Distillates

The authority also estimated draws in both gasoline and middle distillates.

While nationwide inventories dropped for a sixth time in seven weeks, stockpiles of gasoline and distillates rose by more than twice the amount estimated in a Bloomberg survey.

Money managers boosted their net longs in heating oil and diesel fuel to records, as middle distillates in the U.S. are below the seasonal average, and the extreme cold in the eastern U.S. is further expected to tighten middle distillate supplies.

A partial solution was to combine these dyes with petroleum distillates, leading to faster drying heatset inks.

Such fuels, directly or in mixture with non-reformed distillates, are universal in developed countries (0EU, Japan, etc.).

Under negative pressure, power for a vacuum source is needed and the reduced boiling points of the distillates requires that the condenser be run cooler to prevent distillate vapours being lost to the vacuum source.