Introducing: CrudeView™

CrudeView™ by GeoMark Research is a powerful solution designed to bring clarity to the complexity of global crude oil valuation. Most barrels traded on the global market do not match benchmark grades like WTI or Brent, yet pricing often relies on oversimplified labels like country of origin or blend name. This creates a knowledge gap in assessing the true commercial value of crude. CrudeView solves this problem by offering standardized analysis of over 15,000 crude samples from every major producing basin, enabling true like-for-like comparisons across the globe. Customers gain insights into key quality drivers such as API gravity, sulfur content, and metal concentrations (e.g., Ni, V, Hg) that can shift crude value by $5–30+ per barrel. 

CrudeView empowers customers with clear, consistent data to make smarter commercial and operational decisions. The service helps users benchmark their crudes against global reference grades, identify sweet versus sour character and its market implications, and evaluate contamination trends that affect refining outcomes. The global maps and charts (pages 2–3) illustrate how nickel and vanadium concentrations, critical to refining strategy, vary across basins and influence refinery catalyst life, blending requirements, and pricing penalties. With GeoMark’s standardized laboratory protocols and global dataset (RFDbase), users gain a robust view of quality attributes that impact refining complexity and margin, enabling them to better predict value and risk across their portfolios.

Ultimately, CrudeView equips customers with a competitive advantage in crude trading, refining, and development planning. By visualizing how quality differentials translate into real-world pricing adjustments (as shown on page 4 for Gulf of Mexico, West Africa, Middle East, and Asia), CrudeView reveals where opportunities or risks lie hidden beneath market averages. Whether for asset screening, refining optimization, or commercial strategy, customers can access a live demo to explore this data-rich platform, backed by over 30 years of GeoMark’s analytical experience. With CrudeView, oil companies, traders, and analysts can unlock the true value of every barrel, field by field, and blend by blend.