Refiners start slowing from summer peak


NEW YORK: Refiners, which were benefiting from an oversupplied crude market’s price collapse, are now tackling a glut of their own.

As US gasoline inventories persistently mount, even during the summer driving season, refiners are starting to process less crude and plan to slow down further into the second half of the year to correct the surplus.

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