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Getting the oil out of the ground is only the beginning.

The common refinery might include:

* a desalter unit

* an atmospheric distillation unit

* a vacuum distillation unit

* a naphtha hydrotreater unit

* a catalytic reformer unit

* a distillate hydrotreater unit

* a fluid catalytic cracking unit

* a hydrocracker unit

* a coking unit

* an alkylation unit

* a dimerization unit

* an isomerization unit

* a steam reforming unit

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