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To: thackney

expanded refineries are a good thing but most companies don't want to upgrade to process cheap sour and the ones that upgraded have record maintenance periods which offsets much increased capacity periods.


109 posted on 09/08/2005 4:31:05 PM PDT by tobyhill (The War on Terrorism is not for the weak.)
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To: tobyhill
the ones that upgraded have record maintenance periods which offsets much increased capacity periods.

You claiming that downtime has increased that negates the increaded capacity? That seems hard to substantiate given that the actual production through the US refineries has grown over the last decade. Granted, it has not grown enough, but it has grown.

110 posted on 09/08/2005 4:43:24 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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