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  • What is crude oil refining?
  • Petroleum refineries convert (refine) crude oil into petroleum products for use as fuels for transportation, heating, paving roads, and generating electricity and as feedstocks for making chemicals. Refining breaks crude oil down into its various components, which are then selectively reconfigured into new products.
  • Do refineries convert crude oil into finished petroleum products?
  • Refineries exist to convert crude oil into finished petroleum products. Hence, to understand the fundamentals of petroleum refining, one must begin with crude oil. Hundreds of different crude oils (usually identified by geographic origin) are processed, in greater or lesser volumes, in the world’s refineries.
  • What is a petroleum refinery?
  • Petroleum refineries are large-scale industrial complexes that produce saleable petroleum products from crude oil (and sometimes other feedstocks like biomass). The details of refinery operations differ from location to location, but virtually all refineries share two basic processes for separating crude oil into the various product components.
  • What are the key manufacturing operations of crude oil?
  • The key manufacturing operations include crude oil loading and unloading, mixing of crude oil, production unit operations of conversion and separation, operations of blending, and distribution of products. Other components of the petroleum supply chain network include oil explorations, crude oil procurement, and sales and distribution of products.