Refineries that shut in April include Sinopec's Tahe and Anqing refineries, and PetroChina's Sichuan refinery.
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When small refineries don't blend ethanol in, other refineries are supposed to pick up their slack.
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Most refineries are configured to operate on a fairly specific quality of crude (simple refineries generally need light, sweet oils while more complex refineries make most money from upgrading heavy, sour crudes).
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Refineries are entering turnaround now, so you'll see supplies build because refineries aren't using as much oil.
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But refineries in the Northeast have a more difficult time than refineries elsewhere in accessing that cheaper crude.
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The union members at the refineries met on Friday to decide whether to halt production at the refineries.
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"We are transferring our European refineries now from predominantly fuel refineries to jet fuel and petchem units," Seele said.
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Pruitt has been granting RFS waivers — intended for small refineries experiencing unique economic hardship — to several highly profitable refineries.
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France's oil refineries are on strike Tuesday, union officials said, with all eight of the country's refineries out of action.
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U.S. refineries are generally more efficient than their rivals in Europe and certainly more so than refineries in Latin America.
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"Any plan to transfer small refineries' biofuel obligations to other refineries will do more harm than good," Senator Barrasso said.
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Refineries are losers in the US-Venezuela battle Meanwhile, American refineries are caught in the crossfire between Maduro and Trump.
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A prolonged strike at refineries in France in 2010 led to a glut of crude in Europe because it could not be delivered to refineries, and a spike in refined products prices due to low output from refineries.
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Tankers transiting the Houston Ship Channel supply five refineries in the Houston metropolitan area and three refineries in Texas City, Texas.
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New York is supplied largely by U.S. Gulf Coast refineries via the Colonial Pipeline, along with local refineries and transatlantic imports.
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U.S. refineries have exported surplus distillate to Central and South America, where local refineries have proved unable to meet strongly growing demand.
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"Any plan to transfer small refineries' biofuel obligations to other refineries will do more harm than good," Barrasso said in a statement.
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IN FACT, IT HURTS CLEAN AIR BECAUSE REFINERIES, A LOT OF THEM DON'T HAVE THE CAPITAL TO INVEST IN UPDATING THEIR OWN REFINERIES.
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But the companies' refineries have been operating at a competitive disadvantage with refineries elsewhere in the country, according to its bankruptcy filing last year.
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Maintaining and inspecting equipment at refineries is required by the OSHA and EPA, but those agencies don't tell refineries how or when to inspect.
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Refineries that do not have high-tech kits like cokers that can convert fuel oil into higher value products are known as simple refineries.
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Total, which operates 2,200 petrol stations and five of France's seven refineries and nine depots, said the depots and four refineries were still blocked.
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In 2018, Poland received about 300,000 bpd through the pipeline for its Gdansk and Plock refineries, while Germany's Leuna and Schwedt refineries received 440,000 bpd.
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The two other firms operating East Coast refineries - PBF Energy and Phillips 66 - also own Midwest refineries, which gives them conflicting economic interests in the outcome.
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The refineries will be sold in two regional blocks: one in the northeast and another in the southern region of the country, with two refineries each.
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Total, which operates four of France's seven refineries, said the blockade was, however, hampering the distribution of products by road from four refineries and six depots.
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John Carney writes that the status quo requiring only refineries to comply with the mandate is hurting refineries in his state and could cause job losses.
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A VACUUM Maintaining and inspecting equipment at refineries is required by the OSHA and EPA, but those agencies don't tell refineries how or when to inspect.
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Meanwhile two new refineries in China are ramping up a combined 460,000 barrels a day of refining capacity and more small, independent "teapot" refineries are opening.
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Easing the regulatory burden on retrofitting older refineries and building new refineries would help make the U.S. a more efficient consumer of the crude oil it produces.
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This means that if one refinery — or several refineries — goes out unexpectedly, other refineries cannot ramp up production to compensate for the loss of refined petroleum products.
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Oregon does not have any refineries, but its railroads carry crude from major U.S. producing hubs like North Dakota to feed refineries in Washington to the north.
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Frank Maisano, spokesman for Fueling American Jobs Coalition, whose members include small refineries, said the issue is more complicated than simply counting the number of refineries saved.
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ZOMBIE REFINERIES East Coast refineries were shuttered in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, as nearly five years of demand growth evaporated overnight, leaving a tepid market for the gasoline that came pouring out of refineries that dotted the Atlantic Coast of Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
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Residents are hoping the government will take charge and shut down illegal refineries, while setting new standards for how the remaining refineries will run to reduce the soot.
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Fos-sur-Mer and Port Jerome Refineries Exxon Mobil's 22016,0000 bpd Fos-sur-Mer and the 240,000 bpd Port Jerome refineries have been little impacted by the strike.
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Refineries have to use a specialized process, and only a few refineries are able to make California-approved gas, which makes it harder for the state to import oil.
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Canadian refineries are very similar to U.S. refineries, which means they will have to make similar upgrades if they want to continue to sell gasoline in the U.S. market.
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Major Chinese oil refineries, including PetroChina's Jinzhou will set their run rates around 2000,500 barrels per day (bpd) lower than the second quarter, sources at the affected refineries said.
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New refineries in China are also able to meet more stringent specifications required by developed countries such as Australia, where the closure of aging refineries has boosted import demand.
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The oil and gas industry opposes changes to the waiver process mainly because it doesn't think larger refineries should have to take on the gallons small refineries pass up.
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The oil and gas industry opposes changes to the waiver process mainly because it doesn't think larger refineries should have to take on the gallons small refineries pass up.
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Elsewhere, oil refineries are damaged and leaking toxic chemicals into the environment, and the refineries had to release toxic substances in the air in the wake of their emergency shutdowns.
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"Large portions of the future refineries should be in petrochemicals to spread the risk of a reduction in diesel consumption," said R Ramachandran, head of refineries at Bharat Petroleum Corp.
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The company operates nine wholly-owned refineries with a combined capacity of 1.67 million bpd and two refineries co-owned with Cenovus Energy with a combined capacity of 502,2603 bpd.
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Additional export quotas for independent refineries along with export-linked incentives for refineries owned by state-owned oil giant Sinopec Corp are expected to lead to higher shipments in 2016.
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While investors may view refineries in Saudi Arabia as too risky because of political turbulence in the Persian Gulf, refineries in the United States could be seen as attractive investments.
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It is the chief oil-refining city in Nigeria and has two main oil refineries and a few illegal refineries that process around 210,000 barrels of crude oil a day.
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"Refineries are now clearly winding down for maintenance ... That means softer crude off-take by refineries and softer signals from crude oil spot prices" said SEB chief commodities analyst Bjarne Schieldrop.
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YOU GO AND SAY REFINERIES SHOULD BE OBLIGATED TO ENSURE THAT A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF ETHANOL IS BLENDED, THE REASON THAT'S INSANE IS THAT NOBODY WILL BUY BLENDED GASOLINE FROM REFINERIES.
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Many of India's oil refineries are calibrated to process crude oil from Iran and "it is not possible to suddenly convert those refineries (to run )some other form of crude," Shringla said.
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In the manifesto, Abubakar said he would privatize government-owned crude refineries, issue new licenses for greenfield investments in refineries and consider re-introducing bidding rounds for marginal fields and oil blocks.
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While the majors plan to continue to operate large, profitable refineries that are well integrated with their oil production assets, refineries outside of that footprint are likely to be sold, Brinker said.
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Casey Newton: I don't necessarily think of it in terms of privacy, but the writer Ben Thompson has this idea of data refineries, and Google and Facebook, he says, are data refineries.
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But it also called for the EPA to walk away from another sticking point — requiring larger refineries to make up for the ethanol quantities that small refineries are exempted from adding in.
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Their backlash resulted in a new proposal from the EPA designed to allays their concerns and promise to force other oil refineries to blend in the gallons small refineries were exempted from adding.
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"Refineries are now clearly winding down for maintenance ... That means softer crude off-take by refineries and softer signals from crude oil spot prices ..." chief commodities analyst at SEB bank, Bjarne Schieldrop, said.
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The EPA is also set to decline requests from the corn industry to make up for hardship exemptions it gave to numerous small refineries by reallocating those refineries' obligations across the overall industry.
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To ingest it all, firms are speedily building data refineries.
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Intropic – LONDON Intropic provides data refineries for investment management firms.
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Belarus relies on Russian crude for its two oil refineries.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Shipping companies, refineries, freight derivatives or diesel cracks?
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Keystone carries crude from Alberta's oil sands to U.S. refineries.
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Other reports suggested more than three refineries were shut down.
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"All our refineries are open" to forming partnerships, he said.
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It was unclear how long the refineries would be shut.
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Those refineries may now receive some shipments of American crude.
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Should -- we own a refinery -- refineries, a couple of them.
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The revised plan will also include studies for refineries sales.
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The characteristics of their refineries are suitable for Iranian oil.
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That would mean the refineries remaining shut for some time.
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Northeast refineries have had more trouble accessing those cheap barrels.
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Aramco has already invested in overseas refineries and petrochemicals plants.
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New refineries are also producing cleaner fuels in larger volumes.
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"They want to acquire refineries," one of the sources said.
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America's pipelines and refineries lag far behind its energy production.
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Some 185,000 bpd has been slated to feed Iraqi refineries.
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Only at these three refineries, there is no other place.
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U.S. refineries run essentially at capacity most of the time.
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What do gasoline refineries have to do with car prices?
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Lukoil controls refineries in Romania, Bulgaria, Italy and the Netherlands.
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Refineries undergo maintenance, reducing their appetite for feedstock crude oil.
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Three of Valero's five Gulf refineries were shut by Harvey.
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Shale oil isn't enough to keep Gulf Coast refineries running.
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Generally, contractors perform much of the maintenance in U.S. refineries.
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More U.S. crude is being processed by refineries across Asia.
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The pipeline also branches off to refineries in Washington State.
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Supply has tightened as gold refineries in Switzerland reduce production.
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The Druzhba network supplies refineries as far west as Germany.
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Now many refineries are restarting, including the largest U.S. refinery.
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Moscow suspended oil supplies to refineries in Belarus from Jan.
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The dairy industry, manufacturing industry, oil refineries and many others.
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But Louisiana refineries lack such a direct connection, Heminger noted.
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At least 28500 refineries in the region have also shuttered.
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"That inhibits a quick return of the refineries to service."
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And it's close to refineries on the Gulf of Mexico.
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The disintegration of the refineries has left many workers dispirited.
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"Typically we see refineries cutting in the fourth quarter and the first quarter, and this year we saw refineries running very high utilisation rates" due to the steep contango in the gasoline futures market.
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Two other refineries, its Three Rivers and Port Arthur facilities, were in the process of restarting, while its Texas City and Houston refineries, which were never shut down, were still running at reduced rates.
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"I'm committed to having stopped buying foreign fuels by midway through the next six-year term, because we're going to rehabilitate the six existing refineries and we will build two big refineries," he said.
