Crude oil fractionation is the primary separation step in a refinery, physically splitting crude into boiling-range cuts for downstream upgrading. It sits at the front of the refining value chain and ...

The highly complex refineries located on the U.S. Gulf Coast could resume processing heavy Venezuelan crude oil in the years following the capture of President Nicolás Maduro, possibly pushing out ...

The Phillips 66 Los Angeles Refinery could be a test case for how the state and local governments should handle refinery ...

A central piece of a closed crude oil refinery in Convent recently came crashing down as Shell Oil shifts the nearly 60-year-old complex toward making renewable fuels, company officials confirmed. The ...

Africa’s oil refining industry has long struggled to keep pace with the continent’s vast crude oil production. For decades, many African nations exported crude oil while importing refined petroleum ...

Oil refineries are the backbone of the global energy ecosystem, transforming crude oil into the fuels and petrochemical products that power industries, economies, and everyday life. From early ...

NEW YORK, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Marathon Petroleum (MPC.N), opens new tab said it bought two cargoes of Venezuelan crude oil at the end of January and expects its refineries to process more heavy grades, ...