Can crude oil be bought and sold privately?

In China, oil is a state monopoly resource, and no individual or enterprise may exploit oil or sell crude oil, otherwise it will bear legal responsibility. Next, I will introduce you to whether crude oil can be bought and sold privately and related knowledge, hoping to help you solve the corresponding problems.

1. Can crude oil be bought and sold privately?

Private reselling of crude oil or oil is an illegal act, which refers to the sale of crude oil or oil without permission. Therefore, if oil selling is suspected of illegal business operation, it should be punished according to the punishment provisions of illegal business operation. The operation of crude oil and refined oil needs to obtain the corresponding administrative license. If the circumstances of operating refined oil without a license are serious, it will constitute the crime of illegal operation.

Second, the storage of crude oil.

The main storage methods of crude oil and petroleum products are bulk storage and bulk storage. Bulk storage refers to storage in standard barrels, while bulk storage refers to storage in oil tanks. Oil tanks can be divided into metal tanks and non-metal tanks, and metal tanks can be divided into vertical tanks and horizontal tanks. According to different construction methods of oil depots, bulk crude oil or petroleum products can also be stored on the ground, semi-underground and underground, water-sealed caverns and underwater. But no matter which storage method is adopted, the storage of crude oil, especially petroleum products, should meet the following basic requirements:

(1) Anti-deterioration

In the process of oil storage, in order to ensure the quality of oil products, attention must be paid to reducing the influence of temperature, air and moisture, sunlight and metals on oil products.

② Reduce losses.

The usual practices of oil depots are: selecting floating roof oil tanks and internal floating roof oil tanks; The breather valve baffle is selected below the breather valve of the oil tank; Spray water to cool down.

(3) Improve the safety of oil storage.

Because oil products have high fire risk and explosion risk, it is necessary to reduce the explosion sensitivity of oil products and apply materials with good flame retardant properties.

Third, crude oil refining.

Crude oil contains various hydrocarbons. Petroleum refining is to separate each component for further utilization. Chemists use the following steps to refine oil:

1. The oldest and most commonly used method to separate various components (called fractions) in crude oil is to use the difference of boiling points. This process is called fractionation. The basic method is to heat crude oil and evaporate it before liquefying steam.

2. The newer technology is to obtain other fractions by chemical treatment of some fractions, which is called conversion. For example, chemical treatment can break longer carbon chains into shorter ones. In this way, if there is a great demand for gasoline, the refinery can convert diesel fuel into gasoline.

3. The refinery must treat the distillate to remove impurities.

4. The refinery mixes different fractions (treated and untreated) to produce the required products. For example, gasoline with different octane numbers can be made from mixtures with different chain lengths. Products will be stored on site until they are sent to various sales points (such as gas stations, airports and chemical plants). In addition to producing all kinds of products with petroleum as raw material, refineries must also deal with the wastes produced in the production process in order to reduce air pollution and water pollution as much as possible.

According to the law, it is illegal for private people to resell crude oil or oil, which means selling crude oil or oil without permission, so selling oil is suspected of illegal business.