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 ...

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

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Essar Oil has significantly raised processing of heavy and ultra heavy crudes at its Vadinar refinery in Gujarat to improve refining margins, the company's managing director said ...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Pacific Commerce, the trading arm of refiner Shandong Dongming Petrochemical, has purchased 66 percent more crude oil in 2017 than last year, both for its own system and for ...