refiner
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At least six companies have reached deferred prosecution agreements, including refiner Phillips 66 and medical-waste specialist Stericycle, acquired by Waste Management in 2024.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
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
Citgo is the fifth-largest independent refiner in the U.S., with more than 800,000 barrels a day of crude processing capacity across three refineries in Texas, Louisiana and Illinois.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
Large businesses were also affected, with major oil refiner Attock announcing it was pausing production at a key unit due to transport disruptions.
From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026
The refiner sits by his furnace; and the hotter the fire, the shorter the process and the more thorough the purification.
From Old Wine and New Occasional Discourses by Joseph Cross
