Refinery Operations – US petroleum refinery capacity continues to increase

July 13, 2017

The refinery capacity in the US continues to slowly increase at 2% each year. Last year the “gross input” of crude oil into American refineries reached 16.5 million barrels per day. This is equivalent to the amount of crude oil pushed through a 2″ schedule-40 pipeline circling the earth at the equator. Read more about this here.