distillate
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Clean fuels companies built 7 billion gallons of capacity for renewable diesel and biodiesel—enough to meet 10% of U.S. distillate demand—and since March have added production capacity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Privorotsky also warns that even if the U.S. now decides to “aggressively de-escalate” that “crude is just one component of the problem as distillate, gasoil, diesel and critically, European natural gas have all broken out.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
“WTI can be pulled higher by a strong distillate market since key refiners beyond the East and West coasts that represent about 80% of U.S. capacity are still running virtually full-out.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Gasoline inventories also fell from last week and are 6% below their five-year average, while inventories of distillate fuel such as diesel are about 12% below their five-year average.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
As for postmedieval petroleum distillation, 19th-century chemists found the middle distillate fraction useful as fuel for oil lamps.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
