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New desulfurization catalysts will increase gasoline supply and reduce price

Much of the gasoline being produced in the US today is not marketable because it is too high in sulfur ...
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Tier 3 sulfur credit price doubles in May

Demand for Tier 3 sulfur credits caused the price to double in May. The best offer is now triple the ...
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Watch the coming spike in Tier 3 sulfur credits

Tier 2 sulfur credits spiked 50-fold, then D6 RINs spiked 50-fold, now the Tier 3 sulfur credit spike is imminent. ...
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The Tier 3 investments that never occurred

See this excerpt from Gasoline Desulfurization for Tier 3 Compliance on $3 billion of capital investments needed to produce Tier ...
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Why are gasoline prices so high?

We don't have a shortage of gasoline. We have a shortage of marketable gasoline. This chart, from an Argus Media ...
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US refiners face gasoline sulfur/octane pinch with Tier 3

Two key findings from Hoekstra Trading's 3-year research project on Tier 3 (10 ppm sulfur) gasoline were: The octane destruction ...
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Fuel economics – Why do Renewable Identification Number (RIN) costs pass through to fuel price?

A 9-year, multi-billion dollar legal dispute between EPA and refiners is rooted in disagreements about fuel economics. One of the ...
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Refiners rebuffed again on RIN price passthrough part 3 – does this wipe out 1/3 of small refiners’ value?

In Thursday's denial of 36 petitions for small refinery exemptions to their Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) obligations for the 2018 ...
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For making clean fuels, 14 US refineries bite the dust

By clean fuels here, I mean conventional (not renewable) clean gasoline and clean diesel that meet clean fuel specifications for ...
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Refiners rebuffed again on RIN price pass-through – part 2

Yesterday, EPA denied 36 petitions from refiners seeking small refinery exemptions (SRE) to their Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) obligations for ...
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