Just as a paper mill turns lumber into paper, a refinery takes crude oil andEssentially, refining breaks crude oil down into its various components,www. eia. doe. gov/kids/energyfacts/sources/non-renewable/refinery. html - 16k -. Conversion Oil Refining. For example if decane is heated to about 500 C the covalent carbon-carbon bonds begin to break during the cracking process. www. elmhurst. edu/~chm/vchembook/513refining. html - 8k -. Myths and Facts about Oil Refineries in the United StatesMyth 3: The United States has maxed out its oil refining capability. Fact: Oil companies havewww. citizen. org/cmep/energy_enviro_nuclear/electricity/Oil_and_Gas/ articles. cfm?ID=11829 - 22k -. The home page of Refining Online(R), a web-based information service for the petroleum refining industry. www. refiningonline. com/ - 29k -. Frontier Oil Corporation - Frontier Oil Co. Home Page - You can modify this page using the Content Managers module For more information on using Tendenciwww. frontieroil. com/ - 20k -. Here's a link to a really good map of oil refining/SPR storage facilities in respect to the path of Katrina (NB: OLD TRACK MAP!www. theoildrum. com/node/4517 - 631k -. Return to. Animated multi-part detailed unbiased tutorial examines the chemistry and technology involved in refining crude oil to produce many products. Freudenrich, Ph. D. , Craig. "How Oil Refining Works. " 04 January 2001. HowStuffWorks. com. <http://science. howstuffworks. com/oil-refining. htm> 29 September 2008. www. howstuffworks. com/oil-refining. htm www. howstuffworks. com/oil-refining. htm. Freudenrich, Ph. D. , Craig. "How Oil Refining Works. " 04 January 2001. HowStuffWorks. com. <http://science. howstuffworks. com/oil-refining You have to separate the different types of hydrocarbons to have anything useful. Fortunately there is an easy way to separate things, and this is what oil refining is all about. science. howstuffworks. com/oil-refining2. htm science. howstuffworks. com/oil-refining2. htm. var wikiImage = new Image(); wikiImage. onload = function() &ob;if(this. height 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, kerosine, and liq. en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Oil_refinery. Freudenrich, Ph. D. , Craig. "How Oil Refining Works. " 04 January 2001. HowStuffWorks. com. <http://science. howstuffworks. com/oil-refining. htm> 26 September 2008. www. howstuffworks. com/oil-refining1. htm www. howstuffworks. com/oil-refining1. htm. Animated multi-part detailed unbiased tutorial examines the chemistry and technology involved in refining crude oil to produce many products. Freudenrich, Ph. D. , Craig. "How Oil Refining Works. " 04 January 2001. HowStuffWorks. com. <http://science. howstuffworks. com/oil-refining. htm> 29 September 2008. www. howstuffworks. com/oil-refining. htm www. howstuffworks. com/oil-refining. htm. The core refining process is simple distillation, illustrated in a stylized fashion at the right. Because crude oil is made up of a mixture of hydrocarbons, this first and basic refining process is aimed at separating the crude oil into its "fractions," the broad categories of its component hydrocarbons. www. eia. doe. gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/analysis_publicat. www. eia. doe. gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/analysis_publications/oil_market_basics/refining_text. htm. Posted by Robert Rapier on March 16, 2007 - 12:00pm Topic: Supply/Production Tags: ethanol, gasoline blending, refining, summer gasoline [list all tags] This is the first time I've posted here, and being a layman (totally) I have not understood a lot of the "rock oil" industry and what we are possibly facing-at all. www. theoildrum. com/node/2374 www. theoildrum. com/node/2374. var _psBack = '« Prev'; var _psForward = 'Next »'; var _psQueryID = '293A56A80556538B817F0939EDC79A39'; var _psQuerySource = '121'; var _psSiteID = '';   1  .