About 90% of the products from petroleum refineries are
fuels. These include gasoline, distillate fuel oil (diesel, home heating oil, industrial
fuel oil), jet fuels (kerosene and naphtha types), residual fuel oil (bunker fuel, boiler
fuel), liquefied petroleum gases (methane, propane, ethane, butane), coke, and kerosene.
Non-fuel products include asphalt, road oil, lubricants, naphtha solvents, waxes, non-fuel
coke, and petrochemicals (ethylene, propylene, butylene, benzene, xylene). By volume,
refineries produce more gasoline than any other product. In 1998 refineries supplied about
19 million barrels per day of refined products. [DOE/EIA 1999]
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