Colombia, which depends on Gulf Coast refiners to buy and refine most of its heavy, sulfur-laden crude, now ranks 10th among the exporters of oil to the U.S. It shipped an average of 365,000 barrels a day stateside last year.
Since nationalization, Saudi Aramco, the state oil company, has produced and refined most of the oil.
In 1971, about 2000 oz troy of osmium was domestically refined, most of which was from secondary sources.
Developed in cooperation with the government's Ministry of Education, the Blue Box contents have been refined, most recently with the addition of awareness and prevention materials on the threat of Avian Influenza, with the focus on the importance of hand washing.
Those plans have been repeatedly refined - most particularly in the wake of the marauding attacks on Mumbai in 2008 and the horrifying scenes in Paris, Nice and elsewhere.
Tilson Thomas's other recording of the work, with the Boston Symphony (for Deutsche Grammophon), may be more refined, but most of the pieces here get authoritative performances.
Only the closing sequence of international folk songs was a little disappointing, primarily because the basso's concert ap proach seemed too refined for most of his chosen ballads.
Setup is drop dead simple – to add a component you simply press one or two buttons on the new device and everything "just works" and the remote control UI, refined over most of the past decade, has a cult-like following.
That's all way too refined for most of the White House Press Corps.
Because of its modest refining capabilities, most of Mexico's refined products are imported from U.S. and other refineries that process Mexican oil.
