High-tech vs low-tech: refining margins in 1983

Journal Article · Wed Oct 26 04:00:00 EDT 1983 · Energy Detente; (United States)

OSTI ID:5541824

While OPEC marker crude, at US $29 per barrel, still represents negative profit margins, some of the medium and heavy crudes affort positive ones. Interviews with US refiners reveal that margins for hevavy California crude oil at higher-technology plants may be close to US $8 per barrel. In this issue, Energy Detente updates refinery netback developments in four international markets, and finds the industry beginning to recoup losses of supply-glutted 1981 and 1982. This issue also presents the fuel price/tax series and the industrial fuel prices for countries of the Western Hemisphere for October 1983.

• OSTI ID: 5541824
• Journal Information: Energy Detente; (United States), Journal Name: Energy Detente; (United States) Vol. 4:20; ISSN EDETD
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English and Spanish

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