How to Use refinery in a Sentence

refinery

noun
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  • Yeah, well, our school was right in the middle of the refinery.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The only that is not, in the tenth spot, is BP’s oil refinery along Lake Michigan.
    — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The port, the refinery and the trade zone are among the biggest infrastructure projects in the continent.
    — Tom Page, CNN, 17 Nov. 2022
  • In Abadan, a city once home to the world's largest oil refinery, videos also showed workers walking off the job.
    — Jon Gambrell, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Particles mirror the light of the sun setting on the horizon while homes and refineries on the west side shape the skyline.
    — Alixel Cabrera, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Aug. 2023
  • And looming in the background, dotting the horizon like the bones of long dead dinosaurs, are the refineries themselves.
    — Matt Monagle, Chron, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The Utes is also proposing to built their own refinery on its reservation in the area.
    — Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2023
  • As the parade was coming to an end, drones hit an oil refinery in the Ural Mountains, 750 miles east of Moscow.
    — Anatoly Kurmanaev Nanna Heitmann, New York Times, 9 May 2024
  • The paper mill is gone now, the steel mill is about to close, and many of the oil refineries are shifting to renewable energy.
    — Calmatters, The Mercury News, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The company also says oil prices would rise and refineries would be put at risk.
    — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 11 July 2024
  • This site, south of Perth, was once BP’s biggest oil refinery in Australia.
    — Max Bearak Giacomo D’orlando, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2023
  • The Suncor refinery provides about one-third of the gasoline used in Colorado.
    — Noelle Phillips, The Denver Post, 28 May 2024
  • The same is true of the Russia-Ukraine war, where oil refineries deep inside Russia have been hit by drone attacks.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 10 July 2024
  • According to the statement, no coke dust escaped the refinery grounds.
    — Will McCarthy, The Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2024
  • The few refineries that do produce SAF sell it in small quantities.
    — Jaclyn Trop, Robb Report, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The ability of solar fuels to produce fuels was shown to work in the year 2019 in a mini refinery on the roof of ETH Zurich.
    — Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 25 June 2024
  • Much of that comes from oil and gas entering and leaving the refineries that cluster around Houston.
    — Xander Peters, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2024
  • Experts say the prospect of a recession drove down those prices from the June peak, and kept them from rebounding above $4 when the refinery issues cropped up.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN, 23 Oct. 2022
  • This approach gives Kyiv more bang for its buck, hurting more than just striking the refineries at random.
    — Vasco Cotovio, CNN, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Smith said there should be some relief for prices in Alaska and other Western states in the coming weeks, as the refinery issues ease.
    — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Some of those write-offs involved a power plant in Citrus County, Fla., and a refinery in Europe.
    — Paul O'Donnell, Dallas News, 11 Sep. 2023
  • What’s more, crude oil needs to be processed into fuel in a refinery, and at least five U.S. plants have closed permanently in the last two years.
    — Alana Semuels, Time, 22 Dec. 2022
  • The fire broke out late last week in the hamlet of Mexicaltongo, in the township of Jilotepec, not far from a major refinery.
    — Fox News, 4 Jan. 2023
  • While working at the refinery, Motley longed to be a filmmaker.
    — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 14 Apr. 2024
  • Back then, Graves worked at an oil refinery in California and fished for sockeye salmon in Alaska to raise funds for the restaurant.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 16 Nov. 2023
  • As demand soared, the industry rushed to start new mines, and refineries increased their capacity to process the ore.
    — Clifford Krauss, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2023
  • In the years leading up to 2006, refineries had to invest billions of dollars into equipment to remove the sulfur to meet the new ULSD standards.
    — Robert Rapier, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Perhaps the bigger risk is a severe hurricane that disrupts oil refineries in the US Gulf Coast.
    — Cnn.com, The Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2024
  • In November 2023, Russia signed an agreement with Mali to construct the country’s largest gold refinery.
    — Christopher Michael Faulkner, The Conversation, 9 Aug. 2024
  • The measure, dubbed H.R. 1, would sharply increase U.S. oil, gas and coal production and ease permitting restrictions that delay pipelines, refineries and other fossil fuel projects.
    — Maxine Joselow, Washington Post, 18 July 2024

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