Oil 101
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.18 (857 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0982039204 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 452 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Fascinating Book" according to Yung Fan. Oil 101 is a fascinating book. It explains everything I wanted to know about oil.Over the past few years with rapidly rising and falling oil prices, politicians, TV pundits and market commentators blamed speculators, OPEC, refineries and a host of other seemingly random events. I felt that everyone understood only tiny portions of the oil business. There was no single source which pulled together disparate areas describing oil. Internet searches for oil definitions yielded individual descriptions without an ov. This book is simply amazing. It provides all the relevant knowledge to close As a new crude commodity trader, I wanted a book to provide the fundamentals of the industry. This book is simply amazing. It provides all the relevant knowledge to close the gap that a financial guy has with a mechanical, chemical or petroleum engineer in the oil field. It provides a detailed analysis for the entire industry, all the products, how everything relates (physical upstream, downstream, midstream markets to the financial markets such as finance, trading and the market economy.While the book is a fe. Broaden your mind, read this book! Before I started trading oil I wanted to learn everything there was about the history of oil, where it comes from, how it was discovered, all that's involved with transporting and refining, all that oil is used for besides fuel, the politics of oil, and so on. Finally, a book that answered all those questions and opened my eyes to just how ubiquitous and important oil is to our modern world. It's very detailed - there's even an entire chapter on the chemistry of oil and the number of different oil platforms or
This is useful not just to the neophyte. the book will stay on my desk, and start to look as worn as some of the others." --theoildrum, February 17, 2009 . Today I added another to that rather select group. It is Morgan Downey's "Oil 101" It differs from them, however, both in being focused not just on oil, but also in explaining more of the financial matters that play such a significant part in the price we pay for oil and thereafter for the gas that goes into the tank. "industry must-read" --Financial Times, February 25, 2009"I read a lot of books. While providing some background to the debate on current world oil reserve calculations, he does not take a specifi
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.