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What's going on with crude refinery profit margins in Asia?

Profit on processing a barrel of crude at a typical European or U.S. refinery has jumped by about 33% year to date, while refining profit margins in Asia are up by around 9%, Refinitiv Eikon data showed.

How do refineries recognize profits between products and crude oil?

To recognize profits between products and crude. As always, note that all data used in visualizations below is publicly available from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. A refinery¡¯s gross profit tracks the ¡®crack spread¡¯, which is the difference between the price of refined products and the price of crude oil.

What is a petroleum refinery?

A petroleum refinery is a set of installations intended to transform crude oil, generally unusable as such, into petroleum products: motor gasoline, jet fuel, diesel fuel, fuel oil, lubricants, liquefied petroleum gases, naphtha, and so on. The products consumed in largest volumes are motor gasoline, motor diesel, and heavy fuel oil.

How much does a crude oil refinery cost?

But the majority of refineries in operation is largely amortized and therefore operates with lower refining costs, in the order of $3 to $5 per barrel of crude oil processed. As we have seen, fixed costs (personnel, maintenance, and overheads) and capital costs represent the bulk of the total cost of processing crude oil.