Sentence examples for distant refineries from inspiring English sources
In these plants, the viscous bitumen is separated from the sand, converted into crude oil and pumped away to distant refineries.
More distant refineries, with higher transport costs, would have trouble competing.But the market for fuel is still shrinking and tiny margins mean profits can be wiped out by small shifts in the price of crude or other costs.
About 70percentt of the roughly 1.2 million barrels of oil produced in North Dakota every day moves by rail to distant refineries and passes through hundreds of cities and towns along the way.
Why would you drill off the coast of Maine when you would have to get that oil to a distant refinery?
We found that persons who probably spent most of their time at home (females, retired-homemakers-unemployed, and persons of 75 or more years) had a greater risk of HM death if their home was close to the refinery than if they lived more distant from the refinery (Tables 3, 4).
Beyond it, the land lay table flat in every direction, punctuated only by some container cranes along the coast and the distant flares of an oil refinery.
Shahjahan Ansari, the wife of the oldest accused man, Salim Ansari, looked terrified when a stranger appeared at her door, at a hulking, trash-strewn public housing complex beside a petroleum refinery on a distant edge of the city.
Smoke in the branches, rain in the football stadium, weird distant lights, sun from odd angles at dusk, debris lit by refinery glow..
"Then finally, the refineries.
