Four decades of world petroleum refining: geopolitics, geology

Journal Article · Wed Aug 19 04:00:00 EDT 1987 · Energy Detente; (United States)

OSTI ID:6218732

The longer-term evolution of global refining is shown graphically. Total capacity to process crude oil declined just after the turn of the decade. By no means was this experienced equally around the world, however, as this issue details. Essentially, the developed free market nations cut back capacity since 1980, but developing countries and centrally planned economy countries did not. A continued rebalancing of capacities according to both economic growth trends and nature-given crude oil resource occurrences is pre-determined. What cannot be known are the vital internal market specifics that will decide financial investments in expanding or upgrading capacities. This issue also contains the following: (1) ED refining netback data from the US Gulf and West Coasts, Rotterdam, and Singapore for early August 1987; and (2) ED fuel price/tax series for countries of the Western Hemisphere, August 1987 edition. Note: MOSOM, Lundberg Survey's Executive Summary report, provides monthly extraction data from seven primary US data files - cost: $120 per year; write to the Survey, P.O. Box 3996, North Hollywood, CA 91609-0996 for a free sample. 9 figures, 5 tables.

• OSTI ID: 6218732
• Journal Information: Energy Detente; (United States), Journal Name: Energy Detente; (United States) Vol. 8:14; ISSN EDETD
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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02 PETROLEUM
020400* -- Petroleum-- Processing
29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY
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CAPACITY
CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS
COAL
DATA
ENERGY SOURCES
FLUIDS
FOSSIL FUELS
FUEL GAS
FUELS
GAS FUELS
GASES
GLOBAL ASPECTS
INDUSTRIAL PLANTS
INFORMATION
INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS
INVESTMENT
MATERIALS
NATURAL GAS
NUMERICAL DATA
PETROLEUM PRODUCTS
PETROLEUM REFINERIES
POLITICAL ASPECTS
PRICES
STATISTICAL DATA
TAXES