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title: "The Great Refinery Run: refinery browser game by Taylor Bloomquist"
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summary: "The Great Refinery Run is a browser game by Taylor Bloomquist that walks you through an oil refinery, from pumping crude to delivering fuel, with a minigame at each process unit."
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# The Great Refinery Run

The Great Refinery Run is a browser game by Taylor Bloomquist that walks you through an oil refinery, from pumping crude to delivering fuel, with a minigame at each process unit.

Web app by [Taylor Bloomquist](https://fuelingcuriosity.com/game.html).

## Facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Made by | [Taylor Bloomquist](https://fuelingcuriosity.com/game.html) |
| Type | Web app |
| Category | [Games](https://cookiesforai.app/products/category/games) |
| Runs on | Web |
| Free tier | Free |
| Website | https://fuelingcuriosity.com/game.html |
| Page updated | 14 OCT 2026 |
| Facts checked | 14 OCT 2026 ([how](https://cookiesforai.app/method)) |

## What The Great Refinery Run does

The Great Refinery Run takes oil through each step of a refinery: you pump crude, clear salt and water in the desalter, pick a product path in the distillation tower and work units such as hydrotreating, alkylation and catalytic cracking.

At the end you choose how to deliver the product, by truck, rail, barge, tanker or pipeline, and a separate pump swap challenge follows a control room procedure.

A facts mode lets you browse every refinery fact without playing.

## Who The Great Refinery Run suits

- Parents and teachers explaining how fuel is made
- Curious players who like short science games

One limit: The Great Refinery Run is a single browser game in English, and the site around it promotes the maker's book.

## The Great Refinery Run and AI

Built with AI, as the maker says: The maker says he is not a software developer and relied heavily on language models, including Claude, Copilot and Gemini, to write the code. ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47338091))

## What The Great Refinery Run costs

Free tier: Free. The Great Refinery Run is free to play in the browser; the site also sells the maker's book on refining.

## How The Great Refinery Run got on this page

Listed by CookiesForAI from public pages: we saved The Great Refinery Run's store page or website and checked the facts on this page against the saved copies on 14 OCT 2026. The maker did not pay and was not asked.

Pages we saved: [fuelingcuriosity.com](https://fuelingcuriosity.com/game.html), [hacker-news.firebaseio.com](https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/47338091.json). Independent by our checks on 14 OCT 2026 ([how we decide](https://cookiesforai.app/method)).

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