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A mixture of maintenance in Asia and only a limited amount of new refineries coming online could give vulnerable refineries another stay of execution, speakers at the Platts Middle Distillates conference in Antwerp said.
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UNDER-PERFORMING REFINERIES Venezuelan refineries have worked this year at historical low rates with some of them completely halted for weeks due to technical failure, lack of investment, delayed maintenance and insufficient crude supply.
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A prolonged strike at refineries in France in 2010 led to a glut of crude in Europe because it could not be delivered to refineries, and thousands of petrol stations ran out of fuel.
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Refineries will attempt to shift output as much as they can away from gasoline into diesel, said Russell Hardy, chief executive of Vitol, the world's largest oil trader which owns several refineries in Europe.
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This partnership model, including the 60 percent stake sale in four refineries and keeping the other nine refineries, will leave Petrobras with a 75 percent market share of refining in Brazil, according to the presentation.
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For example, 11 states, representing about a third of US refineries, and the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said their rules bar releasing the number of gender discrimination and harassment complaints filed against specific refineries.
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Valero's refineries ran at 99 percent of their combined refining capacity in the third quarter, far ahead of the same period in 0003, when five U.S. Gulf Coast refineries were shut due to Hurricane Harvey.
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Husky's throughput, the amount of crude processed at its refineries, also fell 4.2% to 340,000 barrels per day due to planned turnarounds at two of its refineries and as operations remained suspended at another refinery.
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Energy major Total, which operates five of France's eight refineries, said in a statement that its Grandpuits and La MEede refineries were running at minimum capacity and products expeditions are blocked due to the strike.
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Still, Venezuela remains one of the largest suppliers to U.S. refineries.
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ExxonMobil and Shell both base their largest refineries globally in Singapore.
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Since the shuttered refineries are unable operate, it effectively cuts demand.
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U.S. refineries continue to produce more gasoline than drivers can use.
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And sulphur dioxide fumes from oil refineries corrode the Taj's exteriors.
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He would also build two oil refineries, in Campeche and Tabasco.
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He has since been appointed Iraq's deputy minister for oil refineries.
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Citgo owns three refineries and a network of terminals and pipelines.
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He added PKN's refineries were safe and working at full capacity.
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But growth in crude runs slowed, reflecting competition from upcoming refineries.
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The decline in inventories comes despite seasonal maintenance at many refineries.
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These include refineries, lubricants and the sale of petrol-related products.
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Tesoro has refineries in California, Washington, Alaska, Utah and North Dakota.
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Instead Pemex's refineries have become a virtual third rail for investors.
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Their refineries on the island were operating as normal on Tuesday.
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Other refineries, such as Marathon's Detroit facility have done the same.
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Refineries owned by Koch Industries rely on oil imports from Canada.
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Another possibility would be buying stakes in refineries abroad, he said.
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Five refineries with combined capacity 800,000 barrels per day operate there.
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A number of Canadian refineries were temporarily shut down in May.
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Port Arthur, a city surrounded by oil refineries, has 55,000 residents.
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Newly built refineries are also producing cleaner fuels in larger volumes.
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Former Chief Executive Earl Holding consolidated the refineries and gasoline stations.
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At least three refineries in California have cut production as well.
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When refineries shut down quickly, they often emit excess air pollutants.
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He noted that refineries employed thousands of people in Wyoming alone.
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Marathon has no interest in acquiring the Citgo refineries, Heminger said.
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With Venezuela's refineries in disrepair, even gasoline is in short supply.
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Workers in these refineries are the first exposed to toxic substances.
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It remains uncertain how long refineries will operate below normal levels.
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Pemex's six domestic refineries have a lot of room for improvement.
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Two other Corpus Christi refineries have also begun winding down operations.
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Philadelphia Energy Solutions owns two refineries, Girard Point and Point Breeze.
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C.G.T. activists blocked highway lanes and oil refineries, creating fuel shortages.
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The refineries have been recently plagued by a series of mishaps.
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It can originate from sources including power plants, refineries and factories.
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A prolonged strike at refineries in France in 2010 led to a glut of crude in Europe, a spike in refined products prices due to low output from refineries and shortages at thousands of gas stations.
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Refineries affected The French Petroleum Industries Union (UFIP) had earlier said that three of the country's eight refineries had shut down and that although supply was near sufficient, transporting gas to stations had been incredibly difficult.
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The average gasoline yield ranges from a high of 51 percent for refineries in the Midwest to a low of 42 percent for refineries on the Gulf Coast with a nationwide average of around 45 percent.
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The plant's refining capacity was shuttered at a time when several European refineries were finding it uncompetitive to remain operational, as newer, more complex mega-refineries emerged in other regions like the Middle East and Asia.
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Marathon has six refineries with a combined 1.8 million barrels per day of capacity, while Andeavor — formerly known as Tesoro — has 10 refineries in western states with a combined 1.2 million barrels per day of capacity.
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Zimbabwe sells unprocessed platinum and nickel to South African refineries as well as gold to Rand Refineries, which said on Thursday it would shut its smelter and significantly scale down its refining during South Africa's lockdown.
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The court said the EPA overstepped its authority to grant waivers in the past for HollyFrontiers Woods Cross and Cheyenne refineries and CVR Energys Wynnewood refinery because the refineries had not received exemptions the previous year.
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A Total spokesman said on Thursday although refineries were running normally, it faced supply disruption because striking workers were blockading refineries, and one in five service stations in some areas lacked fuel, including some in Paris.
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A prolonged refinery strike in France in 2010 led to a glut of crude in Europe because it could not be delivered to refineries, and a spike in refined products prices due to low output from refineries.
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The law requires the EPA to help small refineries who struggle to meet the RFS without severely damaging their bottom line, but others have said that the program allows too many larger refineries to skirt EPA regulations.
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Petrol from American refineries amounts to about half of Mexico's domestic consumption.
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That's about half the production levels at the refineries' peak in 13.
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Five of the refineries are controlled by Total and two by Esso.
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Traders from oil majors operating German refineries said Druzhba flows had stopped.
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Heavy maintenance at refineries has weighed on profits in the downstream segment.
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He added PKN's refineries were safe and were working at full capacity.
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Problem is, neither of these bio-refineries are yet in full operation.
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Ports, oil refineries and industrial plants in the area have been shut.
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"This is manufacturing," Meehan said of the refineries threaten by higher costs.
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Once fossil fuels are extracted they need to get transported to refineries.
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"Indian refineries are fully prepared to meet the national demand," he added.
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The RINs are up 1003,000% or the smaller refineries are going bankrupt.
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There was no damage to either of Chile's two refineries, ENAP said.
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But abundant supply will remain an issue once refineries complete their maintenance.
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The penalty for larger refineries will be to curb any expansion projects.
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Just under a quarter pays the refineries to turn crude into gasoline.
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Other U.S. refineries such as Phillips 66 did not receive any cargo.
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Four U.S. East Coast refineries have been shuttered in the past decade.
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Complicating things, different refineries can use different ingredients in their catalyst blends.
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Phillips 66 has 14 refineries, mainly in the United States and Europe.
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The refineries have pledged to launch 13 secondary processing units by Jan.
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Standard Oil owned delivery wagons and refineries in addition to oil wells.
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It all went to Meyer Lansky's refineries on Seymour Avenue in Brooklyn.
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Asia's refineries are capable of processing light oils, but not as efficiently.
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Refineries have churned out huge volumes of diesel, gasoline and jet fuel.
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Union blockades of petrol refineries and depots have caused widespread fuel shortages.
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However, CGT union officials have rejected the ballots at the two refineries.
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The exact volumes of crude oil delivered to these refineries is unclear.
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European refineries are threatening to reject the heavier Ural blend that remains.
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U.S. refineries also took in a record 33 million barrels of oil.
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In July, Pemex's six domestic refineries produced about 213,000 bpd of gasoline.
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U.S. refineries, unlike OPEC, haven't done much to "mop up" the glut.
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Its existing, ageing refineries produce hardly any fuel after years of neglect.
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Refineries and chemical plants are exploding, releasing toxic clouds and poisonous spills.
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But as far as refineries are concerned, it's not great for all.
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The quake could hamper Alaska's oil industry, which supplies West Coast refineries.
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Potential buyers are currently visiting the refineries and doing their due diligence.
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"We're extending the compliance assistance to all the smaller refineries," he said.
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Gasoline and diesel stocks fell sharply, as refineries kept capacity use steady.
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The eight refineries have total capacity of 1.1 million barrels per day.
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"We're extending the compliance assistance to all the smaller refineries," he said.
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The contaminated oil crisis has also hit supplies to Kazakh domestic refineries.
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The move was also aimed at helping Indian refineries raise their utilization.
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The move was also aimed at helping Indian refineries raise their utilization.
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Graphic: Iran refineries, here Reporting by Bozorgmehr Sharafedin; Editing by Edmund Blair
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Few countries have refineries with ample capacity to refine Venezuela's heavy oil.
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The refineries are located in the states of Amazonas, Ceará and Paraná.
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The catastrophe damaged wells, set refineries ablaze and sharply cut electricity output.
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Valero and Total were also suspending operations at refineries in the area.
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Refineries in Europe had to scramble for oil when supplies were halted.
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Refineries could likely cope with 20 inches of rain over five days.
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The two-week strike has so far mostly disrupted supplies from refineries.
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The two-week strike has so far mostly disrupted supplies from refineries.
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It provides transportation and logistics services for oil refineries and other businesses.
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The refineries are likely to remain closed throughout the week, he said.
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State-run oil firm Belneftekhim said Belarusian refineries were still running at reduced capacity, after Moscow had said it would start pumping clean crude from Monday through the Druzhba network that supplies refineries as far west as Germany.
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In the meeting next week, the government and representatives from the Delta will discuss key issues such as legalizing illicit refineries and turning them into so-called "modular refineries", which the administration hopes to start from next month.
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Suncor, which has dedicated pipeline space for its crude as well as refineries in Canada, is mostly insulated from the impact of growing price discounts that U.S. refineries apply to Canadian oil, which have hurt rival producers, Williams said.
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"As the owner of a couple of major refineries in China, if Cofco themselves are throwing in the towel and delivering, then it gives you signals about the demand for raw sugar from the refineries there," the dealer said.
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NOVAK SAYS DECREASE OF OIL OUTPUT ALSO DUE TO MAINTENANCE AT OIL REFINERIES
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On average, about 70 percent of the world's gold passes through Swiss refineries.
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Total, which operates five refineries in France, was not immediately available to comment.
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However, by Sunday, more refineries were shuttered as the threat of flooding grew.
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But the prospect of political interference could dampen investor interest in the refineries.
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In 1999, Dangote shifted to manufacturing, building sugar refineries and a flour mill.
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Croft also noted that Gulf Coast refineries process heavier crude, including Saudi oil.
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He also plans to upgrade existing refineries and expand drilling commissioned by Pemex.
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On Friday, workers at three Total refineries voted to halt output by Tuesday.
