Oil Trading Manual ：A Comprehensive Guide to the Oil Markets

Publication subTitle ：A Comprehensive Guide to the Oil Markets

Author： Long David

Publisher： Elsevier Science‎

Publication year： 1995

E-ISBN: 9781855738522

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781855730748

P-ISBN(Hardback): 9781855730748

Subject： F1 The World Economic Profiles , Economic History , Economic Geography;F7 Trade Economy

Language： ENG

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Description

The Oil Trading Manual (OTM) provides a unique and comprehensive reference source to the latest developments in the structure and conduct of the international oil markets including:

Physical characteristics and refining
Oil pricing arrangements
Physical oil markets
Forward and futures contracts
Options and swaps
Operations and logistics
Accounting and taxation
Controlling financial risk
Legal and regulatory control

OTM provides a unique and comprehensive reference source to the structure and conduct of the international oil markets. The manual covers all the major oil trading instruments and their applications; the trading centres, contracts, uses and users of both the physical and the terminal oil markets, and their administrative, management, tax, and accounting implications. It also includes vital information on changes to the international legal and regulatory structures. The manual is divided into three complementary parts; Characteristics An introduction to oil and oil trading, and includes material on the nature of oil as a commodity, refinery processes and the different ways in which oil is priced. Instruments and markets Deals with the oil market itself taking each segment in turn, explaining how the various trading instruments work and describing the markets that have evolved to trade them. It starts with the physical oil markets, moving on to forward and futures markets, followed by