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To: buwaya

Well, I wasn’t talking military. I was talking food transportation. aka Trucks.

As to cut points you can vary yield of constituent parts varying cut point only if the temperature interface of the constituent parts is adjacent parts. It has no effect on gasoline production vs, say, asphalt.

There is no magic. If refineries could create desired constituent yields from all crudes, there would be no point in having an assay.

Like so:
https://www.equinor.com/energy/crude-oil-assays

Equinor’s assay page.

Select Bakken and anything with an API that is actual oil and not NGL, like Angola’s oil Girassol.

Have a look at the yields for temperature (cut) points.

Bakken is 30+% gasoline. 20% diesel.
Girrasol is 31% diesel and 20ish gasoline.

This matters. It’s not about pushing tanks around. It’s about tractors and trucks.

Apologies. I have seen Urals assay and I thought Statoil (Equinor) was the source but they don’t present Urals on their list, at least not anymore.

There are other assay pages. I think Exxon has one.


37 posted on 02/19/2023 3:07:59 PM PST by Owen
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To: Owen

As it happens, the US is a large net exporter of diesel.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-15/the-world-can-t-get-enough-of-us-diesel-as-exports-surge#xj4y7vzkg

Some of that doubtless comes from US refineries processing imported crude, from Canada Mexico and Venezuela. But between one thing and another the US is not short of petroleum or petroleum products, and isn’t going to be.


38 posted on 02/19/2023 3:45:54 PM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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