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Crack spread is a term used on the oil industry and futures trading for the differential between the price of crude oil and petroleum products extracted from it. The spread approximates the profit margin that an oil refinery can expect to make by " cracking " the long-chain hydrocarbons of crude oil into useful shorter-chain petroleum products.
The data are from the tab Data1 in this sheet. This tab was simplified, expanded by the column Spread (whose values have to be calculated), and separately saved as tab-delimited .txt file (note that WTI data of Jan 1986 to Apr 1987 is omitted because Brent data only starts at May 1987). The content of this file is as follows (as of May 2022):
Being a good 30 years newer, it may have drastically different data based on more accurate research. I would have to pay for access, though. I am not a big fan of how the graph is a composite of three different sources. It sort of seems like an apples and oranges comparison to me. The 1861–1944 data is domestic crude oil first purchase price.
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Over the past few months, the price difference between the two most heavily traded grades of crude oil -- Brent and WTI -- has plunged. This price gap -- known as the Brent-WTI spread -- has ...
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Analysing the graph, you can see that the price of oil has slowly returned to the level of a decade ago after a rapid decline. You can also see that oil prices reach a stage low in 2020 due to COVID-19. The chart was created by analysing WTI Crude data provided by CNBC. The chart was generated via charticulator production and then exported as SVG.
The crack spread between crude oil and one of its byproducts, reflecting the premium inherent in refining oil into gasoline, gas oil, or heating oil; The spark spread between natural gas and electricity, for gas-fired power stations; The crush spread between soybeans and one of its byproducts, reflecting the premium inherent in processing ...