Even though the cost of crude directly related to the cost of the product. There are many other costs involved before the usable petroleum products such as gasoline, diesel, LPG, Jet fuel /Kerosene can be made available at the retail outlets at the demand centers.
- Prices crude as quoted in the international market is FOB (Free on Board) Spot prices at the load port. Since the prices change throughout the trading day, for the refining economics, the average monthly ‘Dated Brent’ price should be used. Dated Brent is the BenchMark assessment of the Physical crude.
- To this, one must add the transportation costs from the load port to the refinery gate.
- Converting crude oil into usable products does not come free; hence the refining costs which normally average about $3 to $4 per bbl depending upon the sophistication of the refinery have to be included.
- Finally, there are marketing costs. This includes the cost of storage, distribution, marketing company’s costs & profit, and profit of the service station dealer. Understand as of October 30, 2019, the share of the Marketing Companies in gasoline/petrol was Rs 2.89 per liter and for the Service Station operator was Rs 3.81 per liter.
Please note that no one uses Nynex WTI price in the East of Suez region. Pakistan buys her crude from the Arab Gulf where prices are based on Dubai & Oman quotes. These days Oman is selling at around $29 per bbl. May OSP of the Arab Light Crude is a discount of $7.3 per bbl from the average Oman & Dubai crude price. Which would be about $22 per bbl based on today’s spot quotes.
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