refiner
Example Sentences
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Sinopec, China’s biggest fuel refiner, said demand for refined products fell 8.6% in the first half of 2026, due partly to EVs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
The refiner, Hengli Petrochemical, said its supplier had guaranteed the oil wasn’t Iranian.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
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
"India is a big importer of oil. Interestingly, they're a big refiner as well," he said, adding that the supply of jet fuel had been affected by restrictions linked to the war in Ukraine.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2026
A prominent refiner says that benzine is the first product that arises from the process of refining crude oil, and bears the same relation to naphtha that that distillate does to refined oil.
