The new process follows a similar strategy used by the water industry for desalination. MIT chemical engineers make potentially game-changing breakthrough with crude oil: 'Creates a new way to apply ...

Crude oil gathers in the Chaudière River on July 9, ... Safety Board issues its report, it is going to be hundreds of pages, and a huge amount of it will be devoted to chemical composition ...

The process begins with crude oil extraction, ... Afterward, the gasoline is subjected to refining, which removes impurities and adjusts its chemical composition to improve performance.

Crude-to-chemicals offer a higher yield of olefins than traditional refining; it is anticipated that 60-80% chemical yield per barrel of crude oil against only 10-25% in conventional methods for ...

By 2025, the partners expect to have a facility that will make petrochemicals—9 million metric tons (t) of them—directly from 400,000 barrels (bbl) per day of Arabian light crude oil.

Nature has its own chemical processes to minimize oil's impact in seawater ... spilling more than 20,000 gallons of crude oil over a 4 ... to change the physical and chemical composition of oil.

Sour crude is a type of crude oil known for its relatively high sulfur content. It is viewed as a less desirable form of crude oil.