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It's when refineries are undergoing maintenance for the switch over to summer formulas.
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However, the price increases are slowing as refineries work to resume production capacity.
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KEEPING COOL Oil refineries and other processing plants need water mainly for cooling.
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From there the crude would be sent to refineries and potentially for export.
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Several refineries around Corpus Christi, Texas, shut down before the storm made landfall.
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He sees uses from refineries, to jet engines, to utility plants, he said.
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Murrieta also said that Pemex is still looking for investors for its refineries.
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Typically Iranian tankers head to the western ports where Turkish refineries are based.
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The higher prices have boosted margins for both state owned and independent refineries.
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We'll have to be satisfied with the numbers the refineries themselves are reporting.
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At least one of those refineries has yet to return to full production.
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Shell is still building the pipelines between the two refineries, the sources said.
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Several refineries that were not shutting down were expected to cutback on operations.
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It also ships oil to PKN Orlen and Grupa Lotos refineries in Poland.
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Some traders grew relatively rich, as did workers in Raqqa's primitive oil refineries.
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Refineries are once again taking in crude following the post-summer maintenance period.
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It imported 225,000 bpd in April to offset its domestic refineries' poor operations.
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Notably, refining has increased in China, particularly among the country's small "teapot" refineries.
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Tighter environmental regulations in Washington and California have blocked new refineries, for example.
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"How long the situation lasts depends on how the refineries work," he said.
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Still, Reliance's refineries benefit from being among the most modern in the world.
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Typically, U.S. refineries have received their heavy oil from Canada, Venezuela and Mexico.
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Citgo can process up to 749,000 bpd of crude in three U.S. refineries.
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It's never been a question of the refineries' ability to supply the fuel.
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N for $4.1 billion to add refineries in Texas, New Mexico and Minnesota.
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Petrobras declined to comment on the possibility of Iranian investment in Brazilian refineries.
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Four more refineries will be put on the block in the second phase.
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Currently, Petrobras is the sole owner of 14 refineries in operation in Brazil.
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Running these lighter crude grades through refineries means less fuel oil is produced.
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It was opposed by numerous industries, including oil refineries and wind energy companies.
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It has investments in other refineries in Japan, China, South Korea and Indonesia.
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With gasoline more than $2.80 per gallon, the refineries are making record profits.
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Venezuela's refineries have been plagued with blackouts, equipment issues and stoppages for years.
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Puerto Rico has no operating refineries, as the last one idled in 2009.
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Factbox on alumina curtailments: Alumina refineries are also taking their 30-percent cuts.
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Inventories have since fallen nearly 6 percent after some refineries temporarily reduced runs.
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Saudi Aramco has similar strategic ties to refineries in Japan and South Korea.
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Since Trump was elected president, he said EGI has purchased refineries and hospitals.
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Exxon reported operations at its Gulf Coast refineries were normal on Wednesday morning.
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Shell operations were continuing at the two Louisiana refineries, spokesman Ray Fisher said.
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Shell operations are continuing at the two Louisiana refineries, spokesman Ray Fisher said.
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The Caribbean is not unfamiliar to Baota, one of China's largest independent refineries.
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Zimplats ships its platinum matte for further processing at refineries in South Africa.
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Dozens of gas transportation pipes have exploded and several refineries have caught fire.
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Courville was an employee of Turner Industrial Group, which performs maintenance for refineries.
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Pipelines, refineries, and power plants operate on a top-down chain of command.
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Line 3 carries oil from Alberta to U.S. refineries in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
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Line 3 carries oil from Alberta to U.S. refineries in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
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A surge of Chinese-built infrastructure projects, including hydroelectric dams and refineries, followed.
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Many U.S. refineries are already for sale, but have struggled to find buyers.
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Together the four refineries represent 37% of Brazil's refining capacity, according to Petrobras.
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This forced Kazakhstan to redirect supplies from exports to feed refineries at home.
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Total said less than 20000% of staff at its refineries were on strike.
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Oil prices have fallen, reflecting the sudden drop in demand from idled refineries.
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It has been considering closing at least one of its 11 domestic refineries.
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Massive floods caused by the storm forced refineries in the area to close.
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That offset record activity at American refineries, which ran at 98 percent capacity.
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Defrense said workers were still meeting at Donges, La Mede and Feyzin refineries.
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However, the jury is out on whether oil refineries will sustain any flooding.
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Valero operates refineries close to the Lyondell plant in Houston and Texas City.
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On Friday workers at three Total refineries voted to halt output by Tuesday.
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One of the refineries is the largest crude-processing facility in the world.
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Eleven of the 12 other refineries that were affected are preparing to restart.
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This could boost margins for companies operating complex refineries with large coking capacity.
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But the biggest polluters, such as oil refineries, still would have been taxed.
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The document does not provide comparisons to existing refineries of a similar size.
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BPCL, India's second-biggest state refiner, has upgraded two of its refineries to superior-grade fuels, and is revamping the fire-hit hydrocracker at its Mumbai refinery so it can produce cleaner diesel, its head of refineries R. Ramachandran said.
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Refineries: As of yesterday afternoon, 10 refineries in the Corpus Christi and Houston area are offline, with a combined capacity of roughly 2.2 million barrels per day, or roughly 12 percent of the U.S total, according to an Energy Department report.
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The unfortunate reality is that only a handful of foreign facilities are capable and willing to meet this niche demand for the type of steel required in drilling, pipelines, onshore and offshore production facilities, refineries, LNG terminals, refineries and petrochemical plants.
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Saudi Aramco and its partners recently opened massive new refineries in the Middle East that were built to produce more than 60 percent middle distillates, while companies including ExxonMobil, Total, Galp and Repsol invested in European refineries to boost diesel.
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At least seven major refineries are out of commission, and Morningstar on Tuesday estimated that 11 more refineries, with a combined capacity to produce 1.3 million barrels per day, risked closing, including the Saudi Aramco-Motiva refinery in Port Arthur, Tex.
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Suncor sends over 200 truckloads of Colorado crude oil to its refineries each day.
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PBF also has refineries in Paulsboro, New Jersey, Delaware City, Delaware and Toledo, Ohio.
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After decades of poor upkeep, the refineries are bleeding money as well as fuel.
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"The refineries ... they are back, Port Harcourt, Warri have been supplied crude," Kachikwu said.
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"Very soon we will launch a programme to attract investment into refineries," he added.
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The situation is so dire that U.S. East Coast refineries have been cutting production.
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Traders from oil majors operating the German refineries said flows via Druzhba had stopped.
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Hurricane Harvey crippled refineries after the 2017 storm devastated parts of Texas and Louisiana.
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Chinese refineries typically order U.S. oil three months in advance due to shipping distances.
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As refineries and other companies begin to resume operations, however, more emissions are expected.
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A new president might've extended those actions to sectors like refineries and air travel.
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Nigeria imports almost all its gasoline because its refineries have been neglected for years.
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Adding to its woes were planned turnarounds and unplanned outages that impacted five refineries.
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The refineries ran at 98 percent of their combined capacity in the second quarter.
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But instead of building refineries and smelters, many mining firms simply shut up shop.
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"Refineries continue to produce," South African Petroleum Industry Association executive director Avhapfani Tshifularo said.
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The 69-mile pipeline runs from Abbotsford, British Columbia, to three refineries in Washington.
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Refineries in the path of Tropical Storm Barry continued to operate despite flood threats.
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A Total spokeswoman said deliveries from its refineries and depots had resumed on Friday.
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Most, Estado said, would support the sale of some or all of Petrobras' refineries.
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One energy company has preordered Aptonomy's drones to use at oil refineries this year.
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Despite so many refineries coming to the market, the outlook is not entirely bleak.
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"I'm not concerned for refineries," said Steve Sawyer, head of refining with consultants FGE.
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Gas made from petcoke can be used internally in refineries and at petrochemical plants.
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And several major western refineries are down for maintenance heading into the holiday weekend.
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Both companies said they were also interested in running Iranian oil in their refineries.
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Citgo operates three refineries, pipelines and a fuel distribution network in the United States.
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MLPs earn fees by moving oil and gas through pipelines, refineries and storage facilities.
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Canadian heavy oil producers depend on U.S. refineries to buy much of their output.
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SilverPeak Financial Partners was once seen as a buyer of refineries - not a seller.
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Each of the revisions would benefit some refineries struggling to comply with the mandate.
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The company's other Gulf Coast refineries continue to operate, Valero spokeswoman Lillian Riojas said.
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Nigeria relies almost entirely on imported fuels due to limited and poorly maintained refineries.
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Mr González suggests partners could take joint ownership of refineries and help modernise them.
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Most of the world's refineries use the Bayer process to extract alumina from bauxite.
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This week, after riot police cleared most of the blocked refineries, petrol distribution eased.
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Last week's floods in the U.S. Midwest prevented oil from getting to some refineries.
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The new proposals would also allow PDVSA to sell its refineries to private companies.
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Similar size refineries typically take between five and 10 years to complete, he added.
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They own the refineries that blend fuel and the gas stations that sell it.
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For private industry, refineries are an opportunity to make more product and more money.
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The two oil refineries are run by the world's biggest oil producer, Saudi Aramco.
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Refineries around the world are now struggling to keep pace with consumption, it says.
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Trading sources said it seemed refineries were now starting to take in more cargoes.
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Ecuador needs capital to replace oil reserves, revitalize production and overhaul refineries and terminals.
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Refineries can't operate solely on the very light crude found in domestic shale oilfields.
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EPA spokeswoman Liz Bowman said that the agency does not comment on specific refineries.
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It has in the past advocated refineries stop using hydrofluoric acid in refining processes.
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He forced smaller refineries to choose between selling out to him or facing bankruptcy.
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The 31 waivers issued to refineries by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Aug.
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Explosions at oil refineries can raise concerns about pollution, air quality and health effects.
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Gujarat is also home to large refineries and sea ports near the storm's path.
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In particular, he cited the company's plan to sell eight refineries spread around Brazil.
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And now there has been a major fire in one of the U.S. refineries.
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Even when the refineries start again, problems will remain at the port of Houston.
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It would retain a ban on new refineries, pulp and paper mills and incinerators.
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The waivers free refineries from having to blend biofuels like ethanol into their gasoline.
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The agency also has the power to exempt smaller refineries from the blending requirements.
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You can't see one from the other, but you know the refineries are there.
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Further increases are likely in September after Hurricane Harvey forced temporary closures of refineries.
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Total said fewer than 5% of staff at its five refineries had walked out.
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There remains questions about some of the major refineries, as others return to operation.
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Exxon operates oil refineries in Louisiana, Texas, Montana and Chicago, in the United States.
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Its mission is to investigate fires and explosions in oil refineries and chemical plants.
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NEW BIOFUELS DEAL WILL REDISTRIBUTE GALLONS EXEMPTED FROM SMALL REFINERIES TO OTHER REFINERS - CENSKY
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At least five refineries were offline in Corpus Christi, Texas, as of Sunday night.
