Oil refining is necessary for transforming raw, unusable crude oil into valuable goods like gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and petrochemical feedstocks. However, the usual distillation process is ...

The 90,000-bpd unit was among several shut on Tuesday night as Tropical Storm Eduoard passed near the refinery, the largest in the United States.

Currently the typical way that crude oil is processed involves a fractional distillation column, in which heated crude oil is separated into the various hydrocarbon compounds using distinct boiling ...