With demand for oil products booming in India, suppliers are scrambling to keep up.
SeaDrill was established in 1972 and currently has operations in 15 countries and should continue to grow with the increase in demand for oil and gas products.
So, with growing demand for gasoline and other refined-oil products driving the prices and profits for all refiners upward, and with companies like Valero reaping the rewards of a widening price gap between sour and sweet on the upstream side, sour refiners like Valero are going to continue their monster returns.
Companies would try to minimize shipping, rethink their supply chains and increase prices for products containing oil derivatives.
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Then there is pipeline policy needed to get feedstock to refineries to manufacture into oil products for consumers.
"It was a pretty cool thesis, " says Bush, who graduated in June and took a job at Schlumberger designing products for oil wells.
Mike Schaffner directs the information technology project management group for the oil and gas products and services company, Cameron, in Houston and aims to infuse a business-based approach to IT management.
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Japan imports nearly all of its oil and natural gas consumption, and the earthquake, having wreaked havoc on select nuclear power facilities, will likely result in a sustained change in the composition of Japanese energy demand, including an increased demand for oil and some refined products.
"A leading engineer and manufacturer of high-quality, flexible pipeline products for oil and gas transportation in the susbsea production industry, " Wellstream's acquisition demonstrates a double interest by GE to both tap the deepwater drilling business and enter one of the world's most dynamic economies in the sector, Brazil.
Some examples of TriMas products include: gaskets for the oil and gas industry, precision titanium screws and bolts for aircraft and defense industries, packaging products, and a unique trailering system for commercial and lightweight commercial trucks.
High transport costs meant that Kisangani got less for its own products, notably palm oil, and had to pay more for everything it bought.
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China only recently started buying peanuts from other countries like India as its appetite for peanut oil and other peanut products expanded.
Deserving of serious consideration are master limited partnerships (MLPs), which are publicly traded partnerships that own pipelines and storage and transportation facilities for oil, gas and refined products.
The plants grow wild along highways and in other spots in the U.S. They are also considered ornamental by some gardeners and are cultivated for medicinal castor oil and other products.
Another top buy was Calumet Specialty Products Partners, an Indianapolis-based refiner of crude oil into fuels and products for lubrication and paints.
Rob Routs is executive director of oil products and chemicals for Royal Dutch Shell.
With lower demand, the prices for upstream products such as crude oil and natural gas have remained largely subdued over 2012, leading to lower price realization for Exxon.
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His children, in turn, parlayed their ties to the President into the role of middlemen for government purchases and sales of oil products, plastics, arms, airplane parts and petrochemicals.
"There are sanctions that are in place for people that are buying oil and products from Iran - there would be repercussions, " outgoing US ambassador to Kenya Scott Gration warned earlier on Wednesday about Kenya's oil importation plans.
The crack spread is the difference between the prices paid for crude oil and the price of refined products.
Another top buy was Calumet Specialty Products Partners (nasdaq: CLMT - news - people ), an Indianapolis-based refiner of crude oil into fuels and products for lubrication and paints.
The productive Asian economies in which we invest are caught in a "terms of trade" vise between rising input costs for its oil and materials and falling output prices for its electronic widgets and other manufactured products.
Bush's plan, which aims to insulate consumers from high prices while fattening stores of gasoline and other refined oil products, will likely call for the boosting of domestic refining capacity, perhaps by building as many as 40 oil refineries over the next 20 years.
Economically, artificially-created fuel demand for corn, soybean oil, grease, and other inputs drives up the input prices for food and consumer products such like french fries, soaps, detergents, hair conditioners, eggs, dairy, and sweeteners.
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For some agricultural products it takes ten calories of oil to produce one calorie of food.
Mike Schaffner directs information technology for the Valve and Measurement Group of oil and gas products and services company Cameron in Houston.
The grain is one of the key starting links in the country's food chain, used to make cooking oil, tofu products and in feed for the burgeoning pig industry.
It is one thing for the city of Bellingham, Washington to ban oil sands products from its municipal fleet.
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And the price of one of its main products--palm oil, widely used for cooking in tropical Africa--also went haywire.
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