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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.

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.

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by Baikal (baikal@no-log.org) on Thu Jun 28th, 2007 at 08:13:12 AM EST
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There's more to refining than just distillation. That's the point. Distillation is the cheap part.

Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jun 28th, 2007 at 10:15:33 AM EST
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