Oil 101
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.36 (707 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0982039204 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 452 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
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.
the book will stay on my desk, and start to look as worn as some of the others." --theoildrum, February 17, 2009 . While providing some background to the debate on current world oil reserve calculations, he does not take a specific position within it. This is useful not just to the neophyte. Given the nature of the debate, that is perhaps wise. A quick measure comes up with more than 10 ft of shelf space filled with books relating to the topicof my collection only 8 books sit on my desk. Today I added another to that rather select group
Fascinating Book 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 descriptio. Jon Smith said 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 . "Broaden your mind, read this book!" according to James Madison. 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