Major businesses and the government AND ME!
The Crude Oil and Commodity Prices on April, Friday 25 2014 are: WTI Crude Oil is $101.94/barrel and Brent Crude Oil is $110.33/barrel.
In 1977, the average price for a barrel of crude oil was $14.40 (about $60.00 in today's dollars).
Crude oil is that oil that comes out of an oil well head (before it is refined). However, different oil wells produce different types of crude oil (some is thick and some is very runny)For commercial trading purposes, Brent Crude is a major classification of sweet light crude oil that serves as a major benchmark price for purchases of oil worldwide.
After crude oil is removed from the ground, it is sent to a refinery by pipeline, ship, or barge. At a refinery, different parts of the crude oil are separated into usable petroleum products.
In short, weakening of the US dollar, e.g., due to the weakening US economy, causes crude oil prices to go up. Strengthening dollar makes the price of crude oil to decrease. It is explained by the Purchasing Power Parity theory, which assumes that the producers of crude oil should get the same price for oil in their own currency, after exchanging dollars they receive for crude oil.
Valero buys its crude oil from the people that sell it to them.
India imports the majority of its crude oil from Saudi Arabia. India also buys a lot of oil from Iran and Iraq.
get it from places like Africa who send it to UK in tanker ships along the sea
Brent crude oil is a light crude from the North sea. It is used as an indicator of global oil prices. It is however unlikely that South Africa buys any Brent crude because the travel distance is great and that increases the cost of supplying the oil. South Africas oil is more likely to come from closer suppliers, like Angola, Nigeria and the Middle East.
Crude oil is crude..
Polymers are not made into crude oil. Crude oil is made into polymers.
What other thing you can do with crude oil.
It is a mixture of hydrocarbons, which can be separated by fractional distillation. Oil is NOT an element.
When crude oil spilt in the Gulf of Mexico it caused the oil to float into the Atlantic Ocean, near the United Kingdom (UK), and it also caused loads of animals to get completely cover in the oil and some possibly died because of it!
Yup! Crude Oil -> Crude Oil Vapour --> Diesel Oil --> Ethene --> Poly(ethene)
Crude Oil is hydrocarbon and it is mixture of carbon and hydrogen.
Crude oil blended with condensate or NGLs