Manufacture of refined petroleum products; manufacture of fossil fuel products

This class includes the manufacture of liquid or gaseous fuels or other products from crude petroleum, bituminous minerals or their fractionation products. Petroleum refining involves one or more of the following activities: fractionation; straight distillation of crude oil; and cracking. This class includes: - production of motor fuel: gasoline, kerosene etc. - production of fuel: light, medium and heavy fuel oil, refinery gases such as ethane, propane, butane etc. - manufacture of oil-based lubricating oils or greases, including from waste oil - manufacture of products for the petrochemical industry and for the manufacture of road coverings - manufacture of various refined petroleum products, white spirit, vaseline, paraffin wax, petroleum jelly etc. - manufacture of petroleum briquettes - blending of biofuels, i.e. blending of alcohols with petroleum (e.g. gasohol) - manufacture of products from petroleum waste materials, e.g waste lubricating petroleum oils This class also includes: - manufacture of peat briquettes - manufacture of hard-coal and lignite fuel briquettes

This class excludes: - manufacture of solid fuels from biomass, see 1629 - manufacture of liquid biofuels, see 2029 - extraction and production of natural gas, see 0620