Refining definition

Refining means removing or separating a desirable product from raw or contaminated materials by distillation or physical, mechanical, or chemical processes.
Refining means the process of converting a natural resource to an intermediate or finished product, including the treatment of water to be sold at retail.
Refining means the processing, conditioning or preparation for the ultimately final sale of fuels.

Examples of Refining in a sentence

  • Refining a compilation of discrete implementation strategies and determining their importance and feasibility.

  • The adjusted results of the Refining & Chemicals and Marketing & Services segments are presented according to the replacement cost method.

  • In the case of the Refining and Petrochemicals segment, the CGU´s correspond to each one of the refineries of the group and for the segment of Transportation each pipeline is taken as an independent CGU.

  • Refining and Marketing transfers chemical feedstock, propylene and isobutane to Petrochemicals and Petrochemicals transfers various by-products to Refining and Marketing.

  • The operation of the Ecopetrol Business Group is performed through three business segments: 1) Exploration and production, 2) Transport and logistics, and 3) Refining, petrochemical and biofuels.


More Definitions of Refining

Refining means the processing of raw sugars into white sugars as defined in points 1 and 2 of Section A of Part II of Annex II to Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013, and any equivalent technical operation applied to bulk white sugar.
Refining means the process of converting a natural
Refining means the processing of raw sugars into white sugars as defined in points 1 and 2 of Part II of Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007, and any equivalent technical operation applied to bulk white sugar.
Refining means the process of converting a natural resource to an intermediate or finished product.
Refining means a process by which an expressed vegetable oil or a solvent-extracted oil is deacidified—
Refining means the process of converting a natural resource to an intermediate
Refining means the transformation of crude oil into finished or partly finished petroleum products using different processes of distillation, cracking and reforming or other methods of altering the molecular structure of the crude oil;