When a Refinery Stops on Purpose
In short: How a refinery turns crude into fuels, why it periodically shuts units down for turnarounds, what happens safely during a shutdown, and how reduced U.S. refinery activity in early 2024 affected inventories.
A 2:05 short film in the series “How Things Work”, narrated by intellect_voice_01.
Sources used in this film: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), “Refinery Outages: Description and Potential Impact on Petroleum Product Prices - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)”; U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), “Reduced refinery activity puts upward pressure on gasoline and diesel prices - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)”; U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), “Refining crude oil - the refining process - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)”; Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Petroleum refining - Cracking, Fractional Distillation, Catalytic Reforming | Britannica”.
Sources used in this film
- U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) — Refinery Outages: Description and Potential Impact on Petroleum Product Prices - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) · View →
- U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) — Reduced refinery activity puts upward pressure on gasoline and diesel prices - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) · View →
- U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) — Refining crude oil - the refining process - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) · View →
- Encyclopaedia Britannica — Petroleum refining - Cracking, Fractional Distillation, Catalytic Reforming | Britannica · View →
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Sources
- Summary by Intellect · source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA): Refinery Outages: Description and Potential Impact on Petroleum Product Prices - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
- Also: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA): Reduced refinery activity puts upward pressure on gasoline and diesel prices - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
- Also: www.eia.gov — Refining crude oil - the refining process - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
- Also: Encyclopaedia Britannica: Petroleum refining - Cracking, Fractional Distillation, Catalytic Reforming | Britannica
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