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Keywords: Refinery, Crude, Diesel, Petroleum, Sprawling

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a refinery for petroleum

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a manufacturing facility that uses crude oil as a raw material and produces a wide variety of products

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an example of process manufacturing

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an organised and coordinated arrangement of manufacturing processes designed to produce physical and chemical changes in crude oil to convert it into everyday products like petrol, diesel, lubricating oil, fuel oil and bitumen

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An oil refinery is an industrial process plant where crude oil is processed and refined into more useful petroleum products, such as gasoline, diesel fuel, asphalt base, heating oil, kerosene, and liquefied petroleum gas. Oil refineries are typically large sprawling industrial complexes with extensive piping running throughout, carrying streams of fluids between large chemical processing units.

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