Talk:Petroleum product

Petroleum products are organic compounds made in oil refineries. They result from refining (changing) crude oil (also called Petroleum) into more useful products.

Well-known petroleum products include:

fuels Gasoline Diesel fuel Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) fuel oil Kerosene Asphalt (mainly used in asphalt concrete) Paraffin wax Tar Petrochemicals Plastics In addition, oil-refineries also sell other things that come form the refining process, most notably

Propane and other gases Sulfur (and Sulfuric acid) Lubricants for machines with moving parts Different kind of industrial waxes