Hovensa Refinery: A Victim Of Growing Competition

BMI View: The shutdown of the Hovensa refinery in the US is not simply part of a pronounced European and US Northeast trend for the closure of plants. Indeed, although the refinery suffered from the same weak margins, its main flaw was its lack of complexity and scale in a region where competition for Latin American and US demand is growing fast.

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