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In the second quarter you could see some softening, some refineries go to maintenance.
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The waivers free refineries from having to blend biofuels like ethanol into their gasoline.
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They could lead to higher gasoline prices and layoffs at some refineries, particularly Citgo.
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Flooding at refineries could extend outages to weeks or months, analysts and experts say.
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Flint Hills Resources and Citgo were reported to be shutting down Corpus Christi refineries.
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The company is not currently planning to sell any additional refineries, the people said.
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Refineries typically reduce output and do maintenance between winter and summer peak demand periods.
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The company's alumina refineries and smelters, meanwhile, are dependent on external raw material supplies.
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Other refineries have taken years to restart after suffering substantial damage to processing capabilities.
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A 2015 EPA rule would have made refineries follow pollution rules during emergency shutdowns.
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Only the Zhanjiang storage is a standalone facility with no pipelines to nearby refineries.
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Sulfur is corrosive and refineries that run more sour grades require more intense maintenance.
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Mexico's dilapidated refineries cannot meet the growing population's demand for gasoline and other products.
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Marathon's six refineries are largely in the Midwest, with one in Texas City, Texas.
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Hellenic, which operates three refineries in Greece and exports more than half of its output, said refining sales volumes, thanks to high utilisation rates of its refineries, outweighed a 20 percent drop in benchmark refining margins and higher provisions for CO2 emissions rights.
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Last year, officials said, Mr. Hooker's team concluded that despite public statements to the contrary, airstrikes against Islamic State-held refineries had not significantly weakened the terrorist group's finances because it had built makeshift refineries to sell oil on the black market.
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"It's a great start, but we'll keep the online campaign up and the team will organize more protests until the government is able to shut down the illegal refineries and repair the government-owned refineries so its emissions become soot free," she said.
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Currently, most big data refineries are based in America or are controlled by American firms.
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Many of the refineries and chemical plants are much more vulnerable to storm surge flooding.
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The rule in question puts the onus on oil refineries to blend ethanol into gasoline.
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A spokesman for Marathon declined to discuss operations at the company's refineries in Texas City.
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Together, the refineries have accumulated annual operating losses of about $5 billion in recent years.
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Oil prices held relatively firm as key U.S. refineries began to restart following Hurricane Harvey.
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The return of refineries after maintenance contributed to the higher runs in April, Wang added.
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Typically refineries have enough crude oil in storage to keep operations for around three days.
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Suncor is an integrated producer whose refineries benefited from being able to buy cheap crude.
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Makeshift refineries, usually hidden in oil-soaked clearings, support tens of thousands of people locally.
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The military shut down around 50 bush refineries in the first few weeks of 2017.
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About 15 miles away, the shock waves disrupted operations at two oil refineries in Martinez.
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Haifa is home to many other large industrial plants including Oil Refineries, Israel's biggest refinery.
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Prior to Trump's term, just a few smaller refineries were granted relief from this requirement.
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It was not immediately clear how the crude would then be transported to the refineries.
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Prior to Trump's election, just a few smaller refineries were granted relief from this requirement.
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In 2005, Katrina put refineries underwater and spilled millions of gallons of oil into floodwaters.
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Their report says that middlemen selling gold to the refineries are linked to Congolese smugglers.
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Restrictions on travel near the ITC site forced at least two refineries to curb production.
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In the planned split of the partnership, Shell took ownership of the two Louisiana refineries.
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The longer refineries remain shut, the more retail prices will increase, traders and analysts said.
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Kloza said he is watching for possible announcements from two other refineries in Lake Charles.
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Poland has released 2000,000 tonnes of mandatory oil reserves to Lotos and PKN Orlen refineries.
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It said that was sufficient for supplying the country's refineries for two months if needed.
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Some of those refineries have come back online, though many are running at reduced rates.
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US Gulf Coast refineries are configured to run on a healthy dose of heavy crude.
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Major Chinese refineries closed several refining units in May, which would have crimped crude appetite.
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Analysts polled by Reuters had forecast a decrease of 599,000 barrels as refineries cut output.
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"You have refineries that are able to put cheaper gas into the market," he said.
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Poland has released 800,000 tonnes of mandatory oil reserves to Lotos and PKN Orlen refineries.
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Around 1,500 staff at three alumina refineries and two bauxite mines walked out on Aug.
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Analysts say oil could remain under pressure as U.S. refineries undergo seasonal maintenance this fall.
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The dilapidated state of its refineries means the country imports most of its refined fuel.
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Most refineries cannot simply take in only lighter crude, because it would affect operational efficiency.
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"Refineries coming back online is putting a squeeze on supplies in the Gulf," Kilduff said.
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But U.S. refineries have been churning out, and exporting, record volumes of fuel this year.
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Cheap crude spurred record demand growth for motor fuels, which refineries worldwide scrambled to produce.
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Oil majors ExxonMobil and Chevron have also applied for waivers at their small U.S. refineries.
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My father has worked in Sarnia's oil refineries for a good chunk of his life.
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Citgo owns three refineries and a network of terminals and pipelines in the United States.
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More than 30 refineries have sought the waivers, according to sources familiar with the matter.
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U.S. crude stocks fell last week as refineries hiked output, the Energy Information Administration said.
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Wholesale prices have risen in the Midwest as the region's refineries undergo maintenance, DeHaan said.
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It also has purchased foreign oil for Caribbean refineries and to supply allies, including Cuba.
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Caracas-based PDVSA did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the refineries.
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The company ships fuel from its Gulf Coast refineries at Galveston Bay and Garyvillle, Louisiana.
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Some 39 refineries have filed applications for small refinery waivers for the 2018 compliance year.
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The refineries the oil company initially intended to offer to investors were in other regions.
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In the past, its refineries were able to fully cover domestic needs for these fuels.
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Low oil prices lead to improved margins which caused higher production at refineries, it said.
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If the sulfur cannot be removed to comply with the regulations, refineries will reduce production.
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These hardship waivers are only offered to refineries producing less than 75,000 barrels a day.
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Refineries are running at a high level, and utilization has been running over 2000 percent.
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PES operates one of the nation's oldest refineries, which is handicapped by hopelessly antiquated technology.
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Newer and better pipelines and refineries would provide more options for a more efficient market.
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The sanctions also damaged Rusal's overseas supply chain, smelters and refineries, partly based in Europe.
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FGE said that amid strong profits, other refineries would pick up much of the slack.
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Cleveland had many railroads connecting the oil fields of Pennsylvania and Ohio to his refineries.
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Sinochem could also use the office to meet growing opportunities to supply China's independent refineries.
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RMC is one North America's largest precious metals refineries and filed for bankruptcy in November.
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PDVSA ordered some of the cargoes as it prepared alternative supplies while refineries undergo maintenance.
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Refineries typically bring down units at least once a year for maintenance work, limiting production.
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Another $245 million in funding is planned for upgrades to Pemex's six existing domestic refineries.
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The hefty processing rates were supported by the start up of two major new refineries.
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OPEC nation Venezuela's refineries have been plagued with blackouts, equipment issues and stoppages for years.
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Some refineries remain shut or are running at reduced capacity, and gasoline prices have soared.
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Refineries and dams were built, but there was no long-term agricultural or economic strategy.
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However, many U.S. refineries are already on the block and have struggled to find buyers.
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The shutdown would mean all three of Exxon's U.S. Gulf Coast refineries have reduced production.
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Bidders for the refineries include U.S., Chinese and Middle Eastern investors, Reuters reported in January.
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The coronavirus has grounded planes normally used to transport gold and closed precious metals refineries.
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Several refineries in Europe and the United States have also cut output since last week.
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Influential hawks like Senator Lindsey Graham have suggested carrying out strikes on Iranian oil refineries.
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This included 31 refineries that were set to get a break on the ethanol mandate.
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Outdoors, we breathe in toxins delivered by car traffic, coal-fired plants and oil refineries.
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After Harvey, some refineries requested crude from the SPR, which currently hold 675 million barrels.
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"It may take weeks for refineries to repair and replace damaged equipment," Mr. Dye said.
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Biofuel demand is also increasing water consumption, and biofuel refineries can adversely impact air quality.
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Domestic refineries could invest more money to refine more light crude, leaving less to export.
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Most of the traders planned to resell the volumes to Chinese teapot refineries, traders said.
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Total said its five refineries were producing normally but were unable to ship out products.
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In Europe, Belarus on Friday also said Russia had halted oil supplies to its refineries.
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In Europe, Belarus on Friday also said Russia had halted oil supplies to its refineries.
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American refineries in the US Gulf Coast have for years relied on Venezuela's heavy crude.
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The Gulf Coast refineries are not configured to use what's in the rainy-day fund.
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There was no damage to either of Chile's two refineries from the quake, ENAP said.
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Unionised workers at two alumina refineries and three bauxite mines had walked out on Aug.
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It supplies gas to homes and businesses in Southern California, including power plants and refineries.
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But critics say that the program allows too many larger refineries to skirt EPA regulations.
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Oil refineries are shutting down in the wake of rainfall and flooding from Hurricane Harvey.
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The base and precious metal refineries will have capacity to toll refine another 600,000 ounces.
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Many U.S. Gulf Coast refineries are configured to process the heavy crude that Venezuela pumps.
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The rise in inventories came even as refineries boosted activity in the most recent week.
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Indian refineries have been exporting near-record volumes of diesel as domestic demand has weakened.
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Workers at six of France's seven refineries downed tools on Tuesday, the CGT union said.
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Indian refineries have been exporting near-record volumes of diesel as domestic demand has weakened.
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The mining company ships its platinum matte for further processing at refineries in South Africa.
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Some refineries are expected to shut down until the storm passes, possibly disrupting gasoline supplies.
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Traders said they were concerned that other refineries might shutter because of flooding, affecting demand.
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Thanks to NAFTA, proximity and profit motives, Texas refineries are intertwined with Mexico's energy sector.
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Protesters have blocked deliveries to gas stations from at least half of France's eight refineries.
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You know, when you have an industry like this, there's inherent danger inside those refineries.
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Talks between refineries and pipeline operators are being held on Tuesday in Bratislava, he added.
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Without it, Venezuela's gummy production cannot easily flow through pipelines to refineries and export terminals.
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At least one of the Harvey-affected refineries is still working to resume full production.
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Several refineries in India are scheduled to shut throughout 2019 to prepare for the upgrade.
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The Pan Niger Delta Youth Leadership Forum (PANDLEAF) said in a statement on Monday the government should "make bold its promises by relaxing all the bottle necks associated with licensing and other regulatory process" to allow illicit refineries to be converted into modular refineries.
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"Next year will be challenging for us as I have to protect my crude throughput and finish the job at the refineries and get ready for Euro VI by April 2020," said B.V. Rama Gopal, head of refineries at IOC, the country's top refiner.
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He plans to build a retail fuel network in Europe through acquisitions and supply it with gasoline from refineries in Romania and China, the latter after consolidating some independent Chinese refineries known as "teapots", according to a script of his presentation reviewed by Reuters.
