The refinery has a coking capacity of 107,000 barrels per day, according to government data.

The coking capacity leads to lower feedstock costs,' Cazalot added in his presentation to analysts.

The refinery, which has coking capacity of 107,000 barrels per day, is capable of handling heavy, Venezuelan crude.

The downed coker is one of two such units at the refinery which give it a coking capacity of 107,000 bpd, according to government figures.

The distillate yields from refineries are up substantially because refiners have boosted their coking capacity,' said Evans. '

FTO has amongst the highest percentage of coking capacity (20%) relative to its total throughput of all of its independent refining peers.

By 2014, says Jackie Forrest of IHS CERA, new production from the tar sands will have filled the available coking capacity.

Handan, an important steel producing area, had shut down 1.1 6 million tonnes of coking capacity in its resource-rich Fengfen g Mining District by end of June.

The coastal province of Shandong has a combined annual coking capacity of 45 million tonnes, and needs 60 million tonnes of coking coal a year, the association said.

BP's refinery in Whiting, Ind., has had 260,000 barrels a day offline since November to install coking capacity and boost its ability to use low-quality heavy crude oil.

Its location near metallurgical coal mines and its own coking capacity gave it a competitive advantage in coke, but ultimately this was more than offset by the high logistical cost of bringing in iron ore.

Petro-Canada would more likely buy, or invest in, a refiner with the coking capacity needed to process some of the 160,000 barrels per day of bitumen the Fort Hills oil sands mine in Alberta will produce, Brenneman said.

Handan, a city in Hebei Province and another important steel producing area, has shut down coking capacity of 1.16 million tonnes in its resource-rich Fengfeng Mining District by end of June, according to the city's environment protection bureau's website (www.hbj.hd.gov.cn).

Looking for greater capacity, in 1936, a fourth blast furnace, a second sinter plant, a new Bessemer plant, and new coking capacity, six new ovens being added to the existing battery and a new battery of 21 ovens were constructed and in operation by the end of 1937.