A number of refineries utilize a combination of technologies to effectively measure and enhance the distillation of crude oil into isolated hydrocarbon components, in order for them to be processed ...

Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) has initiated the start-up of furnaces in the atmospheric distillation unit at its Abreu e Lima refinery (Rnest) at the port of Suape, near Recife, the capital of ...

US operable atmospheric crude oil distillation capacity increased 0.9% during 2019, according to the US Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) annual Refinery Capacity Report, reaching a record 19 ...

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Refining converts mixed crude oil into specification fuels, petrochemical feedstocks, lubricants, and other products by physical separation, chemical conversion, and product treating/blending. It ...

LISBON, Oct 17 (Reuters) - The atmospheric distillation unit at Portugal's 225,000-barrel-per-day Sines oil refinery owned by Galp Energia has been in an unplanned outage since the beginning of last ...

U.S. refinery capacity dropped in 2022. U.S. refinery capacity dropped in 2022, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) latest annual refinery capacity report. The report, ...