21.   Refinery demand for crude rose more than analysts expected, a sign that U.S. refiners are processing more crude now that seasonal maintenance closures are ending.

22.   Refiners are wrapping up seasonal maintenance.

23.   Seasonal maintenance of North Sea drilling platforms could reduce supplies of crude oil to the U.S., lowering refinery supplies at a time when summer driving erodes gasoline reserves.

24.   Shutdowns come about a month before major U.S. refiners start seasonal maintenance.

25.   Some traders said the crush likely was lower than a week earlier as processors idled their factories for seasonal maintenance.

26.   Such glitches come at a time when refiners are reducing operations for seasonal maintenance work, as Amerada Hess Corp. did at its massive facility in St. Croix.