Tuesday, 03 July 2007

U.S. Refiners Increase Output of Gasoline, Work Around Equipment Failures

(Bloomberg) -- Refineries are working around plant
bottlenecks to boost gasoline output as government statistics
show they are running at their lowest rate in 19 years.

They are making more gasoline away from the crude processing
units that usually are key to their production, blending in
ethanol and processing cheaper refined products such as vacuum
gasoil. Crude units at plants including BP Plc's Whiting,
Indiana, facility have been down for months for repair.


Read more at Bloomberg Energy News

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