General Chat

Petroleum products, refined and semi-refined, are traded world wide - not the same thing as crude oil transport at all. Many major producers of crude have little in the way of the capacity to create refined products while those that do always have big holes in their capacity. Moreover some types of crude are better for refining than others being "sweet". That is why North Sea Brent marker sells at a premium to west Texas.

sending oil to Texas? bit like sending coals to Newcastle :-D

For many years (until made redundant) my OH worked for the oil trading dept of a well known oil major. On one occasion she sent an 80 000 ton tanker to Boston, New England when it should have gone to Houston, Texas. The cargo was a bit late.

Awwwwwwwwwww

On that note North Dakota is in the north correct but so is South Dakota.
AND
South Carolina is in the south but so is North Carolina.
AND JUST TO CONFUSE PEOPLE
There is a plain Virginia and a West Virginia but it is not in the west, and north of just plain Vrginia

You know, the way that the World Atlas is laid out, recalling when the raid on Pearl Harbour took place, I for a long while didn't understand why the Japanese navy went ALL that way across the ocean.

I didn't realise that Hawaii wasn't all that far from them............

I'm the other way around. I can probably tell you where places are, but once there, my sense of (local) direction just disappears :-(

'If you don't know where you're going, you'll be lost when you get there'.
(Yogi Berra).

:-D :-D

I have never really been sure of where I am, never mind anywhere else.

I can tell, more or less, where most of the African countries and the American states go on the map now, thank you Sporcle, but it was not so many years ago that I found out that California and Florida are on different sides of the USA.

Probably because I had never had to think about it, the coast nearer to us was always my west coast of America as well and Cuba and the Carribean islands were off the other side, which was my eastern seaboard.

Imagine my surprise when I was moving my globe lamp the other day and found the Caribbean Islands not where I had left them