| Abstract from DBPedia | An oil refinery or petroleum refinery is an industrial process plant where petroleum (crude oil) is transformed and refined into useful products such as gasoline (petrol), diesel fuel, asphalt base, fuel oils, heating oil, kerosene, liquefied petroleum gas and petroleum naphtha. Petrochemicals feedstock like ethylene and propylene can also be produced directly by cracking crude oil without the need of using refined products of crude oil such as naphtha. The crude oil feedstock has typically been processed by an oil production plant. There is usually an oil depot at or near an oil refinery for the storage of incoming crude oil feedstock as well as bulk liquid products. In 2020, the total capacity of global refineries for crude oil was about 101.2 million barrels per day. Oil refineries are typically large, sprawling industrial complexes with extensive piping running throughout, carrying streams of fluids between large chemical processing units, such as distillation columns. In many ways, oil refineries use much of the technology and can be thought of, as types of chemical plants. Since December 2008, the world’s largest oil refinery has been the Jamnagar Refinery owned by Reliance Industries, located in Gujarat, India, with a processing capacity of 1.24 million barrels (197,000 m3). Some modern petroleum refineries process as much as 800,000 to 900,000 barrels (120,000 to 143,000 cubic meters) of crude oil per day. An oil refinery is considered an essential part of the downstream side of the petroleum industry.石油精製（せきゆせいせい）とは、原油を精製して燃料油、石油化学製品など多種多様な製品を製造する工業プロセスである。 石油精製工場は、原料受入から製品（他の装置の原料として使用される中間製品も含む）を製造する設備と各種付帯設備からなる。これらの設備は、その機能によって次のように分類できる。 (Source: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Oil_refinery) |