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That balance depends on the price of the gasoline leaving the refineries — for example, if a refinery has an unplanned outage like the one that took place in the Midwest last August, but consumer demand remains high, refineries can charge more for their product.
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The fine print: The formula proposed by the agency for determining how many gallons other refineries would have to blend into their fuels would be based on an average of government projections rather than the actual number of gallons small refineries received waivers for.
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Houston is home to several major refineries in the U.S. "With some of the major refineries closing down in Houston, we're seeing fireworks in gasoline prices, a move which is being reflected in refinery stocks," said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at First Standard Financial.
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Top refiner Sinopec is upgrading its refineries to produce fuel to comply with the new standards.
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Each block would have two refineries and logistical assets, and Petrobras would keep a minority stake.
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Even the grim, monster-filled dungeons — places like sewers, mines, and oil refineries — look wonderfully ornate.
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In 2000 Tony Blair's administration was plunged into crisis when protesting lorry-drivers blockaded oil refineries.
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Nigeria's military said it had destroyed 13 illegal refineries in the restive Niger Delta oil hub.
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There are refineries in Chicago and other pipelines that pump in gasoline, diesel and jet fuel.
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Harvey shut refineries that can process up to 4.4 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude.
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Pump prices stayed higher, although benchmark U.S. gasoline futures fell nearly 4 percent as refineries restarted.
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Some of the top oil refineries that come under Sinopec are configured to process Iranian oil.
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The refineries are expected to begin operations this year, with full production not likely until 2017.
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Overall, the state's refineries' emissions could have become an $83 million per year liability under 16313.
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The return of refineries after maintenance also contributed to the higher runs in April, said Wang.
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The Houston area is home to nine oil refineries that process 12% of the national total.
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Traders from oil majors operating the German refineries said the flows via Druzhba had been stopped.
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Direct emissions from refineries, meanwhile, dipped slightly but are higher than they were 5 years ago.
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Although it's known for massive oil refineries and energy companies, healthcare and technology are burgeoning industries.
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John Barrasso of Wyoming, home to several small refineries, applauded the expansion of the exemption program.
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Sinopec is targeting more engineering and construction contracts for refineries and petrochemical plants, said the official.
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RED MUD Most of the world's refineries use the Bayer process to extract alumina from bauxite.
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Prior to Trump's term, just a handful of smaller refineries were granted relief from this requirement.
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He said the situation could lead to failures in infrastructure, such as ports, pipelines and refineries.
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Transneft now needs to dilute the oil with cleaner supplies to domestic refineries and export destinations.
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Motiva has considered acquiring oil refineries or taking over existing plants, but no deals were struck.
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But small refineries can apply for waivers if they demonstrate that complying would cause them hardship.
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Headquartered in Dallas, HollyFrontier operates five refineries with 443,000 barrels per day of total throughput capacity.
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A further $6 billion is estimated to cover downstream projects such as refineries and processing facilities.
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Sources close to the energy ministry attributed the decline to seasonal maintenance at oilfields and refineries.
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The refineries are set to receive some 185,000 bpd under the latest deal, the sources said.
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Because what's going to happen is a lot of these refineries are owned by foreign entities.
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"A lot of big refineries are coming back up and will start making gasoline," he said.
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Mobile refineries have also been targeted, making it more expensive for ISIS to obtain refined products.
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No significant impact was reported for oil fields and the belt of refineries around Galveston Bay.
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In 2014 parliament banned the export of metal ores, a clumsy attempt to boost local refineries.
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Its six domestic refineries have accumulated annual operating losses of about $5 billion in recent years.
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Crashing oil prices spurred record demand growth for motor fuels, which refineries worldwide scrambled to produce.
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However, more refineries have been shuttered in and around Houston as the threat of flooding grew.
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Many refineries, pipelines and ports that were shut due to Harvey 10 days ago are restarting.
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Russia embarked on a modernization of its biggest refineries in 2011 following a fuel shortage crisis.
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The $3.8 billion pipeline would carry shale oil from North Dakota to oil refineries in Illinois.
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These barrels are low in density and sulfur content, ideal for refineries that have simple configurations.
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Some refineries get up to half their supply from Venezuela, he said in an interview Friday.
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U.S. crude stocks also fell last week as refineries hiked output, the Energy Information Administration said.
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About half of Venezuela's roughly 1 million barrels per day in exports go to U.S. refineries.
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"Houston prices should weaken with more supply and limited new storage at refineries," a trader said.
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Oil prices could also get a lift from higher gasoline demand, as refineries use more crude.
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The Houston Ship Channel's oil refineries pollute nearby neighborhoods, and locals say they suppress home prices.
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The OPEC producer needs capital to replace oil reserves, revitalize production and overhaul refineries and terminals.
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Some of the biggest refineries and commercial oil storage facilities in China are located in Dalian.
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Petrobras, as the oil firm is known, will sell eight refineries in seven different Brazilian states.
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As it expands oil product exports, the kingdom has been feeding more crude to domestic refineries.
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Domestic refineries processed 2.611 million bpd of crude in July, up from 2.381 million in June.
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Beyond output, Venezuela's refineries and ports have suffered problems due to equipment failures and power cuts.
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Jinzhou, Tianjin and Huizhou are all where Chinese oil firms operate refineries and commercial storage tanks.
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Regulators are now allowing some non-major refineries to directly import and use imported crude oil.
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Last week, it took credit for blasting a Chevron platform, shutting the Warri and Kaduna refineries.
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Selling more of its coveted Maya crude could help refurbish refineries working at historically low rates.
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Its six domestic refineries have accumulated annual operating losses of about $4.53 billion in recent years.
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Exxon operates 22 refineries in 14 countries, processing nearly 5 million barrels of oil per day.
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In some quarters, Exxon would not have made any money were it not for its refineries.
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Plants around the area Many of these plants and refineries are located in low-income communities.
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BP has said it does not plan to build new refineries but will modernize existing ones.
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Some senators are happy with the administration's actions on refineries and are offering support for Pruitt.
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The storm impacted the company's Baytown and Beaumont refineries in Texas along the U.S. Gulf Coast.
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The Tula facility, Pemex's second-largest among six domestic refineries, is located in central Hidalgo state.
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CNPC, which controls both refineries, started to dominate the North Korea business in the late 1990s.
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Coastal refineries in the storm area account for a quarter of U.S. crude oil refining capacity.
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Two refineries, however, were starting up units despite the chilly weather driven by fierce north winds.
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In January Aramco said it was also in advanced talks to invest in refineries in China.
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It was also meant to be shipped to PKN Orlen and Grupa Lotos refineries in Poland.
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The company has touted the agreement as a way to improve margins at several domestic refineries.
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It supplies natural gas to homes and businesses in Southern California, including power plants and refineries.
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Some refineries in Texas are returning to operation while others in Louisiana could be at risk.
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He added the polluted oil was being partly mixed with clean oil and used in refineries.
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Saudi's local refineries processed 2.577 million bpd in June, up from 2.517 million bpd in May.
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Executives have said they are also drafting terms for the sale of two groups of refineries.
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Mexican and Canadian heavy crudes have competed for years for buyers among U.S. Gulf coast refineries.
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Massive floods caused by the storm forced several refineries to close along the U.S. Gulf Coast.
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Crude inventories fell by 6.5 million barrels as refineries hiked output in the week to Dec.
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Crude inventories fell by 4.6 million barrels as refineries hiked output in the week to Dec.
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The Niger Delta is the country's oil producing region and there are many oil refineries nearby.
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Well, there's Flint Hills Resources, which specializes in refineries, and Koch Nitrogen, which manufactures synthetic fertilizer.
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The investor pointed to EPA rules about refineries, which he has a significant financial interest in.
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Shelton said crude builds were common this time of year as U.S. refineries headed into maintenance.
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That's a real concern, but it's not the only reason we should be watching the refineries.
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Everything is bigger in Texas, including the number of chemical plants, refineries, and other industrial facilities.
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Coastal Texas has the highest concentration of oil refineries and chemical plants in the United States.
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Refineries have been swamped with scrap metal with more customers selling back their gold, dealers said.
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"Blackout in both refineries," one employee who works in the complex wrote in a text message.
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With U.S. Gulf Coast refineries shutdown, revenue from export and import trade with Mexico was lost.
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Crude inventories rose by 21.8,22017 barrels in the week to June 22018 as refineries cut output.
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The shareholders and their corporate owners are making hundreds of millions of dollars from these refineries.
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China's refineries, for example, cut their imports of foreign oil by about 453 percent last month.
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I also worked in other mining operations, from Michigan's Upper Peninsula to Montana's smelters and refineries.
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The trust idled sugar refineries and took over smaller competitors, limiting supply and driving up prices.
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The region exports 23,000 barrels a day, with the remainder used for domestic refineries and consumption.
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Five of Houston's nine refineries are shut down, though no serious permanent damage has been reported.
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Despite the volatility, prices ticked higher Wednesday, as some U.S. Gulf Coast refineries started to reopen.
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" Read more " Harvey so far has caused at least eight refineries in Texas to shut down.
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RMC was one North America's largest precious metals refineries before it filed for bankruptcy in November.
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Refineries are trying to make up for lower exports by luring domestic utilities with better prices.
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Chinese oil refineries operated in July at their slowest daily rates since September, official data showed.
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The only one of Lula's refineries to be completed cost $20bn, nine times its original estimate.
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Plans for new energy projects worth $1 billion, including the two refineries, were announced in November.
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Its predecessor, Harvey, shut a quarter of U.S. refineries and 173 percent of U.S. oil production.
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Zangeneh added that two refineries as well as petrochemical facilities were also planned in the region.
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Its predecessor, Harvey, shut a quarter of U.S. refineries and 8 percent of U.S. oil production.
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The price jump is expected to be temporary, if refineries can get back up and running.
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Last week, someone — precisely who remains to be determined — attacked two oil refineries in Saudi Arabia.
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Many refineries, pipelines and ports that were knocked out by Harvey 10 days ago are restarting.
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It granted full exemptions to all refineries where DOE recommended 63 percent relief, the memo said.
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The road wound past farm fields and oil refineries and through checkpoints run by nervous soldiers.
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Its domestic refineries processed 2.828 million bpd in December, up from 2.778 million bpd in November.
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Polish refineries have increased their purchases of seaborne sweet West African, U.S. and Saudi grades instead.
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Poland's energy ministry has decided to release mandatory oil reserves to secure output at domestic refineries.
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Instead, they're watching refineries around the world for signs that the oil price rally can continue.
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US oil refineries, which were mostly built decades ago, still require heavy doses of foreign oil.
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Gunvor runs three European refineries and holds stakes in upstream ventures, oil infrastructure and mining companies.
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MarketWatch notes that three refineries were idled while 6900 were trying to return to full operations.
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Shell, Exxon, and several other refineries in the area announced plans to shut down on Sunday.
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Meanwhile, maintenance and turnarounds at oil refineries are getting under way, which could impact oil demand.
