The White House has asked US refiners to postpone all scheduled maintenance in order to keep up production levels after extensive disruption to the Gulf of Mexico energy industry production after Hurricane Katrina, the Financial Times reported.
It quoted an executive with a refinery in Houston as saying: 'The message from the government is, 'Run the refinery as high as you can and avoid all the non-priority maintenance in the next four or six weeks'.'
Washington has also asked refiners to stop producing clean-burning grades of diesel and prioritize gasoline output.
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