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The facts about Oil refining


Oil refinery

This Fact Sheet will address the following issues – the world’s biggest crude oil producers and consumers; the workings of an oil refinery; simple distillation processes; common refinery products; advanced refining processes; the expansion of oil refining; Australia’s oil refineries; the BP Oil Refinery in Kwinana.
 
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*World of Energy acknowledges the expert assistance of the BP Oil Refinery in Kwinana in providing information for this Fact Sheet.

 


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  How does an oil refinery work?
  Modern refineries produce more
high-grade oil.

 

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Oil Refineries
Introduction  
What is crude oil?  
How does an oil refinery work?  
What are the products of an
oil refinery?
 
Modern refineries produce more
high-grade oil
 
The expansion of
oil refining around
the world
 
Australia's main
oil refineries
 
Oil refining in Western Australia  
Useful references  
 

 

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