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Meanings of petroleum refinery in English

Portuguese
refinaria
Catalan
refineria de petroli
Spanish
refineria petrolifera
Wikidata

A refinery for petroleum.

refinaria
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Examples for "oil refinery"
Examples for "oil refinery"
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Hundreds more jobs are still under threat at the site's oil refinery.
BBC
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The director of the national oil refinery was also on the list.
Reuters
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Chevron said its Pascagoula, Mississippi, oil refinery operated normally through the storm.
Reuters
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Six rockets landed early on Thursday near the oil refinery and port.
Reuters
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You didn't get to blow up an oil refinery when reading Atonement.
The Irish Times
Usage of petroleum refinery in English
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A general view shows the Philadelphia Energy Solutions petroleum refinery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania December 4, 2014.
Reuters
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He also spoke about his latest venture to build a $9bn petroleum refinery in his native Nigeria - and avoiding corruption in the process.
BBC
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The chief industries developed here, are petroleum refineries and leather factories.
By Water to the Columbian Exposition
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The company has also developed new ways to use vegetable-based oils in petroleum refineries for the production of diesel.
Reuters
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Those are among 16 petroleum refineries that Valero owns in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Aruba.
Reuters
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Slideshow (5 images) Petrobras has found new ways to refine vegetable-based oils together with diesel in its petroleum refineries.
Reuters
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Petroleum refineries along the U.S. Gulf Coast - more than 40 percent of U.S. capacity - appeared to have survived the storm unscathed.
Reuters
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Petroleum refineries along the U.S. Gulf Coast, which make up more than 40 percent of U.S. capacity, also appeared to be largely undamaged.
Reuters
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There are a dozen petroleum refineries in Canada, and the annual outturn of kerosene is about 200,000 barrels of 45 imperial gallons per annum.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887
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