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Synonyms for refined

characterized by discriminating taste and broad knowledge as a result of development or education

so slight as to be difficult to notice or appreciate

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Synonyms for refined

(used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel

freed from impurities by processing

showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience

suggesting taste, ease, and wealth

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free from what is tawdry or unbecoming

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Plains All American is a publicly traded master limited partnership engaged in the transportation, storage, terminalling and marketing of crude oil and refined products, as well as in the processing, transportation, fractionation, storage and marketing of natural gas liquids.
This will enable us to capture most of the African oil market with our cheap refined petroleum products, before our neighbours build and start refining their newly discovered oil.
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Gallagher arranged investor partnerships to produce vast quantities of refined coal, as the fuel is known in the industry, for utilities across the nation, splitting the benefit of the lucrative government incentive - now worth more than $7 per ton.
He expressed excitement that several investors were developing greenfield refineries that would culminate in about 1,500,000 barrels of oil per day (bopd) being refined in Nigeria in a few years, making the country the crude processing hub of West Africa and in control of some part of the East Africa market.
'The initial market investigation conducted by MAO indicates that the transaction may affect the sugar industry, particularly the markets for the provision of sugar cane milling and refining services, and the production, distribution and sale of raw sugar, refined sugar and molasses.
However, the smaller refineries have locational advantages, including access to discounted feedstocks and the ability to sell into regional, higher-margin refined product markets, which helps increase their profitability.
Chevron and Exxon are struggling with spotty demand in key markets outside the United States for refined products.
"We hope to keep increasing our production, which saves the national exchequer significant foreign exchange which would otherwise be spent on importing refined products", said Mr.
It operates the Ruwais and Abu Dhabi refineries, which have a processing capacity of 922,000 barrels per day, and produce over 40 million tonnes of refined products per year for local and export markets.
The production of refined petroleum such as premium diesel/gasoil, gasoline and jet fuel for export is the most obvious method of achieving this goal.
Pursuant to the sale agreement, the logistics assets included about 4m barrels of refined product and crude oil storage tanks, a light products terminal, a heavy products loading rack, certain rail and barge facilities, certain other related logistics assets as well as two crude oil pipeline segments and one pipeline segment not currently in service, each of which is approximately 2.5 miles and extends from SPPR's refinery in St.