And it does not require a refinery.

In 1998, the Usina Trapiche sugar refinery petitioned the state to take over the land. The islanders say that the refinery then followed up its petition by destroying their homes and small farms and threatening further violence to those who did not leave.

Now that same kind of software could destroy an oil refinery or a pharmaceutical factory or a semiconductor plant.

As China's exports of petroleum products have a huge impact on the Asian market, teapot refinery got more attentions.

But what's really, to me, frightening about the picture and about this billboard is the refinery in the background.

Japanese oil companies expressed vigilance to the rise of Chinese oil companies, especially known as the teapot of China's small independent refinery.

Core Tip Japanese oil companies expressed vigilance to the rise of Chinese oil companies, especially known as the teapot of China's small independent refinery.

If the Cienfuegos refinery were to start production and if the embargo were lifted, Cuba could export 600,000 tonnes a year to the United States.

After obtaining crude oil import license, teapot refinery can import Oman crude oil and Russian crude oil, which have low sulfur content and improved petroleum products.

The sale of the same shipment to the Jersey, Channel Islands, based trader Hussar Ltd., and the order to the Swiss based gold refinery Argor Heraus

Before obtaining the import license for crude oil, teapot refinery generally refines oil from the heavy oil, which has high sulfur content and is imported from Russia.

Iraq states, in particular, that air pollution from vehicle emissions, especially in urban areas, refinery operations, and industrial emissions currently pose a more significant problem to cultural heritage artefacts in Iran.

The number of entrepreneurs who possess sufficient technical know how to run a biodiesel refinery as well as the experience to develop new commercial agricultural projects is very small, and they generally cannot provide equity capital.

In other cases, the Kremlin acts punitively, as when it cut off oil supplies to Lithuania following the sale of the Mazeikiu Nafta refinery to a Polish company, or to Ukraine after its people voted for the wrong party.

According to Kuwait, the oil released as a result of Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait dwarfed all other inputs of oil into the Persian Gulf from spills, refinery operations, natural seeps, exploration and production activities, operational discharges from vessels, urban run off and similar sources.

As recently as last year, the fishing families say, employees of the refinery burned down homes that had been rebuilt. Trapiche moved the families to a nearby town, where they gained access to electricity, water, sanitation, and schooling, but if they want to continue to fish, they have to travel a long distance.

Iran also must be factored into this equation, as it is becoming a strategic investor by building an oil refinery just across its border in Armenia, partly as a security measure in case of a US attack and partly to relieve its petrol shortages. Moreover, Iran remains eager to contain Azerbaijani revanchist claims over the large Azeri minority in northern Iran.