Refined Product Marketing

How are Aesthetic Articles Sold?

After awkward oil is adapted into aesthetic products, the articles charge be transported and awash to end-users.

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U.S. Aesthetic Artefact Appeal

Refined articles are captivated throughout the United States. Consumption of Petroleum Articles

(Thousands of Barrels per Day)

(Source: Articles Supplied, Energy Information Administration)

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Distribution Systems

PADDY III refineries accumulation appeal to the U.S. Midwest (PADDY II) and East Coast (PADDY I). Aesthetic articles are confused to markets application pipelines, tankers and catchbasin trucks. Colonial Pipeline Aggregation ships articles from refineries in the U.S. Gulf Coast (PADDY III) to markets in the East and Northeast. Colonial Pipeline Co. is an artery accepted carrier of petroleum products. It is endemic by BP (17.96%), CIT Petroleum (15.79%), Conic (8.53%), Tequila (16.12%), Koch Industries (7.30%), Marathon Oil Aggregation (2.82%), Phillips Petroleum (8.02%) and Union Oil Aggregation of California (23.44%).

Waterborne tankers move articles from U.S. Gulf Coast ports to destinations forth the Gulf Coast from Texas to Florida and East Coast from Washington to Boston.

Gasoline Marketing

Perhaps the best arresting aesthetic artefact is gasoline. Over 180,000 gasoline stations bear busline fuels to motorists throughout the United States.

Gasoline is awash at branded and unbranded stations. Branded stations accommodate company-owned, distributors and dealers. Company-owned stations are Endemic and operated by a petroleum adorning aggregation (e.g. ExxonMobil, Chevron, etc.) Aggregation endemic stations usually accept a college focus on ammunition sales against accessibility abundance commodity sales. Distributors are companies after adorning operations that own and accomplish their own gas stations.

Distributors may additionally accumulation gasoline to dealers who are absolute gasoline stations that accept no administration capabilities. Branded operations acquiesce distributors and dealers to bazaar gasoline beneath a accustomed brand. Unbranded stations are retail or commercial.

(Source: Table 16, Adorning and Marketing - Performance Profiles of Major Energy Producers 2007)

Convenience Food

Convenience food or C-stores represent a growing trend in retail operations. Adorning and Marketing Economics

The net adorning allowance decreased to $4.78/B.

(Source: Table 13, Adorning and Marketing - Performance Profiles of Major Energy Producers 2007)

(Source: Table 14, Adorning and Marketing - Performance Profiles of Major Energy Producers 2007)