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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...
Wisdom from the Downstream Wizard
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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What Happened to California’s Cap-and-Trade Gasoline Price Hike?
January 19, 2015
Oil industry observers, including the Downstream Wizard, predicted that California retail gasoline prices would go up around New Year’s Day as transportation fuels would come under California’s Cap-and-Trade regulation. At current prices for carbon, Covered Entities like refiners and marketers who pay the tax on fuels, should be passing through about 10 cents per gallon...
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