This chart shows Gas Oil / Diesel Oil Production by Country.
Gas oil - gas is a group of petroleum distillation products having boiling points between kerosene and lubricating oil.The term originally referred to the product of oil gas works that was added to the product of coal gas works to produce improved illuminating gas.Historically (c.1924) 40% of traditionally distilled crude oil would be Gas oil—"being too heavy to burn in wick fed lamps and not heavy enough to make lubricating oils".
Diesel Oil is a fuel obtained from petroleum distillation that is used in diesel engines. It has a relatively low ignition temperature (540°C) and is ignited by the heat of compression.
Fuel oil is a fraction obtained from petroleum distillation, either as a distillate or a residue. Broadly speaking, fuel oil is any liquid fuel that is burned in a furnace or boiler for the generation of heat or used in an engine for the generation of power, except oils having a flash point of approximately 107 °F (42 °C) and oils burned in cotton or wool-wick burners. In this sense, diesel is a type of fuel oil.
Fuel oil is made of long hydrocarbon chains, particularly alkanes, cycloalkanes and aromatics. The term fuel oil is also used in a stricter sense to refer only to the heaviest commercial fuel that can be obtained from crude oil, i.e., heavier than gasoline and naphtha.
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