The refinery heats crude oil until most of it evaporates and floats up a distillation column. What's left behind is a thick sludge of the heaviest hydrocarbons. Since various hydrocarbons evaporate ...

Petroleum products are hydrocarbon-based compounds derived mainly from crude oil and natural ... purification, distillation, and conversion. Some of the most manufactured refinery products are ...

HOUSTON, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Chemical maker LyondellBasell Industries (LYB.N), opens new tab on Friday detailed its ...

For more than a century, the sprawling Phillips 66 oil refinery complex has dominated a vast tract of southern Los Angeles County. Its massive fuel storage tanks, distillation towers and sprawling ...

Lyondellbasell, which in early 2022 said it planned to close its 264,000 b/d Houston refinery at the end of the first quarter of 2025, said on Friday it will shut down some units as early as January.

Ruia’s family business, Essar Group, acquired the Stanlow refinery from Shell in 2011 and has since invested $1 billion in ...