Manufacture of refined petroleum products

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This class covers the production of refined petroleum products from crude oil and bituminous minerals, including various fuels and petrochemical products.

Includes

Production of motor fuel such as gasoline and kerosene
Production of light, medium, and heavy fuel oil, as well as refinery gases like ethane, propane, and butane
Manufacture of oil-based lubricating oils or greases, including those made from waste oil
Manufacture of products for the petrochemical industry and road coverings
Manufacture of various products including white spirit, vaseline, paraffin wax, and petroleum jelly
Manufacture of hard-coal and lignite fuel briquettes
Manufacture of petroleum briquettes
Blending of biofuels, such as alcohols with petroleum (e.g. gasohol)

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19200Manufacture of refined petroleum products

Details

Level: Class
Section: C Manufacturing
Parent: 192

Sector statistics

Employed persons: 3.6M persons(May 2026)

Whole PSIC section C (not specific to this code). Source: PSA Labor Force Survey, May 2026.

Industry size

Establishments: 19(2017)
Employment: 2,145 persons(2017)
Revenue: ~₱404.1B(2017)

Figures are for PSIC group 192 (the nearest level PSA surveys), not this specific code. Source: PSA OpenStat, Annual Survey of Philippine Business and Industry (ASPBI), 2017. Revenue figures are approximate.

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Set up in the Philippines

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