What is the maximum amount of gasoline that a refinery can produce? Is it easy to adjust the amount of gasoline a refinery produces?
The average yield of gasoline from a US refinery in 2008 was 44.2%. Therefore a 100,000 B/D refinery would yield between 44,000 to 45,000 B/D of gasoline. Please see Refinery Yield for historic information. Refinery yields will vary during the year as operations shift from maximum distillate output to maximum gasoline production. Yields can vary =/- 5% based on API refinery data. In 2008, yields ranged from a low of 42% in June to 46.9% in January. The amount of gasoline in storage will impact how much gasoline the refinery produces. Please see Monthly Yield of Finished Motor Gasoline for data from 1993 to 2009.
