UNSPSC 73101507: Research and Development refining fuels

The refining process is the method by which crude oil is altered into usable, consumable products such as gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, fuel oil and other petroleum products. When crude oil is refined, it is heated until it becomes a gas.

UNSPSC 73101507 Research and Development refining fuels, a Commodity code, shows no recent state and local procurement activity aligned with its nominal scope. The two most-recent opportunities tagged to this code — irrigation system improvements for a municipal park and armored car services for a school district — fall entirely outside the code's stated domain of fuel-refining research and development. The mismatch suggests either a data-entry error in how these opportunities were classified or that the code carries little active procurement volume under state and local issuing bodies. Without representative recent solicitations actually purchasing fuel-refining research and development work, no concrete framing of the work being bought, issuing-body mix, or geographic concentration can be drawn from the source.

Pursue this code only if your firm holds a specific customer relationship with a state agency, university, or special-purpose research district known to conduct fuel-refining R&D; otherwise, treat it as inactive for state and local business development purposes at this time.