At refineries.
Petroleum distillates are products made from crude oil. The process of taking crude oil and creating finished products is called distillation. The first step of the refining process is running crude oil through a distillation tower. At this time crude oil is separated into different basic products which then undergo further process at the refinery to create products that are sold to consumers. There are three classes of distillate products: Light: Liquid Petroleum Gas(LPG), gasoline, and naptha. Medium: Kerosene (and jet fuel) and diesel. Heavy/Residuum: Heavy fuel/bunker fuel, wax, and asphalt.
It's called refining the petroleum (occurring at refineries). This process is used in order to separate the crude oil into products such as diesel fuel, heating oil, liquified petroleum gas, kerosene, gasoline, or asphalt base.
A factory that processes crude oil into other hydrocarbon products (such as natural gas, gasoline or diesel fuel).
One of the first commercially viable products refined from crude was Kerosene, which was the "hurricane lamp" fuel of the later 1800's.
Because it is separated through the process of distillation into different useful products such as gasoline, kerosene, naptha, gas, diesel, heavy gas oil and residue. Crude oil is not used as a energy source by itself because it has too many different boiling points- being a mixture.
crude oil processed in a refinery to separate it into its usable components.
crude oil processed in a refinery to separate it into its usable components.
crude oil processed in a refinery to separate it into its usable components.
Kerosene
Crude oil is refined into a variety of products, the most important of which is gasoline; it can also be used to make diesel fuel, paraffin, lubricants, plastics, etc.
Crude oil can be refined to make a plethora of petroleum product. Kerosene, gasoline, petroleum jelly (commonly known as Vaseline), lubricating oil, and heavy fuel, and many other products. Crude oil contains many different substances which all separate during the refining process.
One barrel (42 gallons) of crude oil, when refined, yields approximately 19.6 gallons of finished motor gasoline. The remainder of the barrel yields distillate fuel oil, residual fuel oil, jet fuel, and other products.