U.S. refineries running at near-record levels (8/1/2018)

For the week ending July 6, 2018, the four-week average of U.S. gross refinery inputs surpassed 18 million barrels per day (b/d) for the first time since the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) began publishing that data series in 1990 (Figure 1). U.S. refineries are running at record levels in response to robust domestic and international demand for motor gasoline and distillate fuel oil. ... More »