These are compounds consisting only of hydrogen and carbon.
Light ends/light distillates include:
Refining crude oil creates a plethora of products which can be broadly classified as light distillates, middle distillates, heavy distillates and other products.
Light ends/light distillates include:
- Fuel gases - methane, also propane and butane
- Naptha - a flammable liquid hydrocarbon mixture
- Gasoline (or petrol) - a high-volume, profitable product
Middle distillates include:
- Kerosene - widely used in aviation (formerly used profusely in lamp-lighting)
- Specific Fuel oils - e.g. diesel
Heavy distillates include:
- Heavy fuel oil - also known as bunker fuel or residual fuel oil, significantly more viscous than diesel
- Motor oil /engine oil
- Paraffin wax
- Tar
- Bitumen - an extremely viscous constituent of petroleum. In American English it is commonly called asphalt. Bitumen is also naturally occurring e.g. in the Pitch Lake in Trinidad and Tobago (bitumen is also known as pitch)
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