American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) President and CEO Chet Thompson issued the following statement today on ...

The downstream segment encompasses refineries and petrochemical manufacturing facilities that process crude oil and natural gas liquids into finished products. There are 131 operable refineries in the ...

Chet Thompson became president and CEO of AFPM in May 2015. He leads a staff that advocates for petroleum refiners and petrochemical manufacturers before Congress and the Executive Branch on a broad ...

Many industry FCC incidents have occurred due to an inability to maintain proper safeguards that prevent mixing of air and hydrocarbon during standby operations. As an additional layer of protection, ...

In a recent post we reviewed refining capacity, which for the United States is the maximum volume of crude oil that all 125+ American refineries, combined, can process in a given day according to ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) President and CEO Chet Thompson issued the following statement today in response to the Trump administration’s decision to issue a ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) is launching a second round of issue ads to inform consumers about the Biden administration’s policy agenda rushing to ...

TLDR; the current high diesel prices are fundamentally the result of demand outpacing supply, as of the posting of this blog. There are four primary drivers of this imbalance. Refining capacity losses ...

The American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) is the leading trade association representing the makers of the fuels that keep us moving, the petrochemicals that are the essential building ...

It may be second nature to people in our industries, but many Americans don’t realize that the “oil” industry is actually several different industries that work together to make the fuels and products ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) President and CEO Chet Thompson today issued the following statement on EPA’s announcement of a supplemental proposal to ...

From June 1 to September 15 every year, nearly all gasoline sold in the United States is required to be a “summer” gasoline which is different in a few key ways from the gasoline sold during the rest ...