192000 Manufacture of refined petroleum products and fossil fuel 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; cracking.

This type includes:

• production of motor fuel: gasoline, kerosene, etc.
• production of fuel: light, medium and heavy fuel oil, refinery gases (e.g. ethane, propane, butane)
• 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 refined petroleum 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)
• manufacture of products from petroleum waste materials (e.g. waste lubricating petroleum oils)

This type also includes:

• manufacture of peat briquettes

• manufacture of hard-coal and lignite fuel briquettes

This type excludes:

• manufacture of solid fuels from biomass, see 162600

• manufacture of liquid biofuels, see 205100