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Petroleum Refineries

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in refining crude petroleum into refined petroleum. Petroleum refining involves one or more of the following activities: (1) fractionation; (2) straight distillation of crude oil; and (3) cracking. It has no schema of its own: companies here are mapped on the Manufacturing schema, and what it does not cover is recorded as gaps.

Baseline
Manufacturing v2
Inherited from
Manufacturing
Mapped on the schema
0 of 0 placed here
Primitives
57 in 8 parts
Last updated
Nov 2, 2026

The numbers for this industry

United States · 2023 · NAICS 324110
Establishments
143
Employees
55,064
Annual payroll
$8.9B
Payroll per employee
$162.1K
Establishments by number of employees
  • 1-412
  • 5-96
  • 10-195
  • 1000+13
  • 20-4913
  • 50-996
  • 100-24917
  • 250-49944
  • 500-99927

Source: US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023 (national file), employees as of mid-March 2023, payroll for the year; published 2025-06-26. Coded on NAICS 2017. Withheld cells read as not published.

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