Citgo Petroleum Corp., Houston, has restarted a vacuum distillation unit and a delayed coker at its Lake Charles, La., refinery, both of which had been offline since the summer of 2020. Citgo ...

An inexpensive, porous polymer membrane helps to separate raw crude oil, without heat or selective coating. Heavy hydrocarbons self-assemble inside the pores to create channels that are likely to be ...

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 ...

Venezuela's 310,000-barrel-per-day Cardon refinery was restarting its crude distillation units on Wednesday following a fire that forced its shutdown earlier this week, two workers said (LEARN MORE).

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 ...

NEW YORK, May 30 (Reuters) - Valero Energy Corp said on Friday a fire-damaged 155,000 barrels-per-day crude oil vacuum distillation unit at its Aruba oil refinery was running at 100,000 bpd following ...