Valero Energy (VLO) is the leading
oil refiner in the U.S..
Marathon Petroleum announced it is buying oil refiner Andeavor for $ 23.3 billion, creating the largest
oil refiner in the U.S. and one of the top five in the world.
Investing is buying Macy's and
Oil Refiners in the second quarter, and making sure the underperformance does not affect your investment philosophy.
Not exact matches
Marathon Petroleum has announced it will buy competitor Andeavor
in a $ 23.3 billion deal that will create the largest independent
oil refiner by capacity
in the U.S., surpassing the established leader Valero Energy.
These developments raise the possibility that Canada's two leading pipeline companies will lose out to American rivals
in the race to get fast - rising
oil production from Alberta, Saskatchewan and North Dakota to higher paying
refiners on the Gulf Coast, Asia and California.
America might be on its way to become a net
oil exporter, but there's no reason why this should get
in the way of building pipelines that connect different types of
oil plays to the
refiners best equipped to turn their crude into the petroleum products that feed North America's economy and the world's.
A mild winter led to swelling distillate stockpiles, resulting
in a rare winter occurrence where heating
oil traded at a discount to gasoline, catching
refiners off - guard at a time when they typically increase distillate production to meet high demand for heating
oil.
Trump hosted a series of meetings with advocates for the corn and
oil industries at the White House since late last year aimed at reforming biofuels regulations
in a way that cuts costs for
refiners without reducing overall biofuels demand.
It is a mirror image of what happened with distillate products
in the winter, when weak demand for diesel and heating
oil left a big surplus
in those products, and hammered independent
refiners» earnings at a time when those products are normally
in high use.
The pipeline or any other way to bring Western Canadian Crude to Tex
refiners would speed up
oil extraction
in Alberta and increase world supplies, which would bring down
oil prices for all Americans, by about a dollar a barrel according to Levi.
China's Sinopec, Asia's largest
refiner, plans to cut Saudi crude
oil imports loading
in May by 40 percent after national
oil company Saudi Aramco set higher - than - expected prices, an official from the company's trading arm Unipec said.
The Greek state is selling a 31 percent stake
in DESFA and Hellenic Petroleum, Greece's biggest
oil refiner and the other shareholder
in the operator, 35 percent.
Refiners in the U.S. Midwest, Ontario, Alberta, B. and Washington get their raw material from the Western Sedimentary Basin, production from which is growing thanks to the Alberta oilsands, the Bakken field
in Saskatchewan and North Dakota and
oil shales
in the Rocky Mountain states.
If the marginal barrel is moving by pipeline, the difference between
oil in Alberta and
oil on the east coast is likely to be comparable to the shipping tolls on Energy East, and so running Canadian
oil would not save
refiners any money at all relative to running imported crude.
Marathon Petroleum agreed to buy rival Andeavor for $ 23.3 billion
in the biggest - ever deal for an
oil refiner that would create the largest independent fuel maker
in the U.S. Bloomberg Intelligence's Fernando Valle talks with Bloomberg's Alix Steel about the historic deal.
Crucially, much of that goes to the Gulf Coast, and nearly all of it is
in the form of heavy crude, a type of
oil for which Gulf Coast
refiners are particularly equipped to handle.
For eastern
refiners, it's not clear that access to 1.1 million barrels of
oil by pipeline will have a large impact on volatility, although a wider market will always lead to some reduction
in volatility.
The U.S. sale from the reserve was expected at some point but the timing of the purchase shows that
refiners need supply now because even with the increase
in supplies this week,
oil supply are below the average range for this time of year.
If you believe that,
in times of crisis, a West - East pipeline will provide eastern
refiners at
oil below the world price, you are assuming that western producers will sell
oil below world prices
in times of crisis.
While we are seeing great increases
in U.S. shale
oil production, the truth is that many U.S.
refiners have lighter condensate than they need for heavy crude to ramp up.
Last week's strange diesel exports are more likely an anomaly than a trend: As the U.S. continues to ramp up output of light, sweet, Texas
oil,
refiners» ability to pump out diesel will be threatened, and the U.S. will soon face a shortfall, Fitch's BMI Research analysts said Wednesday
in a note.
In other cases, the story is more nuanced: For example,
oil and gas extraction firms benefit, while the producers of petroleum and coal products lose, echoing the tension between
refiners and
oil - shale producers.
April 30 U.S.
oil refiner Marathon Petroleum Corp, which has agreed to buy rival Andeavor, reported an increase
in first - quarter profit, helped by higher refining and marketing margins.
Those waivers have been traditionally given to
refiners in hardship, but recently the US Administration seems to have leaned towards Big
Oil in its battle with Big Corn.
When diving into the valuation ratios based on trailing earnings and free cash flow, the energy sector offered a choice was between E&P and Integrated
oil companies that had sustained large drops
in their earnings, and
Refiners who had an earnings yield close to 12 %, and had seen an uptick
in earnings.
One bad quarter does not mean that the investment process is broken, that it was a mistake to invest
in Macy's or
Oil Refiners or Value stocks
in general.
