refiner

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When the Middle East disruptions hit, jet-fuel cracks — the profits a refiner makes by refining crude into jet fuel — spiked sharply, said Nikolas Plonski, oil market analyst at Sparta Commodities.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026

Treasury Department imposed sanctions recently on a unit of Hengli Petrochemical, a refiner that it said has purchased billions of dollars of Iranian petroleum.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

Citgo is the fifth-largest independent refiner in the U.S., with more than 800,000 barrels a day of crude processing capacity across three refineries in Texas, Louisiana and Illinois.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

Large businesses were also affected, with major oil refiner Attock announcing it was pausing production at a key unit due to transport disruptions.

From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026

He had been convinced of his error by the refiner, who was willing to go and be 'hanged there if he prove not his assay to be good.'

From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by Stebbing, W. (William)