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NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center and reporting summarize the 2025–26 winter outlook as favoring above‑normal temperatures across much of the U.S. East, Southeast, Gulf Coast, Texas, Southwest and Cali...
U.S. operable refinery distillation capacity hovered around 18.4 million barrels per calendar day (b/cd) at the start of 2024–2025, essentially flat year‑over‑year, though EIA projects capacity to fal...
No provided source contains a contemporaneous, line‑item "asset inventory" that explicitly marks delayed coker or hydrocracker units as delayed; therefore it is not possible from the reporting supplie...
Oprah Winfrey’s philanthropic and education partnerships center on the Oprah Winfrey Charitable Foundation and its long-running investments in schooling and scholarships — most notably the Oprah Winfr...
The best-supported figure for the U.S. average retail price of gasoline in 2017 is approximately , based on monthly-average data and EIA reporting. Sources provided show minor variations around that m...
have historically inflicted their heaviest infrastructure damage in parts of the and —states such as , and repeatedly rank among the worst-hit because heavy ice accumulations there collapse trees and ...
The available data through November 8, 2025 shows , but published averages differ by data source and publication date because agencies use different collection methods and update cadences. Key federal...
Gulf Coast cokers and hydrocrackers have historically enabled heavy, sour crude to be converted into valuable light fuels, but that upgrading comes with local environmental burdens—higher sulfur, hydr...
A Gulf Coast coking refinery may be unable to accept heavy Venezuelan crude this month for three practical reasons: unit-level turnarounds or maintenance that take cokers, desulfurization units or ble...
Valero’s Port Arthur complex and several Motiva/Convent-era Gulf Coast refineries are documented examples of sites that installed hydrocracking or coking capacity as part of multi‑billion–dollar expan...
Between 2021 and 2025 U.S. petroleum trade and refining dynamics shifted in ways that helped moderate retail gasoline prices: exports of total petroleum rose (the U.S. exported roughly 10.2 million b/...
NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center and most major forecasters expect a La Niña-influenced 2025–26 winter that tilts the odds toward a cooler, wetter northern U.S. and a warmer, drier southern tier; NOAA...