The plunge
in crude prices all but killed profits at China's top energy producer and its largest
oil refiner.
Traditionally, when
oil futures decline, prices
in the physical markets tend to rise because crude is becoming cheaper and hence more attractive to
refiners.
President Barack Obama has said he will make a final decision on whether to allow the pipeline connecting Canada's
oil sands region to Texas
refiners and several government agencies had been given until the end of May to weigh
in.
Regarding Keystone, I myself think it is clear that Obama should say no to Keystone, because it is something
in his power to do, which would have some effect on retarding development of the tar sands (despite what the flawed State Department EIS [Environmental Impact Statement] said), and because we really wouldn't get any significant benefit from saying yes; no real
oil security, few permanent jobs, and most of the money goes to Canada and to
refiners in free - trade zones.
By linking Canadian fields to
refiners in the Gulf Coast, the 1,200 - mile (1,900 - km) Keystone XL pipeline would be a boon to an energy patch where
oil sands are abundant but that produce more carbon pollution than many other forms of crude.
Longtime
oil refiners UOP have a new refining process that turns plant oils into jet fuel — that has,
in turn, been used to power everything from a commercial jet to an F / A -18, dubbed the «Green Hornet.»
The
oil industry unsuccessfully urged the EPA to lower the federal mandate to use 16.55 billion gallons of biofuels
in 2013, saying it would unduly burden
refiners.
CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters)- TransCanada Corp on Thursday said it would move ahead with Canada's largest - ever pipeline, expanding the scale of its $ 12 billion plan to ship
oil sands crude
in the West to
refiners on its east coast and beyond as its U.S. - bound Keystone XL line stalls
in Washington.
Do
refiners and E&P companies benefit similarly from a rise
in the price of
oil?
In Verlegger's testimony, he says «Over the last six months, U.S.
refiners liquidated as much as 50 million barrels of crude
oil stocks.
We did well when
oil prices crashed since many ETFs just lump
refiners in with the general
oil sector.
Clear winners are the gulf coast
refiners based
in the U.S.
Oil from the Canadian oil sands currently trade at a discount to oil along the Gulf Coast and W
Oil from the Canadian
oil sands currently trade at a discount to oil along the Gulf Coast and W
oil sands currently trade at a discount to
oil along the Gulf Coast and W
oil along the Gulf Coast and WTI.
As Warren Buffett continues adding to his stake
in oil refiner Phillips 66 (PSX), many investors are wondering if Valero (VLO), another
refiner, is an equally attractive dividend stock.
MLPs as we know them today are primarily involved
in the ownership of
oil and gas assets, mostly pipelines, but they can also own things like
oil refiners.
Sadly, this hits a concentrated area of my portfolio, which has a concentration
in oil refiners.
This strategy also results
in unanticipated, or «windfall» profits: If the contract is purchased forward twelve months at $ 100 and the actual price is $ 150, the
refiner will take delivery of one barrel of
oil at $ 100 and the other at a spot price of $ 150, or $ 125 averaged for two barrels: a gain of $ 25 per barrel relative to spot prices.
The few
Oil Refiners we have
in this country should absolutely STOP PRODUCTION.
This is because U.S.
oil refiners «guessed wrong» on the U.S.
oil boom (
in light oils) and invested billions to configure their plants for heavy oils.
In an interview with The Globe and Mail editorial board, David Collyer, president of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, said the Keystone XL line is needed to connect the Alberta
oil sands with
refiners who have invested billions of dollar to upgrade their plants so that they can process heavy grades of crude.
In January, the National Association of Manufacturers hired a former Bush administration lawyer to counter litigation filed against
oil refiners and other companies.
Subtitle B: Disposition of Allowances -(Sec. 321) Amends the CAA to set forth provisions governing the disposition of emission allowances, including specifying allocations: (1) for supplemental emissions reductions from reduced deforestation; (2) for the benefit of electricity, natural gas, and / or home heating
oil and propane consumers; (3) for auction, with proceeds for the benefit of low income consumers and worker investment; (4) to energy - intensive, trade - exposed industries; (5) for the deployment of carbon capture and sequestration technology; (6) to invest
in energy efficiency and renewable energy; (7) to be distributed to Energy Innovation Hubs and advanced energy research; (8) to invest
in the development and deployment of clean vehicles; (9) to domestic petroleum refineries and small business
refiners; (10) for domestic and international adaptation; (11) for domestic wildlife and natural resource adaptation; and (12) for international clean technology deployment.
And they warn that investing billions of dollars
in oil transportation will lock the U.S. into continued dependency on an increasingly heavy type of imported crude that will drive up emissions both from the foreign producer and the domestic
refiner.
The cellulosic ethanol movement got a much needed boost yesterday with the announcement that Valero, the nation's largest independent
oil refiner, is investing $ 50 million into the Mascoma Corporation's plans to build a commercial sized wood - based biofuel refinery
in Kinross, Michigan.
Texas - based Tesoro Corporation, another
oil refiner, is also heavily invested
in the fight.