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As required under Section 804 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (Pub. L. 110-140), this report reviews the supply implications of planned refinery outages for December 2008 through March 2009, which covers the winter period when demand for distillate fuels (diesel and heating oil) is high. As a result, emphasis in this report is on distillate rather than gasoline. Refinery outages are the result of planned maintenance and unplanned outages. Maintenance is usually scheduled during the times when demand is lowest in the first quarter and again in the fall. Unplanned outages, which occur for many reasons including mechanical failures, fires, and flooding, can occur at any time. Distillate production is mainly affected by outages of a refinerys crude distillation unit, while gasoline production is more strongly correlated with fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) unit outages. While other refinery units can also impact distillate and gasoline production, they dont have as large an impact as the outages from crude distillation or FCC units, so other units are not covered in this report. Market conditions going into the winter months are mixed. Crude prices have dropped considerably, bringing both gasoline and distillate prices down as well. Demand for gasoline and distillate fuels has been falling in 2008 compared with 2007, but distillate demand in PADD 1 (East Coast), which is where most U.S. heating oil demand is concentrated, may by driven up by colder weather expected in the first quarter of 2009. In addition, inventories of both gasoline and heating oil are low for this time of year. This is not as critical for gasoline, since demand falls off over the winter, but distillate inventories are used to help meet peak winter heating demand during December through February.