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Nigeria's own oil refineries will have until 2021 to meet the new sulfur levels, Kragha said.
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State oil company PDVSA, which operates the refineries, did not respond to a request for information.
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Instead of complying with the law, these refineries were gambling that they could game the system.
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A KBC consultancy survey showed 40 percent of Middle Eastern and European refineries are not prepared.
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The weather event is pushing up gasoline prices because a number of refineries have shut down.
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I think what's more concerning is why those areas, why those refineries are not more protected.
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Four experts told us they did not believe the decision saved any refineries from shutting down.
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If it moves further east, it could put a few refineries out of business, Cashin added.
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Pemex has six refineries in Mexico which can process up to 1.6 million barrels a day.
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Pdvsa's American subsidiary Citgo, which operates three refineries, sends Venezuela gasoline and other refined petroleum products.
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U.S. crude stocks fell last week as refineries hiked output, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said.
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Andeavor operates 10 refineries in the United States, largely in the western part of the country.
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Some are confident the world's refineries will gobble up these barrels when they finish seasonal maintenance.
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Demand generally drops from October through mid-January as summer driving season ends and refineries enter turnaround stage (to get ready for next summer's driving season.) Gasoline starts to rally around Valentine's Day, as oil refineries gear up for summer using more oil to make gasoline.
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If all three sales are completed, including Anacortes, Shell would operate only three North American refineries: the 340,000-bpd Deer Park, Texas, refinery, a joint venture with Petroleos Mexicanos, and two refineries on the Louisiana coast that together can process almost 500,000 bpd of crude oil.
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"The refineries initially agreed on the dirty oil division," said one source speaking on condition of anonymity.
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U.S. Gulf Coast refineries shut operations as Hurricane Harvey was forecast to turn into a major hurricane.
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The restrictions this week caused LyondellBasell Industries and Royal Dutch Shell to slow production at two refineries.
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Barclays anticipates some countries will try to achieve cuts by doing maintenance on refineries earlier than planned.
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Inventories are rising during the seasonal maintenance period for refineries, when shutdowns mean they need less crude.
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The return from maintenance of some of the independent refineries also likely boosted crude imports in September.
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PES Holdings had been formed in 2012 to buy the refineries from Sunoco, which had operated them.
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The company has increased volumes of Canadian crude at its refineries to try to boost profit margins.
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He told the station that shutdowns can be some of the most dangerous times for oil refineries.
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"Gasoline fell as refineries in Texas began to reopen," said William O'Loughlin, investment analyst at Rivkin Securities.
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The state trader is contracted to lift some 240,000 bpd from Iran, mainly to feed Sinopec refineries.
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Phillips 66 said it has one of two refineries in the world that manufacture the unspecified product.
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In Europe, contaminated oil sent by pipeline from Russia has disrupted supplies to refineries in several nations.
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The high April inflows were a result of the strong appetite of small domestic independent "teapot" refineries.
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Still, some U.S. refineries have equipment specifically designed for heavy grades of crude like those from Venezuela.
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About a week ago, the administration granted 31 exemptions from the nation's biofuel laws to 31 refineries.
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One proposal will include reversing some of the waivers the administration has granted to refineries, sources said.
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The sudden suspension of imports from the Soviet-built Druzhba pipeline has disrupted supplies to European refineries.
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Petrobras said last year it would sell some of its refineries in the Northeastern and Southern regions.
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U.S. Gulf Coast oil refineries were not in the path of the storm and continued to operate.
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Set precedents that would also limit how regulators can attack other emissions sources, like refineries and manufacturing.
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Each year, during the switch over to winter fuel production, industry demand drops as refineries undergo maintenance.
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The stockpiles rose for the third consecutive week as refineries continued to reduce production for seasonal maintenance.
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Last week, the Avengers took credit for blasting a Chevron platform, shutting the Warri and Kaduna refineries.
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They can require companies to clean up oil refineries, cement production and other heavily-polluting industrial operations.
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It can boost refined metal supply by offering smelter-refineries an alternative feed source to mined concentrates.
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Riyadh expanded the latter over several decades as its domestic needs grew and new refineries were built.
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There are three refineries in Lake Charles, La. and another 10 in New Orleans and Baton Rouge.
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The utilization rate of its refineries was at 98 percent after 77 percent in the previous period.
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In Corpus Christi, refineries that shut before rains came released less pollution on average, the report said.
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Others saw potential for operational refineries to delay typical September seasonal maintenance to benefit from high prices.
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She said the firm would allow the trading firms involved in the matter to buy the refineries.
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Ramchandran said India's new and expanded refineries were geared towards processing heavy oil from the Middle East.
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Petrobras said in an email to Reuters that no decision has been made yet about its refineries.
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The problems at the refinery, Canada's largest, underscore concerns over catalyst releases at refineries around North America.
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The region's oil refineries are still recovering from Harvey, which shut production at some plants for weeks.
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The U.S. Treasury Department's sanctions do not entirely cut off purchases of Venezuelan oil by U.S. refineries.
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Many of Venezuela's assets outside the country (including refineries and oil tankers) could be seized by creditors.
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However, refineries can still import Venezuelan crude as long as the profits don't go to Maduro's regime.
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For example, Venezuela's four refineries have run at record lows this year as they lack spare parts.
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There's a concern that most Texas refineries will be affected for weeks, not just days, CNN reports.
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"This problem won't end until production at the refineries improves," said the manager of one service station.
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And new deep conversion units are being installed at local refineries to process more domestic heavy crude.
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Marex Spectron said that the demand outlook for coming weeks from refineries was strong, also supporting prices.
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Restrictions on travel near the ITC site forced at least two refineries to curb production this week.
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The trading house has three refineries in Europe but Tornqvist said the partnerships could include other assets.
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The blaze has not disrupted nearby refineries or shipping at the country's busiest petrochemical port, authorities said.
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In Washington State, 52 activists were cited for trespassing on railroad tracks that led to oil refineries.
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This is within Russian technical standards, but still higher than many European refineries are willing to process.
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That and a build-up in gasoline supplies are signaling less need for crude demand by refineries.
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But China's alumina refineries are themselves experiencing structural tensions rooted in the country's clean-skies pollution measures.
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It is one of Exxon's two remaining U.S. refineries that does not have an adjacent chemical facility.
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Last week a blockade of oil refineries led to panic among motorists as petrol stations ran dry.
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Domestic refineries processed 2.184 million bpd of crude in November, down from 2.564 million bpd in October.
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Power stations and refineries had been using 400,000 bpd before high temperatures boosted electricity consumption, he said.
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At least two major refineries, Sinopec Luoyang and PetroChina's Lanzhou, were shut last month for planned maintenance.
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Kaduna, with a capacity of 110,000 barrels per day, is one of Nigeria's three main oil refineries.
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Africa's most industrialised economy has six refineries, four using crude oil and two synthetic fuel as feedstock.
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The lines help carry refined products from the region's refineries to New York Harbor and Western Pennsylvania.
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Mr. Sarkozy took some similar measures to those of Mr. Hollande, forcibly breaking the blockades at refineries.
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U.S. refineries had been Venezuela's top customer, and output has fallen by some 0003 percent since then.
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Midstream are the pipeline operators and the people who move the product to refineries and to market.
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Shell spokesman Ray Fisher said the company's Gulf Coast refineries and chemical plants were monitoring the storm.
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In March 2018 independent refineries' crude imports reached an all-time high of 2.34 million b/d.
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Little change is expected in dry bulk, while in liquid bulk maintenance stoppages at refineries are expected.
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Under Pruitt, the EPA issued mass waivers for small refineries from their annual requirements to use biofuels.
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The program will target disadvantaged communities that are positioned near freeways, refineries, and other heavily polluted areas.
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Louisiana is home to large oil refineries and has many pipelines that cut across the Atchafalaya Basin.
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Oil prices were on the back foot, however, as refineries restarted in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.
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However, more obstacles loom before it can bring North Dakota and Canadian crude oil to Texas refineries.
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It has been upgrading its three refineries in order to produce better quality products and reduce pollution.
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The joint venture, which processes about 30,000 barrels of crude per day, operates two United Kingdom refineries.
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At times, protesters stopped collecting trash, went on strike at nuclear power plants and blocked gas refineries.
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The extensive infrastructure required to pump, move and process oil would mean rigs, refineries, pipelines and pollution.
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Two major Saudi oil refineries were attacked by a strike initially claimed by Yemen's Houthi rebel group.
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However, the type of light, sweet crude that comes from shale is ideal for many Chinese refineries.
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Russia embarked on a multibillion modernization of its biggest refineries in 2011 following a fuel shortage crisis.
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The source added that the sale of Petrobras' refineries may take up to one year to complete.
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Zimbabwe's platinum production now justified the setting up of base metals and precious metals refineries, Chitando said.
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Nigeria is almost entirely reliant on imported fuel because of years of neglect at its own refineries.
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Think, for instance, of the chemical and oil refineries that, damaged by Hurricane Harvey, started dumping waste.
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PDVSA blamed the supply crunch on unspecified problems for shipping fuel from domestic refineries to distribution centers.
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It applauded EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt for protecting small refineries, regardless of ownership, from the RFS requirements.
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That came as many refineries curbed output or conducted maintenance in the face of weaker profit-margins.
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A spokeswoman for Exxon Mobil said she was not aware of a planned strike at their refineries.
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Several refineries were hit by strikes in 2015 after contract negotiations stalled, forcing some to temporarily close.
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One area of investment would be in improving outdated refineries to stop costly fuel imports, he said.
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The policy requires refineries to blend increasingly large amount of biofuels — mostly corn-made ethanol — with gasoline.
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As refineries ran short of bauxite Henan province started cutting alumina production two months ahead of schedule.
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Organic chloride is used to boost the output of wells but can corrode the metal in refineries.
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For example, the oil industry uses steel for drilling and facility production at refineries and in pipelines.
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Because the storms affected oil refineries along the Gulf coast, gas prices are expected to increase nationwide.
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Its six refineries produced 275,000 bpd of diesel and 381,400 bpd of gasoline per day last year.
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Photos show the extent of damage caused to the Abqaiq and Khurais oil refineries in Saudi Arabia.
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To churn out gasoline, jet fuel and other products, refineries require a healthy dose of heavy crude.
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Carabobo was once a prosperous region, home to car manufacturing, oil refineries and the country's largest port.
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The extent of the damage was unknown, but similar fires have shut refineries for months or years.
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That increase would help address "excess waivers" doled out to small refineries last month, the document said.
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The complex includes two refineries, which together can process about 335,000 barrels of crude oil per day.
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The team noted that Dongsong's consortium included a Chinese state company with experience building refineries in Africa.
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Eni's refineries at Sannazzaro and Taranto have partially cut production due to planned maintenance, the spokesman said.
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The spokesman said Eni's refineries at Sannazzaro and Taranto had partially cut production due to planned maintenance.
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Instead, Ms. Butina responded that she could cobble together needed fuel from a number of smaller refineries.
