Yes, but this will require more secondary processes such as cracking and reforming. Out of distillation you can only really get what's already in the crude oil mixture.
If I understand it correctly, we're running out of "light sweet" crude much faster than other kinds of oils and increasingly gasoline (and kerosene) are going to be not directly distilled but oftained from cracking of heavier hydrocarbons. Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?
Even with heavier crudes, refiners have the possibility to set up distillation so that the proportion of jet fuel in the final derived products shifts from the current 6% to at least 12% (in volume). I got it from a top-executive from Total, a few months ago. Of course, the bill will be more expensive to do that. ------------- If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear (Orwell)
