refinery Definition
re·fin·ery (ri fīn′ər ē)
refinery Synonyms
refinery Usage Examples
Converse of object
- blockade: Forget speed cameras & concrete bumps, blockading oil refineries is by far the best traffic calming solution.
- operate: Our Malaysian client operates a large oil refinery in Malaysia.
- build: Activity 8 1. How does an oil company decide where to build a refinery?
- own: Signal owned a refinery in Belgium and a gasoline marketing business there and in Britain using the VIP name.
Adjective modifier
- large: The BP oil refinery in Texas City is the third largest refinery in the US.
- huge: This involved a trip through a huge oil refinery.
- major: West of Bo'ness the south side of the Forth is dominated by the major oil refinery at Grangemouth.
- big: OTTERS, ORCHIDS AND OIL Wildlife is thriving in the shadow of the country's second biggest oil refinery.
- new: Here, he finds the perfect site for Mogul's new refinery.
Modifies a noun
- capacity: The increase in demand for gasoline will give rise to further demands for new refinery capacity.
- complex: The proposed petrochemical project would be integrated with the existing Ras Tanura refinery complex.
- worker: Textile workers in Gilan, bus drivers in Tehran, and refinery workers in Abadan all deserve respect.
- plant: The CPC operates three oil refinery plants with a total refining capacity of 770,000 barrels per day.
- industry: In the past 10 years the refinery industry has had to respond to five sets of new environmental regulations.
Noun used with modifier
- oil: The BP oil refinery in Texas City is the third largest refinery in the US.
- petroleum: A method of biofilm monitoring in the recirculating cooling water system of a petroleum refinery plant.
- sugar: Ten years later, Abraham Lyle started set up his own sugar refinery.
- cane: We operate the largest cane sugar refinery in the world, Thames Refinery in London.
- gasoline: On his conditional release Alireza worked as a mechanical engineer in a gasoline refinery.
- gas: The same can be said of chemical plants, oil and gas refineries, nuclear power plants.
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