Back to square one: why refiners won't rush to heavy crude
Mexico, now established as the world leader in heavy-crude marketing, has again improved the incentive for refiner customers to invest in capacities to process its heavy Maya crude. It did this by raising its official price for the lighter Isthmus grade, but maintaining its price for heavier Maya. By this move, Mexico has further distanced itself from the other world-class heavy-crude oil marketer, Venezuela, as to heavy-crude marketing strategy - and thereby possibly adding to the factors that are already delaying heavy-crude's inevitably crucial role in the world petroleum market. This issue also presents graphical data on the following: (1) asphalt export prices to US from Canada, N. Antilles, and Venezuela for 1984 and 1985; (2) US posted asphalt prices by area, Dec. 4, 1985; (3) US asphalt imports by country of origin for September 1984 and Sept. 1985; (4) refining netback data for US Gulf and West Coasts, Rotterdam, and Singapore as of Nov. 29, 1985; (5) fuel price/tax series for various dates for countries fuel prices for countries of the Eastern Hemisphere as of Nov. 19.
- OSTI ID:
- 6157802
- Journal Information:
- Energy Detente; (United States), Journal Name: Energy Detente; (United States) Vol. 6:23; ISSN EDETD
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
Similar Records
Third international conference on heavy crude and tar sands. Part III. Worldwide production experiences
Mexico: point-man for heavy crude
Related Subjects
020500 -- Petroleum-- Products & By-Products
020700* -- Petroleum-- Economics
Industrial
& Business Aspects
29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY
290200 -- Energy Planning & Policy-- Economics & Sociology
294002 -- Energy Planning & Policy-- Petroleum
ASPHALTS
BITUMENS
CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS
COAL
DATA
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
ENERGY SOURCES
FLUIDS
FOSSIL FUELS
FUEL GAS
FUELS
GAS FUELS
GASES
IMPORTS
INDUSTRIAL PLANTS
INDUSTRY
INFORMATION
LATIN AMERICA
MATERIALS
MEXICO
NATURAL GAS
NORTH AMERICA
NUMERICAL DATA
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
OTHER ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
PETROLEUM
PETROLEUM PRODUCTS
PETROLEUM REFINERIES
PRICES
STATISTICAL DATA
TAR
TAXES
USA
VISCOSITY