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Petron Corp and Shell in the Philippines, Indonesia's Pertamina and PetroVietnam said their refineries were operating normally.
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Floodwaters continue to rise in areas, potentially jeopardizing the city's other refineries, already operating below normal levels.
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Behind them, oil refineries are rising under the direction of the country's smart, young, all-male engineers.
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Capline, the largest U.S. crude pipeline, currently runs from the Gulf Coast to refineries in the Midwest.
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But his administration has also frequently exempted small refineries from requirements to blend ethanol into their fuels.
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Six of Africa's new refineries - in Cameroon, Kenya, Mali, Rwanda and Uganda - shared output data with Reuters.
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Even as oil refineries restart, imports at reopened ports are likely to drive up stockpiles, Kilduff said.
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Six of Africa's new refineries - in Cameroon, Kenya, Mali, Rwanda and Uganda - shared output data with Reuters.
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But when it comes to building roads, refineries and power lines, China has left Russia far behind.
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Graphic: Iranian fuel oil exports, here Oil refineries and other processing plants need water mainly for cooling.
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"From 2022, that's six years away, we will need to import crude to load refineries," he said.
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Oil investors eyed further impact from increasing crude demand from U.S. oil refineries restarting after hurricane outages.
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Rosneft Trading has been mainly focused on supplying Rosneft's refineries in Germany recently, trade sources told Reuters.
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"The hurricane hit the epicenter of this country's refineries," said Allison Mac, a petroleum analyst for GasBuddy.com.
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Look, we've got big assets in California, California, we've got big refineries, a big oil field there.
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In the Niger Delta, Burtynsky shot illicit oil refineries, which dump tons of waste into the ground.
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With refineries offline, prices are now $85033 higher than they were before the storm, according to AAA.
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Fuel deliveries will be intermittent and depend on its ability to receive supplies from refineries and terminals.
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Crude dips on expected fall in demand from refineries, while gasoline hits more than two-year high.
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But the so-called teapot refineries were slow to buy the oil once it arrived in China.
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It has signed an agreement with an Indian company to help boost it further and repair refineries.
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This region, which is dotted with chemical plants and refineries, is no stranger to fires and explosions.
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The light oil is needed to dilute Venezuela's extra heavy output and for processing at Caribbean refineries.
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The move is a shift for Total, which has considered selling refineries over the last several years.
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Thohir said Pertamina needed to meet a series of targets including cutting energy imports and upgrading refineries.
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With refineries offline, prices are now $0.33 higher than they were before the storm, according to AAA.
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After that, however, the agency has been granting retroactive waivers to excuse refineries from their legal duty.
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Oil fields there have ready access to pipelines, refineries and the growing gas export market in Mexico.
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CN noticed a fall in fuel demand, which already prompted cuts at its Cartagena and Barrancabermeja refineries.
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But the refineries, like most of the company's facilities around the country, have fallen into grave disrepair.
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It is far less diversified than Chevron, operating no refineries or export facilities for liquefied natural gas.
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China's Sinopec is planning to curb runs at two of its coastal refineries, plant sources have said.
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Letting refineries off the hook for adding in ethanol shrinks the market for Iowa's corn-based fuel.
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Refineries in Poland and Germany agreed to process the dirty oil sitting in pipelines west of Belarus.
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Finally, you could build more complex refineries to process oil until reaches a higher octane without ethanol.
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Private companies could also apply to operate oil refineries and retail service stations under the draft proposal.
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Sanctions cut imports of naphtha, and Venezuela's ailing refineries struggle to produce enough of its own supplies.
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"It's all a matter of how much strategic stocks can be released because literally between German, Polish and Hungarian refineries, there are probably five or six refineries which are completely land-locked and there is literally no other way to supply them than the pipeline," one trader said.
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"I think we've probably run the course in terms of the price reaction," said Tom Kloza, global head of energy analysis for the Oil Price Information Service, in large part because refineries are rapidly coming on line and Hurricane Irma does not threaten any refineries at the moment.
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In addition, Midwest refineries have been running nearly at full capacity, and they source barrels primarily from Cushing.
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In refineries these collect petrol, propane and other components of crude oil, which have been separated by heat.
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It then sails north across the maritime border to Texas or Louisiana where the crude runs through refineries.
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U.S. inventories unexpectedly fell from record highs last week as refineries continued to hike output and imports fell.
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This problem may get worse in the coming weeks as refineries restart, venting more fumes into the air.
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Despite Pena Nieto's promise to modernize the sector, low oil prices have handicapped investments in the six refineries.
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Stoppage of oil flows not only affects refineries but also budget revenues from a loss of transit fees.
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Those sanctions faced opposition from Republican lawmakers representing Gulf Coast states, where refineries process heavy crude into fuels.
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC), said its three domestic refineries would be exempt until at least 2020.
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Some refineries have turned to supplies via other pipelines, but analysts say those alternative routes have limited capacity.
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Sinopec and PetroChina own the five refineries that officials said were pumping up runs to maximize fuel exports.
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The IEA warned that some simple refineries could be forced to shut down if they do not upgrade.
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The diesel market is relatively tight, supported by a cut in production by refineries in favor of gasoline.
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Refineries operated at the lowest level in nine years after Harvey, which hit the Gulf Coast on Aug.
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At least three other refineries were preparing to continue operation through Nate, sources familiar with plant operations said.
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The pipeline delivers crude to refineries including Marathon Petroleum Corp's Detroit refinery and Suncor Energy's Sarnia, Ontario facility.
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They were last used when unions blocked refineries for several weeks in protest against pension reforms in 2010.
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Cadereyta, one of Pemex's six domestic refineries, can process up to 275,000 barrels of crude oil per day.
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Within a decade, 5G will drive all U.S. factories, utilities, refineries, traffic management and help underpin autonomous vehicles.
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A 4.1 percent decline in prices and lower volumes, particularly in eastern refineries, drove the decline in June.
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Harvey has shut about 20 percent of U.S. fuel output after refineries in Texas and Louisiana were flooded.
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Pemex urgently needs to secure a source of foreign light crude to increase its refineries' low processing rates.
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Refineries sort them out, exploiting the fact that they vapourise at different temperatures to separate them by distillation.
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That requires less oil sales to refineries, which also have been working through a glut of refined product.
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Crude stockpiles rose unexpectedly last week as refineries sharply slowed production, data from the Energy Information Administration showed.
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The storm is not expected to affect U.S. oil infrastructure or refineries, so supply will be largely unaffected.
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Combine the slumping margins with labor costs and taxes and many Asian refineries now struggle to make money.
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"It all went up for tender and different refineries won different pieces (of the contract)," said one source.
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Valero's refineries ran at a utilization rate of 94% in the quarter, compared with 93% a year earlier.
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Small refineries can be exempted from the RFS if they prove that complying would cause them financial strain.
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Gunvor owns three refineries in northwest Europe with a capacity of just over 300,000 barrels per day (bpd).
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Installing such units can cost hundreds of millions of dollars and up to $1 billion for large refineries.
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Downstream operators might recalibrate refineries to focus on petrochemical products like plastics, while pushing further into natural gas.
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"We have just started really small quantities for their refineries, not on a swap basis," he told reporters.
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The new firm has a higher ratio of residue cracking capability at its refineries than rivals, he said.
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The rapid decline in inventories comes despite many refineries undergoing seasonal maintenance work ahead of peak summer demand.
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Europe regularly imports large volumes of the road fuel as the region's refineries are unable to meet demand.
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As expenditures continue to creep upwards, refineries could have no choice but to curtail production or shutdown altogether.
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Combined with other refineries running at reduced levels, over a fifth of the U.S. refining has been affected.
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With so many refineries shut down, gasoline is growing scarcer, and prices are set to soar for consumers.
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The waiver provision was intended to temporarily exempt smaller refineries so they could invest in biofuel blending equipment.
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The VLSFO shipments demonstrate that this type of fuel is a viable option that refineries could readily market.
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Some refineries are expected to shut down temporarily and many oil and natural gas operators have already evacuated.
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America's oil refineries are not optimized to process the type of crude oil that shale oil fields produce.
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Oil refineries, pipelines and shipping channels in the nation's energy center have begun a gradual return of operations.
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Kaddour also confirmed that Sonatrach did not bid for Hellenic Petroleum, one of the biggest refineries in Greece.
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Gasoline prices typically rise in the spring, as demand increases and after refineries switch to summer driving fuels.
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In the case of aluminum, smelters, alumina refineries and anode plants will all be affected to varying degrees.
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It would also give investors an incentive to build oil refineries in Nigeria, which would be lunacy now.
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And U.S. refineries are undergoing a heavy spring maintenance season, which has cut demand for light, sweet oils.
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Marathon is watching the situation, since the company relies on the facility to supply its Gulf Coast refineries.
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The four refineries shutting down have combined capacity to refine more than 840,000 barrels per day of crude.
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The $8 billion project is planned to run from Alberta's oil sands to refineries on the Gulf Coast.
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The amount of crude entered into refineries reached a record high of 17.73 million bpd, the data showed.
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Energy Information Administration data showed U.S. crude stockpiles fell last week as imports dropped and refineries cut output.
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The Keystone XL project also creates thousands of construction jobs and supports high-paid jobs in U.S. refineries.
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At the same time, Queensland Nickel (QNI), one of Australia's biggest nickel refineries, was forced into voluntary administration.
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Volumes of oil had backed up in Cushing until TransCanada completed a section to the Gulf Coast refineries.
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Further increases are likely in September after Harvey forced temporary closures of some refineries on the Gulf Coast.
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Shell spokesman Ray Fisher said there was no weather impact on the company's refineries in Texas and Louisiana.
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Capline is the largest crude pipeline that currently runs from the Gulf Coast to refineries in the Midwest.
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Imperial Oil Ltd is boosting its refineries' capabilities to handle more heavy oil, Chief Executive Richard Kruger said.
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Russia is still carrying out modernization work on its biggest refineries that has been going on for years.
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Planned maintenance is underway at the company's El Dorado, Kansas, and Woods Cross, Utah, refineries, the company said.
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It is then transported via traders to refineries for further processing, when it enters a company's supply chain.
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"The two refiners decided to buy Iranian Mix as it suits their refineries," said one of the sources.
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In many cases, refineries came back online sooner than predicted and helped prevent economic dislocation from fuel shortages.
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U.S. refineries will supply expanding markets during the transition, and energy economics ensures price effects will be temporary.
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On Saturday, strikes on two major Saudi oil refineries knocked out about half of Saudi Arabia's oil production.
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Ghadhban said he would seek to develop oil refineries by increasing their production capacity and reducing gas flaring.
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The development was a lifeline to oil producers, encouraging refineries around the world to run at full steam.
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But sources said these efforts can sustainably cut only a maximum of around 2 percent for most refineries.
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Forecasts for rising demand and the gradual restart of U.S. oil refineries after Hurricane Harvey pushed up prices.
