refiner
Example Sentences
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When the Middle East disruptions hit, jet-fuel cracks — the profits a refiner makes by refining crude into jet fuel — spiked sharply, said Nikolas Plonski, oil market analyst at Sparta Commodities.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 4, 2026
"India is a big importer of oil. Interestingly, they're a big refiner as well," he said, adding that the supply of jet fuel had been affected by restrictions linked to the war in Ukraine.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2026
Oil refiner Marathon Petroleum and oil exploration company APA Corp. gained 4.9% and 4.5%, respectively.
From Barron's ● Mar. 24, 2026
Hungary has capped fuel prices, while Poland’s main refiner has cut its margins to reduce the hit to consumers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
A prominent refiner says that benzine is the first product that arises from the process of refining crude oil, and bears the same relation to naphtha that that distillate does to refined oil.
