Powersalt
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yep I have the bmw 6 with a straight 6........diesel 37 mpg /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
Oil now $36 a barrel
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Whitelighter
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Yeah, had a few of those. In fact, still got a 3.0d 6 in the Range Rover (and yes, it is a BMW engine).
Cant beat the petrol 6's from Munich though...
Cant beat the petrol 6's from Munich though...
Refueler
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Nigel, sligthly off topic but is there a dfference between North Sea crude and Middle East oil. Does one make cleaner or more petrol and diesel than the other. Just curious.
Pete
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Absolutely. Each crude is different. At last count the different crudes run into hundreds .... They range from heavy waxy that need serious heating to keep liquid to something like Champion Export that could literally be put in car petrol tank. You also have sub's in all those - with high sulphurs, H2S, wax.
North Sea is a good mid ranger and gives good lub oils and middle distillates. Others will give lots of residual like Fuel Oil and Bitumen.
Refinerys cannot take 'any' crude - they are set for certain ranges and types. An example is a refinery I know where on ships we used to bring large quantities of UCCG (Upper Cat Cracking Gasoline) and Naphtha. The refinery had been built to handle high naphtha content Crude. That well basically became uneconomic, so Refinery was forced to spike other crude to work.
Does that answer you ? Crude is a general term for an extensive model.
Nigel, sligthly off topic but is there a dfference between North Sea crude and Middle East oil. Does one make cleaner or more petrol and diesel than the other. Just curious.
Pete
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Absolutely. Each crude is different. At last count the different crudes run into hundreds .... They range from heavy waxy that need serious heating to keep liquid to something like Champion Export that could literally be put in car petrol tank. You also have sub's in all those - with high sulphurs, H2S, wax.
North Sea is a good mid ranger and gives good lub oils and middle distillates. Others will give lots of residual like Fuel Oil and Bitumen.
Refinerys cannot take 'any' crude - they are set for certain ranges and types. An example is a refinery I know where on ships we used to bring large quantities of UCCG (Upper Cat Cracking Gasoline) and Naphtha. The refinery had been built to handle high naphtha content Crude. That well basically became uneconomic, so Refinery was forced to spike other crude to work.
Does that answer you ? Crude is a general term for an extensive model.
Refueler
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I forgot to add that 'spiking' a crude and changing the cracker can alter the amounts of each grade stripped of the crude.
Simple terms : You add a spiker to carry the distillate you wish to draw off or suppress. Second you can alter the temp gradient or combine with pressure so that distillation curve is altered. Take a kettle and have two components in it - each has a different vapourising temp. Vapour production is dependent on 2 factors : Temp and pressure. So a combination of both - you can draw of one component at one level above the fluid as its lighter and vapourises early, the other being later and heavier will draw of at a lower level.
Vics will love that !! as a Chemist. But it gives a rough idea of what happens when you crack crude.
Simple terms : You add a spiker to carry the distillate you wish to draw off or suppress. Second you can alter the temp gradient or combine with pressure so that distillation curve is altered. Take a kettle and have two components in it - each has a different vapourising temp. Vapour production is dependent on 2 factors : Temp and pressure. So a combination of both - you can draw of one component at one level above the fluid as its lighter and vapourises early, the other being later and heavier will draw of at a lower level.
Vics will love that !! as a Chemist. But it gives a rough idea of what happens when you crack crude.
Pete7
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Excellent thanks, so where do I have to live to have a Champion Export well in the back garden /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Pete
Pete
Refueler
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Excellent thanks, so where do I have to live to have a Champion Export well in the back garden /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Pete
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Brunei. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Excellent thanks, so where do I have to live to have a Champion Export well in the back garden /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Pete
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Brunei. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
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Deleted User YDKXO
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Thats because such a high proportion of the cost of fuel in the UK is duty and VAT so the cost of fuel in the UK simply cannot fall by the same % as the USA. Factor in the 25% plunge of Sterling against the Dollar and you've got the reason why fuel prices have fallen proportionately much less in the UK
If you want to blame somebody for continuing high fuel prices, blame Crash Gordon as was recently pointed out by the Scretary General of Opec HERE
If you want to blame somebody for continuing high fuel prices, blame Crash Gordon as was recently pointed out by the Scretary General of Opec HERE