Conoco has invested 750 million in Humber refinery and plans to spend a further 700 million on a program of expansion and improvement in the decade to 2010.
All refineries use distillation to separate crude oil into more useful components.
More sophisticated refineries like Humber also use a variety of advanced conversion processes such as cracking, alkylation, desulphurisation and reforming to improve the chemical structure of feedstocks. All rights reserved. Legal, Privacy, and Security Notices.