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).

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 ...

Chinese scientists have developed a new molecular refining method. This technique may significantly reduce energy consumption ...

Fiber-based Fourier-Transform Near-Infrared (FT-NIR) analyzers can be used for real-time crude oil composition analysis, which can replace traditional and time-consuming laboratory methods. FT-NIR ...