The refined oil will be sent north to Kosovo in a second pipeline now being built.
Refined oil can be hawked on roadsides to motorists, a practice that is illegal but common.
Solvents are sent the other way, to dilute refined oil that is to be sold in Mexico.
Thus, there should not be any shortages in refined oil products such as gasoline from this incident (especially as long as the LOOP remains operational).
Factory output is rising, consumer spending has been surprisingly strong, and for the first time in decades, the US is a net energy exporter of refined oil products.
"Even small distortions of assessed prices may have a huge impact on the prices of crude oil, refined oil products and biofuels purchases and sales, potentially harming final consumers, '" the Commission said.
Bush's plan, which aims to insulate consumers from high prices while fattening stores of gasoline and other refined oil products, will likely call for the boosting of domestic refining capacity, perhaps by building as many as 40 oil refineries over the next 20 years.
Here, too, it should be noted that the entire rationale of the ban on refined oil imports to Iran is that oil shortages will turn the public against the regime and the regime in turn will be forced to stand down against the international community in order to placate its gasoline-starved constituents.
The researchers said that extra-virgin olive oil was used in the study because it contains more polyphenols, which have been shown to improve cholesterol levels, than refined olive oil.
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So, with growing demand for gasoline and other refined-oil products driving the prices and profits for all refiners upward, and with companies like Valero reaping the rewards of a widening price gap between sour and sweet on the upstream side, sour refiners like Valero are going to continue their monster returns.
Both sides take a cut of the flourishing trade in petrol illegally refined from Chechen oil.
Another contingent believes that any oil refined here should be restricted from export in order to lower gasoline prices here at home.
There are actually several different crude oil markets because of how oil is refined.
Refineries profit from the difference between crude oil and refined products, such as gasoline.
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The wider the spread between crude oil and refined products, the more profitable refiners are.
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One reason is that there are actually several different crude oil markets because of how oil is refined.
The investigation relates to the pricing of oil, refined products and biofuels.
The Atlantic hurricane season is approaching, significant since the U.S. receives much oil from the Gulf of Mexico and oil and refined product from the Caribbean and Latin America.
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Pipelines uneventfully transport millions of barrels of crude oil, refined products and distillates each and every day, which according to government estimates, accounts for approximately 65% of all energy supplies used on a daily basis.
Opponents argue the oil would be refined and shipped overseas, although logistical experts dispute just how much might find its way onto the global market.
The Keystone XL pipeline would put Americans to work building the pipeline, would create additional jobs along the Gulf Coast where the oil would be refined.
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This, in effect, stretched product liability laws by claiming that oil companies that refined, marketed and sold MTBE-laced gasoline knew it would leak and contaminate water supplies.
Any policy to reduce heat-trapping pollution will inevitably target the main sources of Americans' energy: the coal burned by power plants for electricity and the oil that is refined to run automobiles.
Japan imports nearly all of its oil and natural gas consumption, and the earthquake, having wreaked havoc on select nuclear power facilities, will likely result in a sustained change in the composition of Japanese energy demand, including an increased demand for oil and some refined products.
Sending oil elsewhere to be refined will waste massive amounts of fuel for transportation.
We would have been worse off if we had tried to produce all our refined products from our own crude oil.
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Deserving of serious consideration are master limited partnerships (MLPs), which are publicly traded partnerships that own pipelines and storage and transportation facilities for oil, gas and refined products.
Another major commodity imported into the port is bulk oil, both crude and refined products as well as chemicals.
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The crack spread is the difference between the prices paid for crude oil and the price of refined products.
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