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The Chinese central government has implemented various measures since September 1, 2005 to retain the country's gasoline output for domestic use after key eastern and southern coastal provinces and cities reported acute shortages between mid-July and end-August 2005. The figures obtained from the Chinese General Administration of Customs showed that Asia's largest gasoline exporter, China, exported only 160,000-mt in the month of October 2005 hitting a 21-month low.

INDONESIA -- The government was braced for mass protests when it introduced product price hikes on Oct. 1 as part of plans to reduce the high cost of fuel subsidies. [...]

A few large refineries under Chinese integrated oil group Sinopec Corp. have adjusted their product yields in September 2005 at the expense of naphtha output for petrochemicals to ease gasoline shortages in the domestic market. Beijing has taken steps to prevent the flow of gasoline overseas, including a temporary removal of a tax rebate on gasoline and naphtha exports and has suspended all exports of gasoline by Chinese refineries under third-party processing deals.

* Product prices fluctuated wildly while gasoline soared ahead of Hurricane Ivan's arrival on the Gulf coast. The storm finally landed 200 miles east of the country's heaviest refining region, [...]

U.S. regulators describe the state of petroleum inventories as 'tight as a stretched rubber band,' adding that 'whether the rubber band breaks or not will largely depend on the pace [...]

Venezuelan state-owned oil company PdV is to boost gasoline production and heavy oil conversion capacity at its 305,000 b/d Cardon refinery, through a debottlenecking project during the first turnaround of [...]

After plunking down $170 million to buy BP's Yorktown, Va., refinery in May, cash-strapped Giant Industries says it won't be able to produce low-sulfur gasoline by 2004. In a 'hardship' [...]

Many experts believe that last week's API report may reflect the high water mark for demand this Summer. Implied demand for gasoline hit 9.725-million b/d. Critics note that API stats [...]

Radical change looms in the Brent market. This week, Platts is shifting its methodology to include Forties and Oseberg in its assessment of dated Brent, the world's leading benchmark. Last [...]

Current cracking economics have pushed petrochemical companies towards natural gasoline rather than non-Tet normal butane. US petrochemical company Huntsman reports that only 5pc of its feedstock slate is fractionator-grade normal [...]

Supplies expanded by 3.8 million bbls, calming fears that stocks were shrinking prior to the spring driving season. Inventory declines the prior week prompt some concern. Despite the fact that [...]

Venezuela's PdV has awarded an $81mn contract to a Japanese-Venezuelan consortium to expand the 54,000 b/d fluid catalytic cracker (FCC) at its 135,000 b/d El Palito refinery. The FCC, which [...]

There has been plenty of attention paid to refinery run cuts, and indeed, processors are running 1-million b/d less crude than they did in the Fall, putting operations about 725,000 [...]

Gasoline stocks rose by more than 2-million bbl last week and there are large year-on-year surpluses in all markets but the West Coast. Talk of refinery run cuts swept through [...]

UK energy minister Brian Wilson this week stressed the importance of nuclear power for Britain's continuing energy security. The alternative, he said, would be a 70pc dependence on gas, with [...]

Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) stood up for U.S. refiners Wednesday at a subcommittee markup of legislation funding the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The subcommittee passed by voice vote the bill [...]

WASHINGTON -- Crude stocks for the week ended June 30 climbed as crude runs and refinery use declined and increasing volumes of imports arrived, according to the weekly inventory report [...]

Make gasoline, not emissions, scientists say Power plants could reduce their [CO.sub.2] emissions in the future by using them in gasoline production. The 1988 Toronto Resolution requires [CO.sub.2] emissions to [...]

Long-Term Profit Opportunity Follows Steep Drop in Surplus Gasoline Capability A sharp decline in surplus gasoline capability has created new long term profit opportunity for U.S. refiners--the first such opportunity [...]

WELLINGTON, N.Z. -- The world's first commercial-scale plant to convert natural gas to gasoline has started production at Motunui, New Zealand, Mobil Corp. said. The $1.2 billion plant, using a [...]

UOP Penex/Molex Picked By Kuwait Europoort Plant DES PLAINES, Ill. -- UOP Inc. has been selected as licensor for new gasoline manufacturing facilities to be installed at the Kuwait Petroleum [...]