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  • small type oil refinery production line oil refining
  • What is a petroleum refinery?
  • A petroleum refinery is a set of installations intended to transform crude oil, generally unusable as such, into petroleum products: motor gasoline, jet fuel, diesel fuel, fuel oil, lubricants, liquefied petroleum gases, naphtha, and so on. The products consumed in largest volumes are motor gasoline, motor diesel, and heavy fuel oil.
  • What are small business opportunities in oil refining?
  • Small business opportunities in refining may strongly depend on a number of factors, including regional demand for refined products, available crude oil supplies, and unique regional environmental regulations, among others. A ¡°small business¡± in the oil refining business is defined differently in different statutes.
  • Why do small refineries exist?
  • Only geographical reasons (proximity to crude oil, e.g., in the United States; proximity to isolated markets, e.g., in Africa) can justify the existence of small refineries. The degree of complexity of a refinery naturally increases the cost of processing a ton of crude oil. This is mainly due to higher cost of capital and maintenance.
  • Are light sweet crude oil transforming refinery operations?
  • The increasingly available light sweet crude oils produced from unconventional shale resources, like North Dakota¡¯s Bakken formation and the Texas Eagle Ford formation, are changing U.S. refining prospects and have revitalized some refinery operations that formerly depended on imported light crude oil.
  • Are crude oil refineries adapting their refining economics?
  • Complex refineries that locked into imported heavy crude oils to run through their cracking and coking plants are taking the new light crudes and adapting their refining economics to run them.
  • What is a small refinery?
  • Both Title XV (Ethanol and Motor Fuels) of the Energy Policy Act 20057 and Title II (Energy Security Through Increased Production of Biofuels) of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 20078 defined a small refinery as having less than 75,000 b/d in average aggregate daily crude oil throughput.