Refined Products
Refineries mainly produce:
- Gasoline: a light liquid petroleum product that is typically used as a fuel for internal combustion engines.
- Diesel fuel: liquid fuel used in diesel engines. Ultra-low sulfur diesel (ULSD) is a standard for defining diesel fuel with substantially lowered sulfur contents.
- Jet fuel or kerosene: a type of aviation fuel designed for use in aircraft powered by gas-turbine engines.
- Heating oil: a gasoil with properties that generally make it suitable as a fuel for oil-fired heating and boilers.
- Heavy fuel oil: fuel oil with a distillation range of over 350°C. Heavy fuel oil is used in heat plants, power stations and industrial furnaces.
- Lubes or lubricants: a substance introduced to reduce friction between moving surfaces. One of the single largest applications for lubricants, in the form of motor oil, is protecting the internal combustion engines in motor vehicles and powered equipment.
- Solvents: liquids that are used for diluting or thinning a solution. Liquids that absorb another liquid, gas, or solid in order to form a homogeneous mixture.
- LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas): a gas mixture used for fuel purposes, containing propane, propylene, butane, or butylenes as its main components, that has been liquefied to enable it to be transported and stored under pressure.
- Bitumen: A residual product of crude-oil vacuum distillation, which is primarily used for asphalt coating of roads and roofing materials.




