Yes, crude oil can contain fractions all the way down to methane and butane, I know. I drive past a fractional distillation column, however, every once in a while.

heated crude oil enters a tall fractionating column close fractionating column Piece of apparatus in which mixtures separate during fractional distillation. or tower, which is hot at the bottom ...

The refinery heats crude oil until most of it evaporates and floats up a distillation column. What's left behind is a thick sludge of the heaviest hydrocarbons.

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The column, measuring 10 metres wide and 66 metres in height weighs 1,300 tonnes, making it among the biggest single crude distillation column in the refining industry.

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Crude oil is a finite resource; petrol and other fuels are produced from it using fractional distillation. ‘Cracking’ is used to convert long alkanes into shorter, more useful hydrocarbons ...

Energy demands in crude oil processing Separating crude oil into products such as gasoline, diesel and heating oil currently relies on distillation, which consumes substantial amounts of energy. This ...

Separating crude oil into products such as gasoline, diesel, and heating oil is an energy-intensive process that accounts for about 6 percent of the world’s CO 2 emissions. Most of that energy goes ...