192000 Manufacture of refined petroleum products


This type includes the manufacture of liquid or gaseous fuels or other products from crude petroleum, bituminous minerals or their fractionation products. Petroleum refining involves one or more of the following activities: fractionation, straight distillation of crude oil and cracking.

This type includes:

  • production of motor fuel: gasoline, kerosene, etc.
  • production of fuel: light, medium and heavy fuel oil, refinery gases such as ethane, propane, butane, etc.
  • manufacture of oil-based lubricating oils or greases, including from waste oil
  • manufacture of products for the petrochemical industry and for the manufacture of road coverings
  • manufacture of various products: white spirit, Vaseline, paraffin wax, petroleum jelly, etc.
  • manufacture of petroleum briquettes
  • blending of biofuels, i.e. blending of alcohols with petroleum (e.g. gasohol)

This type also includes:

  • manufacture of peat briquettes
  • manufacture of hard-coal and lignite fuel briquettes

butane; coal, agglomeration; diesel; ethane; fuels; gas of refinery; gasoline; heating oil; kerosene; lignite, agglomeration; lubricating grease; motors fuels; paraffin; propane; refinement of oil; refinery of oil; road coverings; tar; white spirit

Codification rules

Priority in case of multiple activities

If production, repair and sales activities are carried out, the priority is as follows :

- if production and sale: production takes priority
- if production and repair: production takes priority
- if repair and sale: repair takes priority

Outsourced activities (outsourcing)

There are several types of outsourcing, the enterprise may outsource::
• Part of a production process, classification: production
• All of a production process
o & owner of commodities, classification: production
o & non-owner of commodities, classification: section G, M or N :

For a construction enterprise:
• Part of the construction activities, classification: construction - section F

Further information:
- Introduction to NOGA 2008