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Refinery Margin Lab

Change a fictional product mix or price to understand its effect on a simplified per-barrel contribution.

Scenario inputs

Fictional output mix

The three fictional shares must total 100%. This volume-neutral teaching mix omits refinery processing gain.

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Your scenario

Run the example to see the result and its assumptions.

Model boundary

Weighted output value minus crude and variable processing cost. Shares total 100%. This is a synthetic teaching model with no assay, processing gain, fixed costs, capital costs, taxes, emissions costs, constraints or price forecast. It does not estimate company profit.

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