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 ...

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

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 ...

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.