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California Gasoline Inventory Woes Keep Retail Prices High

January 18, 2016

by John Faulstich California’s gasoline prices were often in the news in 2015 and the trend will continue in 2016. Dave Hackett of Stillwater is one member of the California Energy Commission Petroleum Market Advisory Committee which continues to look into the gasoline prices in California. A topic of discussion at the last PMAC meeting was the...

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Gasoline Price Spike: What Caused the Latest Rise in Southern California Retail Prices?

August 6, 2015

There are three major refining centers on the West Coast, the Pacific Northwest (PNW), the San Francisco Bay (SFB), and Los Angeles (LA). The refineries in the PNW supply Washington, Oregon and California with gasoline. The SFB plants supply Northern California, Northern Nevada and Southern California with gasoline. Excess gasoline from the PNW and SFB...

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Crack Spread: A “Quick-and-Dirty” Indicator of Refining Profitability

August 1, 2015

by Dave Hirshfeld, MathPro, Inc. Refining is the key link in the global supply chain extending from the production of crude oil to end-use consumption of refined products. Crude oil as it exists at the wellhead is essentially worthless; a crude oil’s value is in the value of the products made from it. Petroleum products...

Wisdom from the Downstream Wizard

Bubble Map Update: Supply Disruptions Raise Prices in California

May 20, 2015

The May Bubble Map shows crude oil prices continuing on the upward trend from last month. WTI is up $7 since our last post, at $59 per barrel on May 18th. The WTI/Brent differential remains at $7 over WTI. The Alaska North Slope price also stays steady at $3 over WTI. Bakken continues to stay...

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Thoughts on an Interview with KPIX on Imported Canadian Crude Oil to the SF Bay

April 28, 2015

One of the exciting parts of my job is talking to reporters about trends in the transportation energy market. Sometimes these interviews even make it to television. For the television interviews, I often spend a couple of hours with reporters and producers laying out how the market works and discussing the finer points of the...

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Gas prices to drop to lowest in six years this summer, agency predicts

April 8, 2015

by Tiffany Hsu, LA Times An ongoing glut of crude oil will give U.S. drivers this summer the lowest seasonal gasoline prices in six years, the government predicts. Even in California – where prices recently surged a dollar above the national average, sparking accusations of collusion by oil refineries – analysts expect gasoline to be...
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