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Article: UDS announces supply agreement for Quebec refinery.(Ultramar Diamond Shamrock Corp.; Sonatrach)(Brief Article)
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- NPN International
- Article date:
- July 1, 2000
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Canada -- Ultramar Diamond Shamrock Corp. announced in April that it had signed a seven-year agreement with Sonatrach, the Algerian national oil company, to supply the company's Quebec refinery with an additional 35,000 barrels per day of light, low-sulfur crude oil.
"The addition of this low-sulfur crude to our slate of crude runs at the Quebec refinery will allow us to meet the Canadian Federal Government's proposed new standards for cleaner gasoline about a year ahead of schedu1e' said Jean Gaulin, UDS chairman and CEO.
Current regulations allow for a maximum of 1,000 parts per million of sulfur content in gasoline produced and sold in Canada. The ...