Angola plans to build an oil refinery in Lobito in the coming years.

The Anglo-Persian Oil Company built their first pipeline terminus oil refinery in Abadan, starting in 1909 and completing it in 1913 ( see Abadan Refinery ).

Much of the city, including the oil refinery which was the world's largest refinery with capacity of 680, 000 barrels per day, was badly damaged or destroyed by the siege and by bombing.

After the war, the biggest concern was the rebuilding of Abadan's oil refinery.

" The Abadan oil refinery was featured on the reverse side of Iran's 100-rial banknotes printed in 1965 and from 1971 to 1973.

Oil refining survived the shocks of the 1990s because of a continuing export market and the purchase of the Burgas refinery by the Russian oil giant LUKoil.

Cameroon exports some food products to Equatorial Guinea and imports oil from Equatorial Guinea for its refinery at nearby Limbe.

Due to high operating costs, the country ’ s sole oil refinery, at Assab, was closed

The Sogara oil refinery at Port-Gentil is the sole refinery in Gabon.

In that same year, a major oil pipeline was constructed from Caddo-Pine Island Field to a refinery built and operated by Standard Oil Company of Louisiana in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

An oil exploration consortium consisting of the Venezuelan state oil company, Venezuelan Petroleum, Inc. ( Petróleos de Venezuela, S. A .-- PDVSA ), Cambria Oil, and Texaco expressed interest in the construction of a refinery at Puerto Castilla in 1993, with production aimed at the local market.

In addition, the Albanians sought investment funds to develop light industries and an oil refinery, while the Yugoslavs wanted the Albanians to concentrate on agriculture and raw-material extraction.

An oil refinery is located near Kingston converts crude petroleum obtained from Venezuela into gasoline and other products.

General National Maritime Transport Company, which owns a large refinery in Switzerland, also halted oil shipments to Switzerland.

Used lubricant may also be used as refinery feedstock to become part of crude oil.

Around 1964 Fayed entered a close relationship with Francois Duvalier and became interested in the construction of a Fayed-Duvalier oil refinery in Haiti.

As well as its downstream interests, Mobil was active in the North Sea and operated an oil refinery in Coryton ( opened in 1953 ), on the Thames estuary.

ConocoPhillips along with PDVSA operate the Merey Sweeny ( bpd ) delayed coker, vacuum tower and related facilities at ConocoPhillips ' refinery in Sweeny, Texas, U. S. A. for processing and upgrading heavy sour Merey crude oil.

An oil refinery in Mina-Al-Ahmadi, Kuwait

On February 24, 2010 the Po river was contaminated by an oil spill coming from a refinery in Villasanta through the Lambro, the Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata news agency has estimated that the spill is in the neighborhood of 600, 000 liters.

The line carried only refined products, including gasoline, gas oil, kerosene, and aviation fuel obtained either from the refinery at the port or from import-holding facilities there.

However, in July 2012, Tajik Aluminium Company ( TALCO ) and Azerbaijani company Azeraluminium signed a cooperation agreement during the official visit of President of the Republic of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon to the Republic of Azerbaijan for the construction of oil refinery in the south of Tajikistan.

A comparison of the development of Alberta's less oil and gas-endowed neighbours, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, reveals the role petroleum has played.

In one year, the farm yielded over $ 1, 000, 000 in cash dividends, and petroleum from oil wells on the property sold profitably.

It is almost totally supported by exports of crude oil and natural gas, with revenues from the petroleum sector accounting for over half of GDP.

Despite its toxicity, a considerable fraction of petroleum oil entering marine systems is eliminated by the hydrocarbon-degrading activities of microbial communities, in particular by a remarkable recently discovered group of specialists, the so-called hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria ( HCCB ).

Pollution can occur from a number of sources: garbage and industrial debris ; the transportation of petroleum in tankers, increasing the probability of large oil spills ; small oil spills created by large and small vessels, which flush bilge water into the ocean.

The major economic use of carbon other than food and wood is in the form of hydrocarbons, most notably the fossil fuel methane gas and crude oil ( petroleum ).

There may be petroleum deposits along the country's northern border with Chad ( Two billion barrels of oil are present in private estimates ).

Most cement kilns today use coal and petroleum coke as primary fuels, and to a lesser extent natural gas and fuel oil.

