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Refineries

There are currently over 700 refineries internationally, processing raw materials into a range of ready to use resources.

With refineries for oil, natural gas, metals, salt and sugar, these sites generally require large industrial complexes to process raw or unprocessed materials into usable and valuable products, fuels and plastics.

Oil refineries typically process hundreds of thousands of barrels of crude oil a day, often operating continuously for months or years to match supply with demand.

There are currently six major oil refineries in Australia – producing about 70% of Australia’s petroleum products. The Kwinana refinery in Western Australia, owned by BP, is the largest of Australia’s six oil refineries – daily producing around 138,000 barrels of crude oil.

Internationally, Australia’s oil production capabilities are dwarfed by other countries, with refineries in Singapore processing around 500,000 barrels, and South Korea’s two facilities processing almost 1 million barrels every day.

Currently all of Australia’s mineral diesel is fully imported.

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