That drop, which followed a 0.4% decrease in May, was largely driven by a fall in petroleum refinery production.

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Not least of the government's worries was a violent fire that raged at the country's largest petroleum refinery at Korfez, not far from Izmit.

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"The amount of gas that was taken off the streets today, is equivalent to one year's worth of carbon dioxide emissions from a small petroleum refinery in the heart of Los Angeles, " Johns said.

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The White House has argued that crude oil, despite its high price, is plentiful and that prices for gasoline and other petroleum products are high because refinery capacity is low.

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The pipeline is transporting crude oil from Greece to a refinery at Skopje, which was bought in 1999 by Hellenic Petroleum, the Greek state oil company.

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In 1995 the federal government decreed so-called Order 58-R, which set the volume of oil exports and obligated the Moscow Oil Refinery to build a factory for processing polypropylene-based chemicals, financed by petroleum revenues over a ten-year period.

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In November 2004, China's Funsho Kupolokum announced a joint agreement with Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to develop two oil blocks in the Chad Basin and construct a pipeline and refinery.

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