When disaggregated, only petroleum and non-petroleum groupings showed different results: a country with relatively low levels of dependence on petroleum exports is at slightly less risk, while a high-level of dependence on oil as an export results in slightly more risk of a civil war than national dependence on another primary commodity.

* Combustion of fuels such as wood, coal and oil petroleum

Of oil merchants in Baku Çelebi writes: " By Allah's decree petroleum bubbles up out of the ground, but in the manner of hot springs, pools of water are formed with petroleum congealed on the surface like cream.

Merchants wade into these pools and collect petroleum in ladles and fill goatskins with it, these oil merchants then sell them in different regions.

The word " oil " is also used for any substance that does not mix with water and has a greasy feel, such as petroleum ( or crude oil ), heating oil, and essential oils, regardless of its chemical structure.

Crude oil ( petroleum ) fluoresces in a range of colors, from dull-brown for heavy oils and tars through to bright-yellowish and bluish-white for very light oils and condensates.

crude oil 270 km ; petroleum products 14 km

Greenpeace is also critical of extracting petroleum from oil sands and has used direct action to block the oil sand operations at Athabasca, Canada.

The country has never been a producer of petroleum and depends on imported oil to fill much of its energy needs.

It carries a particularly heavy traffic of petroleum and petroleum products from the oil fields of the Persian Gulf and Indonesia.

As Sandburg said at the time: `` It is as ancient as the medieval European ballads brought to the Appalachian Mountains, it is as modern as skyscrapers, the Volstead Act, and the latest oil well gusher ''.

Now, the machine has been improved to a point where it is generally more economical than oil heat at temperatures down to 15 degrees.

Its oil for heating is metered monthly to each home from a line that starts at a central storage point.

The amount paid by the oil company to Tri-State for the use of its oil distribution system and the privilege of supplying all the homes, is subject to negotiation but naturally must be profitable to both parties.

For this first development the supplier signing the lease is a major oil company but in turn the deal is being transferred for operation to its local fueloil distributor.

There must be a restriction in the deed to provide that the customer may not be charged more than the current market price for the oil, an obvious precaution, since the account is permanently wedded, just like with gas or electricity.

Ritter, the builder, is convinced that the total cost of all the heating systems plus the oil distribution system is no greater than would be gas heating systems in the houses plus their lines and meters.

Of course, if you want to throw all caution to the winds and rent an Imperial or Cadillac limousine just for you and your bride, you'll have a memorable tour, but it won't be cheap, and it is not recommended unless you own a producing oil well or you've had a winner in the Irish Sweepstakes.

Related to micelle formation is the technologically important ability of detergent actives to congregate at oil - water interfaces in such a manner that the polar ( or ionized ) end of the molecule is directed towards the aqueous phase and the hydrocarbon chain towards the oily phase.

Whereas the usual organic surface-active agent is strongly sorbed at oil - water interfaces, the highly charged ions are most strongly sorbed at interfaces between water and insoluble materials exhibiting an ionic structure ( see Table 26-2 on p. 1678 ).

( It makes no real difference that Braque's collage is on paper and eked out in charcoal, while Picasso's is on canvas and eked out in oil.

It was because of this chain-reaction as much as for any other reason -- that is, because of the growing independence of the planar unit in collage as a shape -- that the identity of depicted objects, or at least parts of them, re-emerged in Braque's and Picasso's papiers colles and continued to remain more conspicuous there -- but only as flattened silhouettes -- than in any of their paintings done wholly in oil before the end of 1913.

This brown is sometimes so rich in medium as to appear to be oil paint.

The medical device pirate of today, of course, is a far more sophisticated operator than his predecessor of yesteryear -- the gallus-snapping hawker of snake oil and other patent medicines.

In the United States, where half of the world crop is grown, soybeans are processed for their edible oil.

This nondrying oil, however, is now more in demand than ever before as a fine lubricant, as a constituent of fluids for hydraulically operated equipment, and as a source of chemicals to make plastics.

The Belgians were interested primarily in the economic development of the Congo, which is rich in copper, tin, cobalt, manganese, zinc, and uranium, and cotton and palm oil.

And most of all it is not having the only man you could love, whether he drives a bread truck or delivers the mail or checks the berry crates down at the sheds, or owns seventeen oil wells and six diamond mines, for if you are anybody what he is or does makes no difference if he is the one.