The word "refinery" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a place where raw materials are transformed into a more refined or pure material. For example: "The oil refinery quickly turned the crude oil into usable fuel."
Nhulunbuy, in remote north-east Arnhem Land, is a town owned and operated by Rio Tinto since 2007, when the mining company bought the Gove bauxite mine and refinery, established in 1963.
And if you take the fighting in Mali and the attack on the refinery, and add it to a list of all the incidents occurring around the globe involving extremist Islamist violence, it is undoubtedly a frightening picture.
A gas refinery in southern Algeria is not the Pentagon.
He said fossil fuel subsidies were endemic in the US: "Every single well, pipeline, refinery, coal and gas plant in the country is heavily subsidised.
The Guardian has found that: A proposed Shell petrochemical refinery in Pennsylvania is in line for $1.6bn £1bnn) in state subsidy, according to a deal struck in 2012 when the company made an annual profit of $26.8bn.
Among other things, the two neighbouring countries decided to build an oil pipeline to link the oilfields in southern Iraq with Iran's vast refinery in Abadan- an agreement overlooked by the American media.
ExxonMobil's upgrades to its Baton Rouge refinery in Louisiana are benefitting from $119m of state subsidy, with the support starting in 2011, when the company made a $41bn profit.
Six months later Rio Tinto announced the curtailment of its bauxite refinery, and with it more than 1,000 job losses.
ExxonMobil's Baton Rouge refinery is the second-largest in the US.
North America is still its single most important region – as well as a key investor base – and yet BP had seriously damaged its reputation with the fire at the Texas City refinery, a nasty pipeline fracture in Alaska and then the Deepwater Horizon accident which created the worst environmental disaster.
In 2013 the company announced it would be mothballing the refinery, slashing its workforce.
