Industrial process by which crude oil is processed and refined into more useful products

China during the Cultural Revolution: the Great Leap Forward shown by women steeple jacks working on high towers in oil refineries (left) and on high pylons in the electricity industry (right). Colour lithograph after Xue Jinggui and others, 1974.

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Petroleum refineries

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China during the Cultural Revolution: the Great Leap Forward shown by women steeple jacks working on high towers in oil refineries (left) and on high pylons in the electricity industry (right). Colour lithograph after Xue Jinggui and others, 1974.