From the initial extraction of petroleum to its refining in advanced facilities, watch as crude oil undergoes multiple stages, including distillation, cracking, and reforming, to become the ...

The Crude Oil Refiners Association of Nigeria has faulted the Technical Sub-Committee on the Crude and Refined Product Sales in Naira over the continued exclusion of modular and smaller local ...

This article aims to open up the refining process and demystify exactly what’s inside that familiar 42-gallon unit known as ...

French oil group Total halted on Sunday a distillation unit at its Donges refinery on France's western coast due to lack of crude supply during the country's current strikes, the company said.

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… ...

MIT engineers have developed a novel membrane-based method for separating crude oil components that could reduce the energy used in refining by up to 90%, potentially transforming the global fuel ...

Hollow, pumpkin-shaped molecules can efficiently separate valuable hydrocarbons from crude oil, KAUST researchers have shown. These "molecular sieves," known as cucurbiturils, could enable a more ...