U.S. refining capacity utilization rate hit 90% while the international utilization rate was an impressive 96%.
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Strong demand for offshore drilling helped the firm to boost the utilization rate of its fleet.
At 76.9%, the most recent capacity utilization rate is well below the long-term average of 80.4%.
Global production reached 1.54 million barrels of oil equivalent (boe) per day, while refining capacity utilization rate stood at 91%.
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In a subsequent email he called the Journal's methodology "severely flawed and inaccurate, " and said it understates the national utilization rate.
Then they can take responsibility for their personal utilization rate and not feel that the only way to seem efficient is to work without breaks.
Typically, the week-to-week changes in crude oil and gasoline inventories are reported, generally also with change in distillate inventories and sometimes with the refinery utilization rate.
Duplicative investment in China, and the consequent low utilization rate of capital investment, led to widespread industrialization and an explosive growth of human capital in modern manufacturing.
Additionally, ORBK noted that the flat panel display industry seems to be recovering from the lower capacity utilization rate environment it saw in the second half of 2010.
Other reasons include the depth of the recession and the continued slack in the economy evidenced by the low employment growth and the low capacity utilization rate.
"We're already struggling to get folks to come out and get help, " said Rieckhoff, an Iraq vet, citing just a 52 percent utilization rate at the VA. He said the issue is even more complicated for veterans because they have been trained to use guns, which in some places are an important part of their culture.
Manufacturing output was unchanged in May but the rate of capacity utilization across industries dropped 0.2%.
The rate of resource utilization is high, as can be seen most clearly in the tightness of the labor market.
Until companies increase their rate of capacity utilization from 77.5% to over the long run average of 80%, they will remain reluctant to hire.
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However, based on untested underwriting practices, a low interest rate environment and greater utilization than had been expected, many companies have seen much higher claims than they anticipated.
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For this group, a common factor in most plans is the utilization of a current market interest rate to convert the monthly pension to a lump sum figure.
Ethanol stocks are high, while production-capacity utilization is down at the unusually low rate of 85%.
We are also concerned that the company may struggle to maintain high manufacturing utilization, which could put pressure on the rate of cost improvement.
We will experience this as a fall in the unemployment rate, a rise in capital goods orders and a rise in capacity utilization.
Understandably, bottom lines aren't as robust as in prior years, in part due to slips in utilization, declines in investments and, in some cases, losses on interest-rate swaps.
The FOMC also says it continues to anticipate economic conditions, including low rates of resource utilization, subdued inflation trends and stable inflation expectations, are likely to warrant exceptionally low levels of the federal funds rate for an extended period.
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