Sentence examples for a lack of refineries from inspiring English sources

The tanker shortfall is just one of the pressures facing oil markets -- a tightness that runs throughout the oil production chain, from fewer oil discoveries to a lack of refineries capable of handling the lower quality crude oil that is typical of most of the world's additional output these days.

The market was already unsettled by evidence of a lack of refinery capacity to meet the world's growing energy needs.

The U.A.E., despite being the fourth-biggest oil producer in the world, relies on imports of refined oil products to fully meet its domestic demand, analysts say, owing to a lack of refinery capacities.

Floyd Norris writes that the problem is not a lack of oil, but getting it to refineries and then to market.

Mr. Robertson said a lack of financing had prevented him from reopening a refinery near Los Angeles, which he bought in 1998 to supply gasoline to the California market, one of the most expensive in the nation.

In the Midwest, where stocks have thinned so much that the oil refiner Premcor said last week that it had cut refinery runs because of a lack of crude, stocks fell to 54.2 million barrels.

The owners of the Grangemouth site have said they are "extremely disappointed" with a lack of progress in talks over a planned strike at the oil refinery.

Mark Tilly, a lanky major in the Royal Engineers, the British equivalent of the Army Corps of Engineers, had been running the Basra refinery since March, together with some Iraqi managers, but his progress was hampered by a lack of equipment and raw materials.

A lack of entrepreneurship.

Another 25percentt of the refineries are believed to be violating the law and are targets of active investigation, while the rest have not yet been approached because of a lack of resources, one E.P.A. official said.

First, a lack of competition.