21.   Crude oil futures fell in late trading along with heating oil prices amid waning concern about a shortage of refined product available for delivery through May.

22.   Demand for gasoline and other refined products is exploding in Vietnam.

23.   Earlier in the day, the European Union pushed through a decision to ban the supply of oil and refined products to Yugoslavia, excluding supplies for relief efforts.

24.   Even today, gasoline is the only profitable refined product for Japanese oil companies, said Lalita Gupta, an analyst with UBS Securities in Tokyo.

25.   Expectations that supplies will increase drove refined product futures lower.

26.   Expectations of increased supplies drove refined product futures lower.

27.   Even so, BP was making more refined product than it needed for its service stations and retail marketing business in the U.S. and parts of continental Europe.

28.   Furthermore, the effect of the increased production will take some months to be felt in actual supplies of refined products on hand.

29.   Growth in sales of fuels and other refined products has been slow, and supplies have been more than adequate.

30.   He said wider refining profit margins, increased production of gasoline and other refined products, and higher natural gas production all contributed to the better earnings.