known as Balbach and Sons Refining and Smelting Company) was a smelting plant in Newark, New Jersey operating in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was the first commercial electrolytic refinery in the United States.… …   Wikipedia

• Turnaround (refining) — Turnarounds are scheduled events wherein an entire process unit of an industrial plant (refinery, petrochemical plant, power plant, pulp and paper mill, etc.) is taken offstream for an extended period for revamp and/or renewal. Turnaround is a… …   Wikipedia

• Mastic (plant resin) — Mastic tears Mastic (Greek: Μαστίχα) is a resin obtained from the mastic tree (Pistacia lentiscus). In pharmacies and Nature shops it is called arabic gum (not to be confused with gum arabic) and Yemen gum . In Greece it is known as the tears of… …   Wikipedia

• Blending plant —   A facility that has no refining capability but is either capable of producing finished motor gasoline through mechanical blending or blends oxygenates with motor gasoline.   U.S. Dept. of Energy, Energy Information Administration s Energy… …   Energy terms

• Diffusion of technology in Canada — This article outlines the history of the diffusion or spread of technology in Canada. Technologies chosen for treatment here include, in rough order, transportation, communication, energy, materials, industry, public works, public services… …   Wikipedia