Author(s): Carola Hein
Publication date: Winter 2018
Title: "Old Refineries Rarely Die": Port City Refineries as Key Nodes in The Global Petroleumscape
Abstract
Petroleum and its refined products are globally traded commodities; they are also key elements in our energy landscape and have shaped the built environment in multiple, interconnected ways over the last century. etroleum flows encompass the entire world. Constellations of oil actors — including corporations and nations — shape seemingly disconnected and geographically distant physical spaces over time. Together, they function as a global palimpsestic petroleumscape.