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Refining Crude Oil – Part 2

Monday, December 28, 2009 15:05 1 Comment

Refining is a capital-intensive industry in a market driven by divergent forces—cleaner fuelsto address local air pollution; greater fuel efficiency against the backdrop of record oil prices; and steadily rising consumption of transportation fuels due to rising income, especially in developing countries. Part 2 of the briefing notes on refining discusses these topics and other [...]

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Refining Crude Oil – Part 1

Friday, September 11, 2009 9:59 No Comments

Crude oil is what we extract out of the ground; refined products (such as gasoline and diesel) are what we consume. As of end-2007, there were 657 refineries around the world with a combined crude processing capacity of 85 million barrels per day (bpd). This briefing note provides technical background information on the characteristics of [...]

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Contracts for Petroleum Development - Part 3

Friday, September 4, 2009 10:23 No Comments

The flows of oil revenues are quite complex. This note presents the results of two hypothetical simulations — one a progressive production sharing regime and the other regressive – to illustrate qualitatively how they affect the amount and timing of government revenue and investors’ profits.
Briefing Notes 7 and 8 [1,2] gave an overview of different [...]

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