My apologies for the slow follow up but I am afraid work must come first. My attention has been on how the EU chemical industry is going survive with the net zero demands of the politicians. Simple answer it will be nearly wiped out .

Today I want to discuss gasoline production which to many is a hot topic for those not buying into EV’s. All the briefings in the index can be discussed but I think that gasoline blending is probably the best follow on from basic refining.

I am a bit late posting my first real topic on why US refiners cannot use all the USL TO. Last night my first attempt disappeared when I pressed the publish button and I lost all my work. I have also had to sanitize the images to take out the logos

To set the stage one first has to understand a how a refinery works and what it produces. To keep things simple I am going to use a simple refinery that produces transport fuels and some co products. I have colour coded the main processes in the refinery under 4 headings which are: