WordNet
refining industry
n. an industry that produces and delivers oil and oil products [syn: oil industry, oil business]
Usage examples of "refining industry".
But his core problem still remained: his main customer was still Russia or Russian client-states of the Commonwealth of Independent States, and their oil refining industry was one of the worst in the world, hopelessly outdated and inefficient.
It'd take them fifty years, under our direction, to build up a smelting and refining industry even based on atomic power.