Oil 101 / Morgan Downey.
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TextLanguage: English Publication details: [S.l.] : Wooden Table Press, c2009.Edition: 1st edDescription: 440 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmISBN: - 9780982039205
- 0982039204
- Oil one zero one
- Oil one hundred and one
- 338.2/7282
- HD 9560.5 D748o 2009
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-368) and index.
A brief history of oil -- A crude oil assay -- Components of oil liquids -- Chemistry of oil -- Industry overview -- Exploration and production -- Refining -- Standards -- Finished products -- Petrochemicals -- Transporting oil -- Storage -- Seasonality -- Reserves -- Environmental regulations -- New engine technologies -- Oil prices -- Forward oil markets: futures and swaps -- Forward oil markets: options -- Managing oil price risk.
OIL 101 is a straightforward guide to oil and an essential read for anyone coming to grips with where oil prices, the economy and society are headed.
In OIL 101, Downey provides the facts one needs to understand oil, from its history and chemistry, to refining, finished products, storage, transportation, alternatives, and how prices are determined every day in global wholesale oil markets and how those markets are connected to prices at the pump.
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