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Venezuelan assets in the United States include refineries owned by Citgo, a subsidiary of state oil company PDVSA.
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The oil goes into storage tanks and, from there, via tanker trucks, to bigger tanks or to refineries.
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Hurricane Harvey caused toxic air emissions to spew from refineries in Texas that were forced into emergency shutdowns.
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"Refineries which are running at maximum capacities may instead run a little lower," one of the sources said.
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The West African nation has four refineries but decades of neglect mean it needs to import petroleum products.
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Even though the shale boom has provided U.S. refineries with more domestic oil, its properties have introduced challenges.
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On Thursday, oil prices were already going haywire as refineries in Corpus Christi shut down ahead of Harvey.
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One analyst told industry publication ICIS that five or six refineries could be directly hit by the storm.
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It developed an expertise in energy, erecting refineries, nuclear power plants, even an entire city in Saudi Arabia.
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The entire area, once marshy wetlands, holds roughly $100 billion in oil refineries, chemical plants and other infrastructure.
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That was offset by stronger performances from the company's merchandising business and higher sales volume from Indonesian refineries.
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YOU KNOW THE COMPANIES WE OWN LIKE CHENIERE AND THE REFINERIES, SO WE SORT OF GOT LUCKY, TOO.
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This was an additional batch of quotas to cope with a growing fuel surplus as new refineries started.
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They argue that because ethanol refineries are consuming so much corn, the cost of food is going up.
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But it is not yet clear whether small refineries operated by publicly-traded giants such as Andeavor ANDV.
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Gujarat is also home to large refineries and sea ports that lie near the storm's path, officials said.
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The Avengers took credit for blasting the Chevron platform earlier this month, shutting the Warri and Kaduna refineries.
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The U.S. energy industry relies on imported steel for drilling equipment, pipelines, liquefied natural gas terminals and refineries.
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Washington is the nation's fifth biggest fuel-producing state, with five refineries, according to the Energy Information Administration.
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Among measures being weighed are assigning small crews to keep refineries operating during an outbreak, the people said.
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The two refineries process crude from the Rocky Mountain region, while the Sinclair operation also runs Canadian crude.
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The bulk of waivers granted to refineries by the EPA in recent years do not meet that standard.
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The senators claim the program is essential for keeping refineries that provide tens of thousands of jobs afloat.
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A decade ago, Mr. Dangote and other private investors tried and failed to buy the government-owned refineries.
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It operates three refineries including the 430,000 barrels per day Whiting, Indiana plant, its largest in the world.
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Oil refineries, pipelines and shipping channels in the nation's energy center have begun a gradual return to operations.
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U.S. gasoline prices fell on Tuesday as traders priced in a continued restart of flooded Gulf Coast refineries.
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Current Russian supplies to Belarus' two refineries varied from 13,000 tonnes to 21,000 tonnes per day in January.
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Oil refineries, rushing to turn the crude glut into higher demand for fuels, have seen profit margins rise.
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A boom in U.S. fuel production has also made refineries here big suppliers to Latin America and Europe.
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Glencore was scheduled to visit Hellenic's refineries in Aspropyrgos and Elefsina, about 12 miles outside Athens, on Monday.
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Key fuel pipelines planned to restart as more of the oil refineries that feed them ramped up production.
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"Citgo operates across 19 states, with 48 terminals, interstate oil and gas pipelines, and refineries," the senators wrote.
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Some European refineries have turned to supplies through other pipelines, but analysts say those routes have limited capacity.
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The action at refineries aims to cause shortages at petrolstations, which has not occurred yet, according to authorities.
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"My favorite thing about Andeavor, though, is that none of its refineries were in Harvey's path," Cramer said.
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Right now, Hurricane Harvey is impacting gas prices modestly as refineries in the region have been taken offline.
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It also revealed the significant danger drones pose to the Persian Gulf's sprawling processing plants, pipelines and refineries.
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Russia halted oil supplies to Belarusian refineries in January 2010 after failing to agree terms for that year.
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"We have seen them purchasing petroleum products in order to lower runs through their domestic refineries," he said.
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The region's oil refineries are still recovering from Hurricane Harvey, which shut production at some plants for weeks.
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Last year, Hurricane Harvey lingered over the Houston area, where devastating flooding knocked out refineries and petrochemical plants.
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In August, the Environmental Protection Agency granted 31 waivers to small refineries, temporarily exempting them from biofuel laws.
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The storm came ashore first near the Corpus Christi refining center, and some refineries were moving toward restarting.
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Gasoline prices could initially be higher in any market that is served by refineries in the affected area.
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Vietnam has two operational oil refineries with combined processing capacity of 330,000 barrels of crude oil per day.
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Other refineries – particularly in California - are isolated from big U.S. oil fields and must also rely on cargoes.
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Oil platforms and refineries The Gulf of Mexico and its coastline are hotbeds of oil drilling and refinement.
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Small refineries, unable to afford the upgrade, may find they are churning out fuel oil without finding buyers.
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Harvey looks set to cut across offshore drilling rigs, but it's the refineries that are more at risk.
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PDVSA spent at least a decade trying to build business ties and boost shipments to refineries in India.
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About 15 Texas oil refineries representing 25 percent of U.S. refining capacity shut down, pushing up gasoline prices.
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Inventories are rising ahead of the seasonal maintenance period for refineries, when shutdowns mean they need less crude.
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PDVSA regularly imports gasoline, diesel, liquefied petroleum gas and refining feedstock to offset low production at its refineries.
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The Philadelphia plant is closing, but that leaves 47 refineries in the United States still handling hydrogen fluoride.
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The Philadelphia plant is closing, but that leaves 47 refineries in the United States still handling hydrogen fluoride.
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Many have their own pipelines, refineries and global trading personnel to sell their oil for the highest price.
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But many refineries, pipelines, and ports that were knocked out by Harvey 10 days ago are now restarting.
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Castello Branco on Thursday said one of the refineries could be sold by the end of the year.
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A spokesperson for French trade union CGT told AFP that 218 refineries had voted to join the strike.
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Earlier in the week, workers went on strike in the country's oil refineries, triggering a huge fuel shortage.
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A spokesperson for French trade union CGT told AFP that 262 refineries had voted to join the strike.
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As the government continues its assault on illegal refineries and barges carrying stolen oil, local militias are retaliating.
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" Craig noted that although refineries were starting to return to normal, crude oil prices were likely to be suppressed by "an influx of U.S. crude imports that will probably materialize as tankers sitting in the Gulf of Mexico waiting for shut Texas refineries to reopen get to offload their cargoes.
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It's less in one or two units, but I think that certainly will now trigger some of the thinking on how to build, to defend the defensive part of it but also how we build these big beasts of refineries or gathering kind of refineries, or just bringing the products together.
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As data become more valuable and the data economy grows in importance, data refineries will make all the money.
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That shift away from dirtier fuel will force refineries to use more oil and run at a faster clip.
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Rather, Chinese refineries have been diversifying their supply base, which makes sense from both a business and strategic viewpoint.
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Germany and Slovakia have yet to decide whether to release any crude stocks to refineries affected on their territory.
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The Southeast Asian city state is home to three oil refineries run by ExxonMobil, Shell and Singapore Refining Company.
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Brazil's oil company, Petrobras, increased prices for gasoline at refineries several times in recent days following higher oil prices.
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PES was formed in 2012, after two other refineries closed and political leaders urged Carlyle to salvage the facility.
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The two refineries that have shut have combined capacity to refine more than 450,000 barrels per day of crude.
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Bottlenecks for transporting fuel from refineries, distribution centers and ports to gas stations have also worsened, exacerbating the shortages.
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Lower runs at refineries in Europe and the United States also helped to tighten jet fuel supplies, he said.
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U.S. refineries processed a seasonal record 26 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude in the week to Nov.
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But small oil refineries can be exempted from the standard if they prove that compliance would cause disproportionate hardship.
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U.S. oil is even edging out North Sea Forties, which is produced in the backyard of the continent's refineries.
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India is the world's biggest consumer of petcoke, with most of that coming from refineries in the United States.
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Those refineries are owned by companies such as PKN Orlen, Grupa Lotos, MOL, Total, Eni and Shell, among others.
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Those refineries are owned by companies such as PKN Orlen, Grupa Lotos, MOL, Total , Eni and Shell, among others.
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Saudi's local refineries processed 2.767 million bpd in February, up from 2.758 million bpd in January, according to JODI.
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At most, seven of the region's 25 refineries were either down or at a lower production capacity, Gladden said.
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Reports that Asian refineries are asking Saudi Arabia for more crude oil are also weighing on prices, said Kilduff.
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He added output from for the two refineries would be reduced and deliveries of refined products from them blocked.
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The waiver program is meant to benefit small refineries who argue that blending in ethanol would cause a hardship.
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He wants refineries and he wants to modernize our ports so they can handle much larger volumes of exports.
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The lights from Augusta glitter across the water; the air smells of industrial fumes from the oil refineries nearby.
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It has drawn up plans to build four refineries of about 150,000 bpd each in the next 12 years.
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Several plants shut down to brace for the bad weather, but refineries and chemical plants have still been damaged.
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The company subsequently developed a Swiss trading arm, Rosneft Trading, which focuses mostly on supplying Rosneft's refineries in Germany.
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Demand for crude oil tends to decline in the first quarter of the year, when refineries close for maintenance.
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Crude availability is expected to tighten sharply over the next couple of months as U.S. refineries complete their maintenance.
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The administration also promised to offer more RFS waivers to small refineries—to the displeasure of the ethanol camp.
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State refineries, equipped with higher export quotas, are shipping out fuel in greater volumes and reaching more distant markets.
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Shell and Phillips 66 both operate oil refineries along the U.S. Gulf Coast near sites of the strategic reserves.
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As the shale revolution resulted in oil with no marketplace, some of the "zombie refineries" rumbled back to life.
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He added that even if all refineries were stopped, France's pipeline system would still allow the industry to operate.
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Really the target is can we replace crude oil in our existing refineries, replace it by waste and residues?
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Crude inputs into refineries have fallen by more than 1.5 million barrels per day since the beginning of September.
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Around 1,500 workers at three alumina refineries and two bauxite mines in Western Australia state walked out on Aug.
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The EPA has said its criteria for approving hardship waivers for small refineries has not changed from past years.
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In addition, the refiners ease local fuel shortages, part of daily life due to Nigeria's inefficient state-owned refineries.
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Higher margins should encourage refineries to maximise seasonal runs and spread the current tightness from products into crude stocks.
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The five refineries that still operate in the region can produce a total of about 700,000 bpd of gasoline.
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Saudi Arabia Refineries sank 3.5 percent after it reported a full-year loss of 4.0 million riyals ($1.1 million).
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He said it was due in part to the Druzhba pipeline contamination as well as maintenance at oil refineries.
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Petroperu operates a domestic network of four refineries with a joint capacity to process 94,500 barrels per day (bpd).
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Refineries will process 83.4 million bpd this year, compared with 82.2 million bpd last year, according to the agency.
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