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Gold/Mining/Energy : Big Dog's Boom Boom Room
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To: schrodingers_cat who wrote (49766)9/23/2005 1:05:26 AM
From: Elroy Jetson  Read Replies (2) of 206110
 
I can assure you that gasoline is being imported into the U.S. in large quantity after hurricane Katrina. Refinery inputs are down and so is production.

It took a week or two, but when you're willing to pay $3 or $4 per gallon for gasoline, imports are available from so many places that you'd lose count.

I'm not certain what you mean by Naptha. All of what a refinery calls "Naptha" can be sold as gasoline or reformulated gasoline meeting the most stringent environmental standards.

The following refinery fractions are used in gasoline: (there are many more names but this covers the broad catgories)

Straight Run Naphtha;
Visbreaker/Coker Naphtha;
Catalytic Reformate;
Isomerate;
FCC Gasoline;
Alkylate.

Directing refinery output to either petro-chemical feedstock or gasoline production is entirely optional, although some fractions like extra light Olefins have to go to petro-chemicals unless you change the molecules through alkylation -- in which case they have become an Alylate.
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