This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on July 30, 2024. By Kevin Hack, Julie Harris U.S. refining capacity increased this year for the second time since the COVID-19 pandemic, according to [Read more]
This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on July 10, 2024. By Kevin Hack This spring, California refinery crack spreads for gasoline and diesel dipped below average despite shrinking refinery capacity on the West [Read more]
Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews Joanna Kyriazis of Clean Energy Canada about Quebec’s decision to ban the sale of gasoline-powered cars by 2035. They also discuss other jurisdictions like California and the [Read more]
By Steve Hanson, Neil Agarwal This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on June 25, 2019. Crude oil inputs to Mexico’s petroleum refineries declined for the fifth consecutive year in 2018, falling [Read more]
Gasoline pricing Gasoline’s retail price at the pump consists of the following major components. Changes in any of those components can affect gasoline prices in different regions (In addition to these factors, the switch from winter [Read more]
Saudi Aramco, the state-run oil giant of Saudi Arabia, says it is looking to develop more efficient fuels and sophisticated combustion engines to help reduce CO2 emissions and secure the company’s business. [Read more]
US refining margins are down due to high refinery output along with flattening year-over-year growth in gasoline demand in the United States. Phillips 66 photo. US refining margins hit five-year low By Sean Hill, Corrina Ricker [Read more] [Read more]
Global oil markets are increasingly over-supplied with light distillates, such as gasoline, while there are not enough middle distillates, such as diesel, which has opened a big price differential between the two fuels. McEvoy Oil [Read more]
Traffic volumes in the United States are down compared to 2017, according to the US Federal Highway Administration, while oil prices have risen. The US EIA predicts consumption will decline by around 10,000 barrels per [Read more]
US Refiners have carried on processing at elevated rates well after the end of the normal summer driving season and into September in order to rebuild previously depleted distillate stocks. Phillips 66 photo. US refiners will [Read more]
US refineries are running at record levels in response to robust domestic and international demand for motor gasoline and distillate fuel oil. Phillips 66 photo. US refineries responding to high demand for motor gasoline and [Read more]
Petro-Canada says its brand strategy and corresponding creative campaign are based on research showing that Canadians are increasingly making more conscious decisions about the brands they support. Company image. Petro-Canada unveils new brand platform On [Read more]
The rate of growth in traffic volumes has been slowing consistently since early 2016, coinciding with the rise in gasoline prices, after accelerating during 2014/15, coinciding with the previous oil price slump. Houston Chronicle photo [Read more]
Electricity consumption is higher in all cases Autonomous vehicles are one of the main sources of uncertainty in the future of U.S. transportation energy consumption, as autonomous vehicle technology has the potential to change travel [Read more]
US distillate inventories have fallen since Jan. and were estimated to have fallen lower than the five-year range as of May 18 During the spring and summer months, gasoline futures prices are generally higher than distillate futures [Read more]
The Alberta carbon tax on gasoline increased on 1 Jan. 2018 to 6.73 cents/L, BC to 7.78 cents/L Gasoline prices in Canada have been increasing from this decade’s low of 90.2 cents per litre (cents/L) on average in Feb. 2016. In April 2018, [Read more]
Midwest reduced need to draw supplies from Gulf Coast because refineries are now running at higher rates and increased capacity More than half of all U.S. motor gasoline exports went to Mexico in 2017. Changes [Read more]
About two-thirds of households with BEVs or PHEVs have incomes higher than $100,000 Electrified vehicles (hybrid electric, plug-in hybrid electric, and battery electric) have been sold as high fuel economy alternatives to conventional gasoline vehicles [Read more]
Reuters’ sources say that under the Trump administration’s soon-to-be-unveiled overhaul of the US Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), the number of biofuels waivers for small refineries will be cut and ethanol exports could rise. Des Moines [Read more]
Greater GDP growth has potential to increase oil consumption beyond forecasted levels, putting upward pressure on crude oil prices EIA’s May Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO) forecasts that Brent crude oil prices will average $71 per barrel (b) [Read more]
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