About Us

Opportunity Crudes webpage is created and supported by Hydrocarbon Publishing Company, a part of HPC Global Energy, to provide a comprehensive knowledge base for refiners to process opportunity crudes (aka price-advantaged crudes). The goal is to help the industry tackle inherently poorer quality of these less expensive crudes— high volumes of residual or bottom-of-the-barrel fractions and/or highly acidic (or high TAN number)— and overcome property issues resulted from upstream and midstream operations, e.g., contaminated with organic chlorides, methanol, and other additives.

What we do

We offer three key information: Market Trends and Outlooks, Latest Technologies, Crude Processing Experiences.

Market Trends and Outlooks
We have been monitoring and assessing oil market for global refiners over 30 years with main focus on oil futures and spot prices, production trends of heavy crudes and shale oil, and crack margins. Because of market volatility and shifting refining economics, it is important and invaluable for operators to keep abreast of changing trends of opportunity crudes and stay profitable.

Latest Technologies
Technology developments in process designs, catalysts and additives, hardware equipment, analytical instruments, and Internet of Things (IoT) are ongoing to solve evolving problems. We report the latest commercial licenses, usage announcements, and unit revamps to keep refiners well-informed ahead of the competition.

Crude Processing Experiences
We offer indispensable operating experiences via timely webinars and white papers to shares knowledges of industry practitioners and technology holders with real case studies. Selected presentations of our Opportunity Crudes Conferences are also available to support insights of processing practices worldwide.