Gasoil
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Gasoil is an intermediate product in an oil refinery that is heavier than diesel but lighter than lube oil or residual fuel. It can be a feedstock to make lubricating oils such as motor oil, or it is often converted into lighter, more valuable products such as gasoline or kerosene by a cracking process. Heavier gasoils produced by vacuum distillation called vacuum gasoils are usually feedstock for catalytic cracking. Lighter gasoils from the main crude distillation column that runs at near atmospheric pressure are often called atmospheric gasoils and are fed to a hydrocracker.
