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The Australian owned Southern Oil Refineries (SOR) is based in Wagga Wagga, and its re-refinery is situated at Bomen Business Park (5kms north of the Wagga CBD).

The refinery produces a range of quality base oil products all manufactured from previously used lube oils, rather than from crude oil as at the traditional oil refineries. The re-refinery also produces a range of fuel oils as by-products.

Manufacturing quality base oils by re-refining used lube oil has significant environmental benefits over refining from crude oils to the same specifications. Tests have demonstrated that SOR oils are "at least as good as and in some specific ways better than base oils made from crude oil".

The SOR process prevents the release into the environment (on land and in water courses) of waste oil and ensures that contaminants are properly removed and safely disposed.

The SOR Vision for Lube to Lube Re-Refining

That the inherent resource value of used lubricating oils is recovered and realised for future applications, which fully utilise the unique properties of the resource.

That the necessary collection and re-refining infrastructure will operate with minimal environmental impact, positive community benefit, and sustainable profitability, exceeding wherever possible our stakeholder expectations.