Because of the natural gas and the oil-refining industry, Europe is almost self-sufficient in LPG.

“The project passed an assessment by the relevant national departments after several hearings and revisions by many distinguished experts in the oil-refining industry and environment protection.”

China abolished its energy ministry in 1993, after years of bureaucratic struggles that pitted it against the coal, electricity and oil-refining industries, which were each their own ministries as well.

Ms. Raptopoulos noted: "Not only is platinum a key industrial metal, especially in the auto and oil-refining industries, but its relationship with gold is often considered an economic indicator.

In Soviet times, Drohobych became an important industrial center in Western Ukraine with highly developed oil-refining industry, machine building, woodworking industry, light industry, and food industry.

With the US oil-refining industry heavily concentrated along the northern Gulf of Mexico coastline, a strategic sector of the economy is perennially vulnerable to the threat of mega-hurricanes.

He claimed that Europe’s oil-refining industry, which employs about 100,000 people directly and represents 18 per cent of global refining capacity, should be rewarded, not punished, for the progress that it has made to enhance energy efficiency.

British Petroleum P.L.C. said yesterday that it would close or sell three refineries, resulting in a $1.1 billion charge in a move that highlights the three-year overcapacity crisis in the oil-refining industry.

Relative to what their size warranted and depending on which type of offence was examined, the oil-refining industry committed crimes at a rate five to nine times higher than would be expected, the motor industry three to seven times, and the pharmaceutical industry was four to six times as criminal as would be predicted.