Description for 2911: Petroleum Refining

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Division D: Manufacturing | Major Group 29: Petroleum Refining And Related Industries

Industry Group 291: Petroleum Refining

2911 Petroleum Refining

Establishments primarily engaged in producing gasoline, kerosene, distillate fuel oils, residual fuel oils, and lubricants, through fractionation or straight distillation of crude oil, redistillation of unfinished petroleum derivatives, cracking or other processes. Establishments of this industry also produce aliphatic and aromatic chemicals as by-products. Establishments primarily engaged in producing natural gasoline from natural gas are classified in mining industries. Those manufacturing lubricating oils and greases by blending and compounding purchased materials are included in Industry 2992. Establishments primarily re-refining used lubricating oils are classified in Industry 2992. Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing cyclic and acyclic organic chemicals are classified in Major Group 28.

Acid oil, produced in petroleum refineries
Alkylates, produced in petroleum refineries
Aromatic chemicals, made in petroleum refineries
Asphalt and asphaltic materials: liquid and solid produced in
Benzene, produced in petroleum refineries
Butadiene, produced in petroleum refineries
Butylene, produced in petroleum refineries
Coke, petroleum produced in petroleum refineries
Ethylene, produced in petroleum refineries
Fractionation products of crude petroleum, produced in petroleum
Gas, refinery or still oil produced in petroleum refineries
Gases, liquefied petroleum produced in petroleum refineries
Gasoline blending plants
Gasoline, except natural gasoline
Greases, lubricating: produced in petroleum refineries
Hydrocarbon fluid, produced in petroleum refineries
Jet fuels
Kerosene
Mineral jelly, produced in petroleum refineries
Mineral oils, natural: produced in petroleum refineries
Mineral waxes, natural: produced in petroleum refineries
Naphtha, produced in petroleum refineries
Naphthenic acids, produced in petroleum refineries
Oils, partly refined sold for rerunning produced in petroleum
Oils fuel, lubricating, and illuminating produced in petroleum
Paraffin wax, produced in petroleum refineries
Petrolatums, produced in petroleum refineries
Petroleum refining
Propylene, produced in petroleum refineries
Road materials, bituminous: produced in petroleum refineries
Road oils, produced in petroleum refineries
Solvents, produced in petroleum refineries
Tar or residuum, produced in petroleum refineries

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