Starter, Reliever, Kloza – Happy Hour Replay with Tom Kloza
By Paul Sankey
Published on January 16, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Yesterday evening Tom Kloza on Happy Hour was a great conversation. He was all excited by Dangote CEO announcing yesterday plans to double the size of the refinery, and talked about “creep” an old theme little mentioned today. But US refining throughputs are near record highs with many refinery shutdowns completed: creep. Keeping it old school: structurally one major challenge for refiners has gone, from Tom’s huge historic perspective (started in oil markets in the …
