Talk:Petroleum product

This article confuses the products from oil refineries and petrochemical plants. The name of this article should instead have been Refinery products from oil. These products are only derived from a fractional destillation.

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Fractional distillation is certainly not the only process which occurs in an oil refinery, as a review of the Oil refinery article will show. All the products mentioned in this article, with the following exceptions, could be and often are produced in oil refineries.

Exceptions:

1. plastics mentioned in the introduction (typically produced in other chemical plants from petrochemicals from oil refineries)
2. the various additives for the liquid fuels
3. in the "Lubricants" entry, the viscosity "stabilizers" added to the lubricants, as well as some other possible additives not mentioned. The major fraction of the majority of lubricants come from petroleum products produced at some refineries. Some refineries may not find it worthwhile to engage in lubricant production. There are many kinds of lubricants, and some lubricants do not originate from petroleum. The base of many synthetic motor oils is produced from certain petrochemicals in other chemical plants.
4. not all refineries engage in sulfuric acid production, and the oxygen needed to oxidize the sulfur to sulfuric acid comes from non-petroleum sources.
5. in the petrochemicals paragraph at the end, a number of the items mentioned are not produced at an oil refinery itself but from petroleum products from an oil refinery sent to a petrochemical plant, and then perhaps to yet another chemical plant. I think this is explained in that paragraph. This discussion elaborates on the plastics briefly mentioned in the introduction.

H Padleckas 00:45, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Oil category reorganization

I'd like comment on a discussion here. I'm trying to clean up the category structure. Thanks. --THE FOUNDERS INTENT ^TALK 12:06, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Merge proposal

This article and petrochemical are both aimed at providing information on very closely related concepts that are both imperfectly defined. There is no official or even unofficial term "petroleum product" any more than there is a "pharmaceutical product" or a "biomass product." The article contains tidbits of useful knowledge that should probably be distributed over petrochemical and oil refinery#Major products. The article petrochemical needs refreshing.--Smokefoot (talk) 16:43, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

Assuming this came before the addition of the sentence "This article focuses on organic compounds that are not burned as fuel (see also Petroleum product)." in Petrochemical. This sentence makes it a sub-category within Petroleum product, would it not? We could still merge it, just put it in a lower level. -TheAzion (talk) 14:49, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

Petroleum products are everything but petrochemicals and represent the bulk and most valued part of petroleum. This topic differs from petrochemical. --Smokefoot (talk) 12:18, 12 September 2012 (UTC)