Signal · Commodities & Input Costs
U.S. refineries have been running at very high rates in 2026
What the source reported
Source-reportedThe U.S. refinery fleet has run at higher-than-normal rates this year, with refinery utilization averaging more than 95% of capacity between May and September, the highest for those months since 1998. Tight global product supplies this year have boosted margins for petroleum products, particularly for diesel, incentivizing the increased run rates.
- Publication
- EIA Today in Energy · Commodity/Energy Organisation
- Published
- 22nd October 2026
- Original report
- eia.gov
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What ProcIntel recorded
ProcIntel-derived- Category
- Commodities & Input Costs
- Geography
- Global, US
- Organisations
- None identified
- Collected
- 22nd October 2026 · 13:17
Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.
A provisional, automatically computed reading of this individual Signal, before Event extraction or human review. Not a final rating.
Initial Significance Moderate (33.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (21.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Geographic Breadth (0.0/10 points). Initial Confidence Low (34.5/100, data sufficiency: Partial). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (28.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Corroboration (2.5/25 points).
- Strongest contributor
- Procurement Impact
- Limiting factor
- Geographic Breadth