Gasoline desulfurization for Tier 3
The MPC-PSX Stock Price Spread – Update Number Six
By Hoekstra Trading LLC |
Since 2021, I have tracked and reported on the relative performance of Marathon Petroleum (MPC, green) and Phillips 66 (PSX, ...
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Welcome to the Future – Part 2 – High cost of gasoline sulfur specification draws attention from refiners and financial analysts
By Hoekstra Trading LLC |
The price of the Tier 3 gasoline sulfur credit hit $3,600 in October, up by a factor of 10 since ...
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Welcome to the Future – Part 1 – Sulfur credit Investments Pay Off 10-Fold For Forward-Looking Refiners
By Hoekstra Trading LLC |
Last month, the price of the Tier 3 gasoline sulfur credit hit a new high of $3,600 per credit, up ...
Read More Sulfur Credit Strategy Pays Off For Refiners
By Hoekstra Trading LLC |
The price of the Tier 3 gasoline sulfur credits has increased 12-fold in the last two years, and the impacts ...
Read More Economics of Octane Loss In Gasoline Desulfurizers
By Hoekstra Trading LLC |
With gasoline margins surprisingly strong, refiners are focusing on economic costs and opportunities in cracked gasoline desulfurization. These opportunities come ...
Read More What Has Quintupled? Multiple Choice:
By Hoekstra Trading LLC |
A. Octane value B. Gasoline sulfur credit price C. U.S. gasoline exports D. Octane-barrel destruction in U.S. gasoline desulfurizers E. ...
Read More Investment alternatives for clean gasoline production in a volatile fuels market
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This economic analysis presents investment costs and returns for a hypothetical refinery with a 55,000 barrel/day fluid catalytic cracker (FCC) ...
Read More No let-up in rising U.S. octane values
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The relentless rise in octane value is seen in the U.S. average retail premium-regular pump price differential, expressed here in ...
Read More Quantifying investment options for Tier 3 ultra-low sulfur gasoline
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Hoekstra Trading LLC collaborated with Dr. Marcio Wagner Da Silva of Petrobras and Dr. Thomas Murphy of Valuation Risk & ...
Read More The MPC-PSX stock price spread continues growing
By Hoekstra Trading LLC |
This chart shows a steadily growing gap between the price of Marathon Petroleum Company stock (MPC, in green) and Phillips ...
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