Sentence examples for when refinery from inspiring English sources

Then, when refinery construction started four years ago, it brought a boom.

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.

The stage for the run-up was set in late winter, when refineries typically acquire crude to meet high gasoline demand over the summer.

Senator Charles E. Schumer, a New York Democrat, said that next month, when refineries switch from winter gas blends to their summer ones, New Yorkers could see prices go "through the moon," rising by as much 40 cents per gallon.

When refineries, in particular, are shut by power failures, it takes them about a week to come back online, which limits the production of gasoline, cooking gas and other fuels.

The supply pressures have been less of a problem in February and March because those are weak months for oil consumption and a time when refineries traditionally perform lengthy maintenance operations in anticipation of the surge in demand that starts before summer.

He questioned why wholesale petrol prices had gone up seven pence a litre since Christmas when refineries were saying they had a glut of petrol and demand had been hit by wintry weather.

With crude oil prices at historic lows, Golden State drivers have paid $5.3 billion more than US drivers since February, when refineries started to go down.

Restrictions on flaring — when refineries burn off gases to relieve pressure during a shutdown, start-up or maintenance — have cut the facilities' sulfur oxide emissions by 96% since 2000, air quality officials said.

"When the refinery was working it used to refine around 10,000 litres of oil a day.

It was expected that when the refinery and fertilizer plants became operational in 2019, they would create at least 235,000 jobs.