A move to higher oil prices would not necessarily generate corresponding gains in retail fuel prices, as new refining capacity has made petrol markets more competitive.

随着新增炼油产能使汽油市场竞争加剧，原油价格上涨未必会带动燃油零售价相应幅度的上涨。

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Though it has the world's second-largest oil reserves, the country is so short of refining capacity that it spends a lot of cash on importing fuel.

尽管这个国家的石油储量居世界第二，但由于提炼能力的匮乏而不得不耗巨资进口燃料。

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Heat from the fuel spheres is picked up by helium and can then be used to generate electricity-or to drive industrial processes such as oil refining and desalination.

燃料球的热量由氦带走，然后用来发电——或推动工业生产过程，如炼油和海水淡化。

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In recent years, Iranian interests have wound themselves into everything from resources for the Indonesian fuel industry, to Ghanaian banking, to irrigation and oil refining in Sri Lanka, to initiatives by Iran's Ministry of Agricultural Jihad (yes, that's the name) for projects across much of Africa.

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Meanwhile, Kior last month said it received EPA approval for a drop-in replacement fuel from wood chips using a pyrolysis process adopted from the oil refining business.

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The price of fuel oil is going up, the Times tells us, mainly because of refining cutbacks in the Northeast.

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