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An '''oil refinery''' is an [[industrial]] process plant that transforms raw [[crude oil]] into usable [[fossil fuel]]s, lubricants, and chemical feedstocks. These sprawling complexes serve as the downstream link in the [[energy]] sector, operating continuously through extensive networks of piping, furnaces, and distillation towers.
An '''oil refinery''' is an [[industrial]] process plant that transforms raw [[crude oil]] into usable [[fossil fuel]]s, lubricants, and chemical feedstocks. These sprawling complexes serve as the downstream link in the [[energy]] sector, operating continuously through extensive networks of piping, furnaces, and distillation towers.
Refineries are built to handle only the particular type of crude oils that are produced close by, so that they can make the products that are in greatest demand in their geographic vicinity. In other words, a refinery built in the [[Netherlands]] to handle [[Urals]] crude is not suited to handle West Texas crude.
Light crude such as West Texas Intermediate produces proportionally more [[gasoline]] and less middle distillate. Running lighter crude when you need [[diesel]] and jet fuel makes the allocation problem worse, not better, because it shrinks the pool of middle distillate that both [[diesel]] and jet fuel compete for.
==Middle distillates: Diesel and jet fuel==
==Middle distillates: Diesel and jet fuel==
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[[Category:Industry]]