also known as refining petroleum processing industry

Petroleum refining industry is as raw gasoline , kerosene , diesel and other petroleum products, energy industry , responsible for the community to provide fuel Dynamic Energy of the task, but also bears a lower consumption , energy consumption, improve resource utilization of responsibility , with other energy industrial irreplaceable role of the national energy security ,  oil equipment  development and building a conservation -oriented society has a direct impact . [ 1 ] World oil refining industry developed steadily , in 2007 , the world's total refining capacity of more than 4.265 billion tons / year, compared with 2006 's 4.259 billion tons / year slightly increased by 6.5 million tons / year , an increase of only 0.15%. Beginning in 2002, continued the upward trend , becoming the sixth consecutive annual increase ,  oil refinery  reaching record highs. China's oil refining industry development has three phases: the first phase, from 1863 first imported kerosene, oil self-sufficiency by 1963 , with the full realization that spans 100 years ; the second stage, from the early 1960s, 90 end of the decade , China's oil refining industry in the production scale and technology have achieved a great leap into the ranks of the world's great powers refining ; third stage, that is, from the beginning of the 21st century to about 2020 , from refinery to refinery power big leap.