distillate

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From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

Gasoline inventories were forecast to have fallen by 2.6 million barrels and distillate stocks were expected to have fallen by 2.1 million barrels.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

“Middle distillate crack spreads remain very high, and will be a more important driver of earnings and cash flow than volume,” Jefferies says.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

“With the loss of Port Arthur, your distillate crisis has gone up another level,” said Paul Sankey, analyst of Sankey Research, at an energy conference in Houston on Tuesday.

From Barron's • Mar. 24, 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