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  1. MARKET WATCH: Crude oil, natural gas prices retreat

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    Thu, 25 Aug 2011

    the second week in a row (down 0.9%) and remains modestly lower on a year-over-year basis. Turning to refining , utilization rose to 90.3% (matching its high) last week from 89.1%. The mixed inventories report had a negligible

  2. MARKET WATCH: Oil climbs near $83/bbl; gas closes at $4/MMbtu in New York

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    Thu, 11 Aug 2011

    3% sequentially, but remains down 0.1% year-over-year on a 4-week moving average basis. Turning to refining , utilization rose to 90.0% last week from 89.3%, and is just 0.3% below its high for the year. Energy prices The

  1. MARKET WATCH: Energy prices rise with economic recovery

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    Tue, 4 May 2010

    Administration will report May 5 another increase in oil inventories. “Incentivized by high crack-spreads, refining utilization has been going up recently,” said analysts at Pritchard Capital Partners LLC in New Orleans. “We expect

  2. Global downturn will narrow 2009-10 margins, utilizations for Asia-Pacific

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    Mon, 1 Jun 2009

    Pacific are the main reasons for the cuts in refining throughput. CPC should be able to maintain its overall refining utilization at slightly more than 70% because state-owned CPC Corp. holds about three quarters of the domestic market

  3. SPECIAL REPORT: Capacity, complexity expansions characterize China's refining industry past, present, future

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    Mon, 7 Mar 2011

    from vigorous expansion of both CNPC and Sinopec, plus the flourishing of small refineries, China's overall refining utilization rate, defined as the share of throughput in total capacity, was low in the 1990s. In 1998, the overall refinery

  4. CERA: Refiners face change in liquids supply composition

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    Thu, 14 Feb 2008

    of 1.6%/year. "Therefore, if refiners continue to build crude processing capacity on the 1.6% rate, refining utilization rates and margins would fall," CERA said. "Rising demand for gasoline and diesel in recent years has led refiners

  5. CERA: Refiners face change in liquids supply composition

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    Mon, 25 Feb 2008

    1.6%/year. “Therefore, if refiners continue to build crude processing capacity on the 1.6% rate, refining utilization rates and margins would fall,” CERA said. “Rising demand for gasoline and diesel in recent years has led refiners

  6. US oil, gas demand rising again in 2005

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    Mon, 4 Jul 2005

    third quarter, when demand typically peaks, were exacerbated when second quarter demand was unusually strong and refining utilization high. Click here to enlarge image The near-month closing price of crude on the New York Mercantile Exchange reached

  7. Louisiana refinery revamp takes advantage of heavy sour argins

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    Mon, 9 Nov 1998

    rationalization of refining capacity in the 1980s, refining utilization increased in the early 1990s. In 1994, the company ..... has remained relatively flat. API data show that refining utilization has increased from 65% in 1983 to as high as 97

  8. China's refining sector challenges: surging demand, rising imports of sour crudes, new business models

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    Mon, 19 Feb 2001

    later in this article. Click here to enlarge image Refining utilization rates are closely related to crude runs, which ..... expansion, increasing crude runs, and rising refining utilization rates, net product imports into China through