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New desulfurization catalysts will increase gasoline supply and reduce price
By Hoekstra Trading LLC |
Much of the gasoline being produced in the US today is not marketable because it is too high in sulfur ...
Read More Tier 3 sulfur credit price doubles in May
By Hoekstra Trading LLC |
Demand for Tier 3 sulfur credits caused the price to double in May. The best offer is now triple the ...
Read More Watch the coming spike in Tier 3 sulfur credits
By Hoekstra Trading LLC |
Tier 2 sulfur credits spiked 50-fold, then D6 RINs spiked 50-fold, now the Tier 3 sulfur credit spike is imminent. ...
Read More The Tier 3 investments that never occurred
By Hoekstra Trading LLC |
See this excerpt from Gasoline Desulfurization for Tier 3 Compliance on $3 billion of capital investments needed to produce Tier ...
Read More Why are gasoline prices so high?
By Hoekstra Trading LLC |
We don't have a shortage of gasoline. We have a shortage of marketable gasoline. This chart, from an Argus Media ...
Read More US refiners face gasoline sulfur/octane pinch with Tier 3
By Hoekstra Trading LLC |
Two key findings from Hoekstra Trading's 3-year research project on Tier 3 (10 ppm sulfur) gasoline were: The octane destruction ...
Read More Fuel economics – Why do Renewable Identification Number (RIN) costs pass through to fuel price?
By Hoekstra Trading LLC |
A 9-year, multi-billion dollar legal dispute between EPA and refiners is rooted in disagreements about fuel economics. One of the ...
Read More Refiners rebuffed again on RIN price passthrough part 3 – does this wipe out 1/3 of small refiners’ value?
By Hoekstra Trading LLC |
In Thursday's denial of 36 petitions for small refinery exemptions to their Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) obligations for the 2018 ...
Read More For making clean fuels, 14 US refineries bite the dust
By Hoekstra Trading LLC |
By clean fuels here, I mean conventional (not renewable) clean gasoline and clean diesel that meet clean fuel specifications for ...
Read More Refiners rebuffed again on RIN price pass-through – part 2
By Hoekstra Trading LLC |
Yesterday, EPA denied 36 petitions from refiners seeking small refinery exemptions (SRE) to their Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) obligations for ...
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