Datamonitor's Global Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing industry profile is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the oil & gas refining & marketing industry. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, plus textual analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, demographic information, and descriptions of the leading companies.

Scope

* Contains an executive summary and data on value, volume and segmentation

* Provides textual analysis of the industry's prospects, competitive landscape and leading companies

* Includes a five-year forecast of the industry

* Supported by the key macroeconomic and demographic data affecting the market

Highlights

* Detailed information is included on market size, measured by both value and volume

* Market shares are covered by manufacturer and/or brand

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Market Definition - The oil and gas refining and marketing sector is valued as the revenues generated from the sale to end-users of refined oil products (such as gasoline and diesel fuel) and natural gas. Sector volumes refer to collective annual consumption of all refined oil products and natural gas with units of barrels of oil equivalent. Any currency conversions used in this report have been calculated using constant 2006 annual average exchange rates.

For the purpose of this report, Europe comprises Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

Asia-Pacific comprises Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan.

The Americas comprises the US, Canada, Brazil, and Mexico.

The global market comprises Asia-Pacific, Europe, and Americas.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3
CHAPTER 1 Market Overview 7
1.1 Market Definition 7
1.2 Research Highlights 7
1.3 Market Analysis 8
CHAPTER 2 Market Value 9
CHAPTER 3 Market Volume 10
CHAPTER 4 Market Segmentation I 11
CHAPTER 5 Market Segmentation II 12
CHAPTER 6 Market Share 13
CHAPTER 7 Competitive Landscape 14
CHAPTER 8 Leading Companies 15
8.1 BP Plc 15
8.2 Royal Dutch Shell PLC 15
8.3 Chevron Corporation 15
CHAPTER 9 Market Forecasts 16
9.1 Market Value Forecast 16
9.2 Market Volume Forecast 17
CHAPTER 10 Further Reading 18
10.1 Sources 18
10.2 Related Datamonitor Research 18

LIST OF TABLES
Table 1: Global Oil & Gas Refining & marketing Market Value: $ billion, 2002-2006 9
Table 2: Global Oil & Gas Refining & marketing Market Volume: Barrels of oil equivalent billion, 2002-2006 10
Table 3: Global Oil & Gas Refining & marketing Market Segmentation I: % Share, by Volume, 2006 11
Table 4: Global Oil & Gas Refining & marketing Market Segmentation II: % Share, by Value, 2006 12
Table 5: Global Oil & Gas Refining & marketing Market Share: % Share, by Value, 2006 13
Table 6: Global Oil & Gas Refining & marketing Market Value Forecast: $ billion, 2006-2011 16
Table 7: Global Oil & Gas Refining & marketing Market Volume Forecast: Barrels of oil equivalent billion, 2006-2011 17