-Stage 5.1-
Gas Sources
I received and email recently (the second in a long line I'm sure) stating that the Exxon-Mobil monopoly needs to be broken and people need to start buying American fuels. The main problem I find with this is that in general people do not know the source of the fuel at most gas stations.
Gas companies in general import their gas from a bunch of different sources so when you go and get your gas it is not "American" or "Middle Eastern", it is a conglomeration of several countries. So by shopping "American" I guess you should go to gas stations with a fairly large percentage of American produced fuel. Several companies only refine their fuel that they receive from outside sources and several more just purchase already refined fuel. I am making the assumption (however wrong that may be I do not know) that if a Shell refinery sells the fuel that 100% of the fuel is Shell's.
But as quoted from Citgo:
"No
company sells 100% their own refined fuels as fuels are loaded and picked up at
terminal locations throughout the country and there is a certain amount of
intermingling to some extent it just cannot be guaranteed that fuel A was only
refined by refiner A."
American Percentages
These percentages are broken down below.
42.9% American - Conoco-Phillips Oil
-This includes-
Conoco Gas Stations
Phillips 66 Gas Stations
76 Gas Stations
22.1% American - BP Oil
-This includes-
BP Gas Stations
Amoco Gas Stations
ARCO Gas Stations
18.9% American - Exxon-Mobil Oil
-This includes-
Exxon Gas Stations
Mobil Gas Stations
Esso Gas Stations
18.2% American - Shell Oil
-This includes-
Shell Gas Stations
17.4% American - Chevron Oil
-This includes-
Chevron Gas Stations
Texaco Gas Stations
0.0% American - Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA) Oil
-This includes-
Citgo Gas Stations
Crude Oil Production Sources
Below I list several gas station companies along with the percentages of where they receive their fuel (crude-oil) from.
as of 2005:
Western Hemisphere - 32.6%
USA - 18.9%
Canada - 13.7%
Europe - 21.6%
UK - 8%
Norway - 13%
Other - 0.7%
Africa - 26.4%
Nigeria - 11.9%
Angola - 7.2%
Equatorial Guinea - 4.8%
Other - 2.5%
Asia Pacific/Middle East - 13.2%
Australia - 2.9%
Malaysia - 3.3%
Middle East - 6.5%
Other - 0.6%
Russia - 4.2%
Other - 1.9 %
as of 2006:
Western Hemisphere - 22.6%
USA - 18.2%
Other Western Hemisphere - 4.4%
Europe - 24.2%
Africa - 17.5%
Asia Pacific - 12.7%
Middle East/Russia - 23.1%
As of 2006:
Western Hemisphere - 45.8%
USA - 42.9%
Canada - 2.9%
Europe - 28.6%
Asia Pacific - 12.4%
Middle East/Africa - 12.4%
Other - 0.8%
As of 2006:
Western Hemisphere - 29.3%
USA - 22.1%
Canada -
0.3%
Trinidad & Tobago - 1.6%
Venezuela - 26%
Argentina - 69%
Columbia - 34%
Europe - 18.5%
UK - 10.2%
Azerbaijan - 5.9%
Rest of Europe - 2.5%
Asia Pacific - 1.4%
Australia - 1.4%
Middle East - 6.6%
Africa - 7.1%
Angola -
5.4%
Egypt - 1.7%
Russia - 35.4%
Other - 1.8%
As of 2006:
Western Hemisphere - 25%
USA -
17.3%
Canada - 1.7%
Venezuela - 4.1%
Argentina - 1.9%
Europe - 21.2%
UK - 10.2%
Netherlands - 0.1%
Kazakhstan - 10.9%
Asia Pacific - 31.0%
Australia - 1.1%
China - 3.8%
Indonesia - 20.3%
Philippines - 0.5%
Thailand - 5.4%
Africa - 22.7%
Angola -
20.2%
Nigeria - 2.5%
Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA)
As of 2006:
(Information is difficult to understand on website and may be slightly different in reality)
Venezuela - 100%
Refinery Production Sources
Below I list several gas station companies that purchase their crude oil from another company and refine it themselves. This is the percentages of the crude oil that they purchase.
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