Noun
The building and apparatus for refining or purifying, esp. metals and sugar.
A furnace in which cast iron is refined by the action of a blast on the molten metal.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe tallest building in the world is now in Dubai, the biggest factory in the world is in China, the largest oil refinery is in India, the largest investment fund in the world is in Abu Dhabi, the largest Ferris wheel in the world is in Singapore. Fareed Zakaria
Mukesh has to his credit the direction and leading the creation of the world's largest petroleum refinery at Jamnagar, India with a capacity of 540,000 barrels per day integrated with petrochemicals, power generation, port and related infrastructure at an investment of 25,000 crores. Mukesh Ambani
Liberals in Congress have spent the past three decades pandering to environmental extremists. The policies they have put in place are in large part responsible for the energy crunch we are seeing today. We have not built a refinery in this country for 30 years. Marsha Blackburn
But had they not paid that advance we would have lost much more, we would have started to go and look for the product all over again, the refinery would have stopped working. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme. Sherwood Boehlert
If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available. T. Boone Pickens