Because of its modest refining capabilities, most of Mexico's refined products are imported from U.S. and other refineries that process Mexican oil.
Induction furnaces are used mainly for remelting and alloying and have very limited refining capabilities; in other words, they are not used for carbon, phosphorus, or sulfur removal.
That may have worked then, but given the disruption to oil supplies and refining capabilities after Hurricane Katrina, the president should ask Americans to sacrifice by conserving gas and fuel to help avert shortages and major price increases.
Even the majors, which have both drilling and refining capabilities, are not immune to refining's tight margins.
"It can expand significantly. He told Forbes.com that the oil company, Russia's second-biggest, would be looking at acquiring assets in Europe to expand its retail and refining capabilities.
China has been actively investing in greater refining capabilities in the Persian Gulf, although in a sign of diversifying interests, they have also been cooperating with Kuwait on agricultural sustainability and with Saudi Arabia on telecommunications infrastructure.
Russian oil giant Lukoil believes it can transform itself over the next decade into one of the world's largest fully integrated energy companies, with an enormous retail presence across the U.S. and refining capabilities and oil reserves that extend far beyond Russia.
Hugo Chavez is already bringing Venezuela's considerable refining capabilities to bear: In September, Caracas pledged to supply Iran with 20,000 barrels of gasoline a day".
Most notable is the establishment of the National Training Center in the Mohave Desert in California where the US Army conducts live, force-on-force battles to refine its capabilities.
He said his laboratory had been working with electron beam experts at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories to refine the capabilities of the electron beams that are used in making the wire molds used to make the circuits.
