processing of crude oil

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• Crude oil acquisitions — (unfinished oil acquisitions)   The volume of crude oil either:   • acquired by the respondent for processing for his own account in accordance with accounting procedures generally accepted and consistently and historically applied by the refiner …   Energy terms

• Crude oil —   A mixture of hydrocarbons that exists in liquid phase in natural underground reservoirs and remains liquid at atmospheric pressure after passing through surface separating facilities. Depending upon the characteristics of the crude stream, it… …   Energy terms

• Crude oil input —   The total crude oil put into processing units at refineries.   U.S. Dept. of Energy, Energy Information Administration s Energy Glossary …   Energy terms

• Crude oil losses —   Represents the volume of crude oil reported by petroleum refineries as being lost in their operations. These losses are due to spills, contamination, fires, etc., as opposed to refining processing losses.   U.S. Dept. of Energy, Energy… …   Energy terms

• Crude oil qualities —   Refers to two properties of crude oil, the sulfur content, and API gravity, which affect processing complexity and product characteristics.   U.S. Dept. of Energy, Energy Information Administration s Energy Glossary …   Energy terms

• Crude oil refinery input —   The total crude oil put into processing units at refineries.   U.S. Dept. of Energy, Energy Information Administration s Energy Glossary …   Energy terms

• Components of crude oil — Crude oil is essentially a mixture of many different hydrocarbons, all of varying lengths and complexities. In order to separate the individual components that make up the raw natural resource, the crude oil must be fractionally distillated so… …   Wikipedia

• Refinery input, crude oil —   Total crude oil (domestic plus foreign) input to crude oil distillation units and other refinery processing units (cokers, etc.).   U.S. Dept. of Energy, Energy Information Administration s Energy Glossary …   Energy terms

• Sour crude oil — is crude oil containing the impurity sulfur. It is common to find crude oil containing some impurities. When the total sulfur level in the oil is > 0.5 % the oil is called sour . [cite web|url=http://www.spe.org/spe/jsp/basic/0,,1104… …   Wikipedia

• Sweet crude oil — is a type of petroleum. Petroleum is considered sweet if it contains less than 0.5% sulfur, [BBC News. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/904748.stm Oil markets explained ] . July 14, 2003.] compared to a higher level of sulfur in sour crude… …   Wikipedia

• Manure-derived synthetic crude oil — is a synthetic crude oil chemically engineered (converted) from animal or human manure. Research into the production of manure derived synthetic crude oil began with pig manure in 1996 at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign by the… …   Wikipedia