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Senior Editor @OPIS, a Dow Jones Co. Covering petroleum. Proud husband, dad, family’s uber driver; weekend hockey player, youth soccer referee. Facts should be accurate while opinions are my own.
Revised National Parks Webpage Describes Harriet Tubman As Human Trafficker
07.04.2025 20:15 — 👍 5932 🔁 854 💬 168 📌 108Add your name to the petition to say NO to Tony Hinchcliffe's offensive comedy special with Netflix!
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25.03.2025 18:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Phillips 66 CEO says he is committed to idling its 147,000 b/d Los Angeles refinery by October. The downstream company previously cited increasing challenges for doing business as a refiner in California. LyondellBasell is also on track to close its 290,000 b/d Houston refinery by Q1 2025.
18.03.2025 21:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I stand with the people of Ukraine and Gaza and Russia and Israel. A few bad actors have caused unspeakable pain and too many losses of innocent lives.
02.03.2025 19:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0HF Sinclair CEO says the Puget Sound refinery in Washington state is undergoing a project that would increase the plant’s California-compliant gasoline production as early as March.
21.02.2025 02:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0CVR Energy expects maintenance work at its 136,000 b/d Coffeyville, Kan.,
refinery to complete by the end of March. It will use the turnaround to finish tie-in work to boost its distillate production by about 1,500 b/d.
My friend from beer league brought me this commemorative puck from the 4 Nations Face-off from Monday’s games. Going to be a historic championship game between Canada and USA.
21.02.2025 01:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“What is going to the penalty box?” is the contestant’s answer. Close but not quite right.
20.02.2025 00:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ukraine Ceasefire Wouldn’t Boost Russia Crude Oil Output, Which Is Self-Constrained by OPEC+ Target, Goldman Sachs analysts said in their latest research note.
19.02.2025 20:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Nikola filed for Ch. 11 bankruptcy and it is looking to sell assets and wind down operations. The electric truck maker will offer limited service, support for its trucks and hydrogen fueling network through end-March. After that, it said it will need to raise more funds to continue those businesses.
19.02.2025 18:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Republican lawmakers this week introduced legislation to impose a one-time fee of $1,000 for each new EV and to end the $7,500 federal tax credit for buying/leasing a new EV. The $7,500 credit offered since 2008 and other state and employer incentives have underpinned EVs' growth - OPIS
14.02.2025 22:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0On Feb. 14, 2018, a gunman identified as a former student opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, killing 17 people in the nation’s deadliest school shooting since the Sandy Hook Elementary School attack in Newtown, Connecticut.
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The bank predicts world oil demand to grow at an annual rate of below 3% into 2030, and may struggle to rise above 1% yoy after - OPIS (2 of 2)
13.02.2025 20:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Bank of America issued a bleak outlook on long-term crude oil demand, saying global oil consumption would peak in the early 2030s citing the displacement by competition from low-cost Chinese EVs and growing renewable fuels despite Trump's pro-oil stance - OPIS (1 of 2)
13.02.2025 20:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0RBC: U.S. tariffs on Canadian oil imports would raise operating
costs for Midwest refineries, which would have to make changes to process lighter crude or find other sources of heavy crude. Marathon, Valero, Phillips 66 and BP execs recently echoed RBC’s analysis - OPIS
PBF Energy's Martinez refinery remained offline after a Feb. 1 fire that injured six workers. It is 1 of 3 remaining refineries in Northern California and makes both California-compliant
gasoline and diesel - OPIS
Can’t wait to see Canada to face off Sweden at the 4Nations for some best-on-best hockey Weds Feb. 12. Also sharing some pond hockey pix, vid from earlier this year.
12.02.2025 00:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0BP could send oil from the Gulf Coast to supply Midwest refiners, which rely heavily on Canadian oil, but he admits it's difficult to predict how tariffs could affect refining margins - OPIS (2 of 2)
12.02.2025 00:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0BP's CEO expects the Whiting, Ind., refinery will run at full capacity this year, and the major will have less maintenance work at its other refineries - OPIS (1 of 2)
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