Quotes about Refinery

Restarting a refinery is a very delicate operation. These things can blow up. They are complicated, old and cranky.

Roger Diwan

The refinery business overseas is just starting to heat up. We should see continued growth at Graham.

Christopher Carosa

As a result of our limited capacity to refine crude oil, we experience higher fuel prices when faced with refinery outages, such as during hurricanes Katrina and Rita, ... My legislation will encourage domestic refineries to expand their capacity so that we are less vulnerable to price fluctuations at the gasoline pump.

Todd Tiahrt

We've shut everything down. We evacuated all our workers from the offshore platforms in the Gulf, shutting in production. We have shut down operations at our Texas City refinery.

David Nicholas

We really rolled up our sleeves on this. . . . Were the only state thats given a permit to a refinery in the last 30 years or so.

Steve Owens

Also refinery utilization was lower, which was also unexpected. It means that refineries are not using as much crude, so as a consequence of that we got a larger-then-expected crude build.

Marshall Steeves

What it might just do is move whatever gauging is going on back to the supplier or the refinery. If it has any positive effects, they are probably more symbolic than real.

Peter Andersen

If we want to add capacity in a hurry, they need to figure out how to speed up the permitting (for expansions), ... The economics for a new refinery don't work.

Bill Greehey

The first option is to see how the market values the refinery.

David Harpole

We've taken extensive action at the Toledo refinery since the tragedy of Texas City.

Ronnie Chappell

It is in Denver's interest to have a functioning refinery. It is good for the local economy and good for the crude market here.

Greg Schnacke

Wayne County and the State of Michigan offer unique opportunities for the creation of the bio-refinery model.

Paul Jacobson

We need every drop of gasoline for the driving season. Even the 10-hour stop in production (at the whole refinery Thursday) will have an impact on inventories.

A. F. Alhajji

Demand is outstripping supply and this is the bullet point of the problem. The U.S. refinery snags are adding fuel to the flames. Certainly, in the long term, prices will head higher.

John Brady

The problem is you can't build a refinery overnight it takes a couple of years, so what we're probably going to see over the next 18 to 24 months is continued increases in prices.

Dr. Matt Willen

He worked at a local refinery and was on the rescue team there, ... He brought with him a lot of knowledge.

Dale Jackson

It is hard to find a refinery anywhere in the world still producing leaded petrol.

Colin Mcclelland

We fully endorse the corrective actions required by the settlement ...to make the Texas City refinery a safer place.

Ross Pillari

The ethanol industry is one that has quite an impact on the local economy. One-third of all the gasoline in the country contains ethanol. What's more ethanol is added at local terminals. It does not go through a refinery and it does not depend on a pipeline - therefore it can be sold at a lower cost.

Monte Shaw

It still comes down to all the refinery outages in the United States. It still looks very bullish.

Michael Wittner

There's less crude being run now through refineries than there is loss in production in the Gulf. We're estimating refinery runs are down about 2 million barrels a day while crude out of the Gulf is down a million and a half.

Chris Mennis

Holly has been very good for this refinery. They've been very good to work for.

Dana Leach

We need the capital for a crusher and a refinery, that's what it boils down to.

Mike Conklin

We are looking at whether we should be in a position to expand or even build an upgrading refinery in Canada. Under current economics, also labor supply and the cost of construction, it is really difficult and really challenging make a decision to (build) in Canada.

John Lau

It is a very choppy market. The earlier hurricane threat did impact the U.S. oil market. Refinery runs were being reduced as workers got evacuated. Now Emily looks to be approaching.

Keiichi Sano

The market has coped very well with the hurricane situation on the surface, particularly on the refinery side.

Lawrence Eagles

Lower refinery utilization is contributing to a build-up in crude oil, but reducing the oversupply in petroleum products.

Merrill Lynch

The biggest thing that seems to be out right now is the refinery capacity down there (the Gulf Coast), and they are also having problems getting oil from the Gulf Coast to some of the Midwest refineries.

Greg Stringham

It seems every day there's a story of a refinery with a problem.

Rick Mueller

There is a lot of refinery capacity around Houston. If (Hurricane Rita) goes further south then it could hit refineries around Corpus Christi.

Mike Wittner

We can build a 50-foot concrete wall around a refinery, it just costs a whole lot of money, ... That kind of storm is extremely rare. At some point, somebody said, 'This is a risk I can live with.'Ÿ.

Chris Johnson

If you're talking about a 400,000 barrels per day refinery next to a French Chateau in the Loire valley, the timeline is infinite. If you're looking at an industrialized part that already includes an oil refinery, it's much less of a big deal.

Tim Evans

The oil price increase surely will have impact on China's economy as 40 percent of oil consumed in the country is imported, ... especially on some sectors, like agricultural means of production, oil refinery and public transport. But the impact is limited.

Zheng Jingping

With today's technology, a new refinery could be really clean - far cleaner than today's refineries - in theory.

Eric Schaeffer

That's the last thing we need is to see another refinery shut out. We have a tight situation without this storm existing and now you add to this another storm, that could cause financial devastation.

Ed Silliere