A refinery...
There is jet fuel, asphalt, petroleum gas, kerosene, heating oil, and lubricating oil. These are all set at different levels of the fractional distillation tower that is used to separate all these products from its original state as crude oil. Then they are tubed off to where they need to go.
Refined products that are not made from crude oil include biofuels like ethanol and biodiesel, which are derived from organic materials such as corn, sugarcane, and vegetable oils. Additionally, synthetic fuels can be produced through chemical processes using natural gas or coal. Other non-crude oil products include hydrogen, which can be generated from water through electrolysis, and certain lubricants and chemicals sourced from renewable feedstocks.
BLCO means "Bonny Light crude oil" which is a crude from Nigeria.
The downstream industry refers to the sector of the oil and gas industry that focuses on the refining, distribution, and marketing of petroleum products. This includes processes such as refining crude oil into fuels and other products, as well as the transportation and sale of these products to consumers and businesses. Key players in this industry include refineries, fuel distributors, and retail outlets. Ultimately, the downstream industry plays a crucial role in delivering energy and petroleum-derived products to end-users.
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An oil refinery
That would be a "refinery".
Crude oil is separated in an oil refinery which makes a bunch of different byproducts such as airplane gas, kerosene, and alot more. -cooleye101
At refineries.
Crude oil is separated into various components through a process called fractional distillation. These components include gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, heating oil, and other petroleum products. The separation is based on the different boiling points of each component.
Crude oil is separated into useful substances through a process called fractional distillation. This involves heating the crude oil to high temperatures in a fractionating column, which separates the mixture into different fractions based on their boiling points. Each fraction can then be further processed to obtain useful products such as gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel.
A crude oil refinery is a factory. The factory takes the crude oil, and turns it into useful products, like gasoline.
Refinery
This is typically called a refinery.
Crude oil contains mixture of various types of hydrocarbons. The hydrocarbons are separated by fractional distillation. Different hydrocarbons have different boiling points and therefore after crude oil is heated, shorter chains of hydrocarbons which have lower boiling point will become gas and can be easily separated one by one from hydrocarbons with shorter chains to longer chains. The brief products are Petroleum Gas, Gasoline, Kerosone, Heating Oil, Lubricating Oil and Bitumen in order of increasing molecular size.