Specifically, Icahn cited widening crack spreads, or the difference between crude oil prices and the price petroleum products that come from refining the crude.
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Though the expectation of free return shipping can pose a challenge for small business owners who cannot manage returns as efficiently on their own, this should not discourage them from refining the returns handling process.
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It was made by the Coen brothers, whose own taste for slight provincial surrealism veers close to that of Mackendrick, but, far from refining his work, they have devised one of their coarsest pictures to date.
There are a lot of reasons this can happen: For instance, the big oil companies make money from refining and distributing as well as producing, and the investors in these stocks tend to push their price around in correlation with the aggregate stock market.
The management at ConocoPhillips has figured out exactly what its rivals at Marathon Oil concluded and acted upon only a couple weeks earlier: that by dividing the exploration and production business from the refining and marketing business, the sum of the two different operations (which attract different kinds of investors) are worth more than one integrated oil company.
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The third biggest U.S. integrated oil company will separate its upstream oil-and-gas exploration and production division from its downstream refining division.
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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.
It is also expanding its refining capacity from 14 million tons to 18 million tons by next year.
It is true he inherited a modest refining business from his father, and yes, his father made money building refineries for Stalin in the 1930s.
By that point Venezuela could also be a significant exporter of refined products like gasoline and jet fuel, as environmental controls and poor investment returns keep the U.S. refining industry from expanding to meet demand.
We do this by gathering and refining data from coalition and Iraqi operation centers, using a methodology that has been in place for well over a year, and that has benefited over the past seven months from the increased presence of our forces living among the Iraqi people.
Former PDVSA executives recognized that the U.S. was their primary market, and it didn't make any sense to allow foreign investors to reap the rewards from investing in heavy-crude refining capacity.
But Sarir and Mislah were damaged early in the conflict, and the regime has destroyed a pipeline booster station halfway to the port in Tobruk from where oil is exported for refining.
There would have to be a big negative impact on the refining industry starting 4 years from now to justify the current selloff.
Namely, beyond foregoing the obvious benefits that come from value-added processing such as refining (gasoline sells a lot more per gallon than the cost of a gallon of crude oil), we are incurring secondary costs that impact, in part, the very environment that radical environmentalists are trying to protect.
San Diego-based Qualcomm has been refining mirasol since acquiring the technology from a startup in 2004.
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At the same time, he was refining a method of transferring files from one machine to another across a network.
Without a new supply it would be reduced to earning a slim refining markup on crude it buys from well owners.
Okano has few peers when it comes to devising and refining ways to make such cases from stainless steel, magnesium or titanium.
The expected increase in manufacturing capacity would come largely from increased plastics capacity and an expansion in refining extra-light oil for export.
However, in view of its present high price, rhenium (used in highly fuel-efficient aircraft engines) is now recovered from scrap bimetallic catalysts used in the oil refining industry.
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However, net earnings from downstream operations could potentially suffer because of low refining margins.
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Rum is made from molasses, a by-product of the sugar refining process.
Beisdes, most rums are made from molasses, a by-product of the sugar refining process, so it starts with a recycled product, and that is a good thing.
Drilling further into the activity breakdown, the strongest upside contribution to IP again came from auto production, machinery, and oil and gas refining, which grew monthly by 4.7%, 5.2% and 5.7%, respectively.
What Five Guys initially lacked in fancy signage, comfortable seating and expensive equipment, it entirely made up for with excruciating attention to detail, the freshest ingredients and made-from-scratch offerings, and a dogmatic commitment to refining to excellence a focused menu.
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The result, if all goes well, will be a mixture of hydrocarbons that can be fed into the stage of the oil-refining process just before petrol and diesel emerge from the stills, and at a price that competes with the equivalent chemical mixture produced by traditional methods.
Admittedly, if you yourself aren't a flight sim junkie this may not be the most attractive controller in the world, but there's something to be said about a company spending three years studying, crafting, and refining a controller to make it virtually indistinguishable from the real thing.
We were fortunate to be awarded an innovation subsidy from the Belgian Flemish Government, which enabled us to keep refining our solution and keep hiring people.
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