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How Much Does an Asphalt Driveway Cost?

An asphalt driveway is a good, affordable option for many homeowners versus more-expensive concrete. We break down asphalt driveway costs.

How to Identify Different Types of Grease

Greases are primarily classified by their thickeners, the most common being metallic soaps. Others include bentonite clay, silica gel, polyurea and inorganic thickeners.Soap‑based greases are produced

Gas Pipe owners get 3 years in prison for mislabeling spice products that created 'zombie...

The father-and-daughter owners of the Dallas-based Gas Pipe smoke shop retail chain were each sentenced Tuesday to three years in federal prison...

How Often To Change Synthetic Oil

3 Questions to Ask Your Asphalt Paving Contractor

When you are looking to hire an asphalt paving contractor, there are a few things you should look out for.

Self-Healing Asphalt Could Change Your Driving Experience [VIDEO]

Could potholes go the way of the Ford Pinto? Engineering professor Erik Schlangen may have created a way to make that happen with self-healing asphalt.

Oil refineries are making a windfall — so why do they keep closing?

Oil refineries across the country are being retired and converted to other uses as owners balk at making costly upgrades and America’s pivot away from fossil fuels leaves their future uncertain

Magnetrol® Visits Oil Refinery to Discuss Level Measurement Challenges

Magnetrol® is always looking to expand its knowledge about critical industry applications. Read about what we learned at our recent visit to an oil refinery.

Getting your nails done? Wait! You might be safer off working in an oil refinery!

Levels of cancer-causing chemicals in nail salons are higher than in oil refineries and automobile garages, says a study. The news about chemicals in nail polish is not great either.

Oil refineries are making a windfall. Why do they keep closing?

Companies see only headaches on the horizon for refineries, undercutting the White House push to boost production.

How U.S. regulators allow ethanol plants to pollute more than oil refineries

U.S. ethanol plants produce more than double the climate-damaging pollution than the nation’s oil refineries, according to a Reuters data analysis.

Husky Energy oil refinery rebuild worries community

Husky Energy will continue using hydrogen fluoride, a highly toxic chemical, at the Superior, Wis., refinery that exploded and burned a year ago.

Why Is The US Losing Oil Refining Capacity?

The U.S. energy policy is clear about its intention to phase out fossil fuels...

Explainer: Why is there a worldwide oil-refining crunch?

Drivers around the world are feeling pain at the pump with fuel prices soaring, and costs are surging for heating buildings, power generation and industrial production.

Oil refining what do we get from it

We get thousands or products from a barrel of oil, check out how we get all the different products from a single barrel of oil. Almost everything is tied to oil refining.

How Oil Refining Works

Despite the dangers, oil refineries are essential to society in its current form. Learn how crude oil is converted into everything from butane to gasoline.

US Refineries are set to become the Gem of the Oil Industry

we look at how Middle Eastern geopolitical issues are effecting oil production, how the oil and gas industry is developing in the US, and how a shift in natural gas prices has turned

Occidental Petroleum Is Ideal If You Expect Higher Oil Prices

Occidental Petroleum is extremely leveraged to the price of oil. It is thus the ideal stock for the investors who have great confidence in higher oil prices in

How a massive refinery shortage is contributing to high gas prices

Oil refineries have lost capacity over recent years, making it nearly impossible to increase supply and stabilize gas prices at the pump.

What Are The Differences Between Synthetic And Petroleum Oils?