Sentence examples for refinery shutdown from inspiring English sources

Quarterly profit at India's biggest privately owned petrochemicals company, Reliance Industries, slumped 15percentt because of weak profit margins and a scheduled refinery shutdown.

Even those experts who say that prices will not rise further acknowledge that the balance between supply and demand is so tight that any problem that affects supply, like a pipeline break or refinery shutdown, could drive up prices once more.

Their positions had reversed earlier this year following a refinery shutdown at Cushing, Okla.

Gasoline rose after a spate of unexpected refinery shutdowns threatened to limit supplies.

But this year, energy experts say, the local gasoline market is particularly chaotic because of the refinery shutdowns.

He cited the 1970s oil embargo and the refinery shutdowns caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 as appropriate thresholds for using the reserve.

In fact, Americans will pay considerably less for gasoline than they did last Labor Day weekend, when refinery shutdowns and Hurricane Isaac, which hit the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, heightened fears of gasoline shortages.

[C2.] Oil Prices Spike on Concern About Supplies Oil prices surged nearly $2 a barrel after a government report rekindled fears that summer demand and refinery shutdowns could tighten gasoline supplies.

[A12.] The new energy law weakens limits on exports of highly enriched uranium, a change opposed by people who fear the spread of nuclear weapons and by the top nonproliferation official at the Energy Department. [A12.] Concerns over Middle East supplies and refinery shutdowns pushed crude oil to a record $64 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange before a close at $63.94.

Concerns about winter oil supplies for the Northern Hemisphere and refinery shutdowns at facilities belonging to Valero Energy and Royal Dutch Shell also pushed up prices.

Sales dropped primarily due to numerous refinery shutdowns for maintenance, which also constrained the supply of gasoline in the spring of this year.