Gasoline desulfurization for Tier 3
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
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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:
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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
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This chart shows a steadily growing gap between the price of Marathon Petroleum Company stock (MPC, in green) and Phillips ...
Read More Breaking the chains part 3 – Late demand for Tier 3 credits drives credit price up 5-fold in 2022
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If you buy premium gasoline you’ve probably noticed its price differential versus regular has been increasing. That is a sign ...
Read More Breaking the Chains Part 2 – solutions for the Tier 3 gasoline octane-sulfur bottleneck
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A meeting in Washington D.C. In June 2022, U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm called senior refining executives to Washington DC ...
Read More Breaking the Chains Part 1 – How the Tier 3 ultra-low sulfur gasoline mandate is handcuffing U.S. gasoline production
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A commodity that's gone straight up While the stock market, crude oil, fuel prices, and cryptocurrencies have gone up and ...
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