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At a refinery, gasoline is produced to regulatory or customer demanded specifications, and exceeding these specifications is considered gasoline quality giveaway, costing individual refineries millions of dollars a year. What is gasoline quality giveaway? Let’s say a gas station selling premium gasoline as 91 octane – this is a specification. If a refinery produces a… read more →
While its existence is undesirable, gasoline giveaway is often regarded as a necessary evil. Most refineries have some sort of system in place to record octane and volatility giveaway and track their own performance against industry metrics. However, many refineries fall short of doing everything they can to actively track giveaway, set aggressive targets to… read more →
Butane is one of the most important components in gasoline blending and arguably one that could provide the most economic benefit to the bottom line of more and more skinny refinery margins. Butane has a high octane and high RVP which makes it the ideal component to improve the quality of gasoline blends, especially in… read more →
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