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Table A4.   Data for Figure 6: U.S. Refining Capital Expenditures for FRS Companies

(Billions of 2001 Dollars)
Year FRS Total
Capital
Expenditures
for U.S. Refining
FRS Share
of Environmental
Expenditures
(based on API)
FRS Share
of Environmental
Expenditures
(based on Census)
1974 13.9   3.2
1975 13.8   3.1
1976 11.9   2.1
1977 5.9   1.5
1978 7.1   1.5
1979 9.4   1.4
1980 9.0   1.1
1981 12.0   1.0
1982 12.9   1.1
1983 8.9   0.7
1984 8.2   0.4
1985 4.9   0.4
1986 3.5   0.5
1987 3.6   0.5
1988 6.4 0.6 0.5
1989 3.9 0.5 0.3
1990 4.6 1.1 0.7
1991 6.5 1.5 0.9
1992 6.7 2.7 1.7
1993 5.6 2.6 1.5
1994 5.0 2.4 1.4
1995 4.1 1.6  
1996 2.3 0.6  
1997 1.8 0.3  
1998 4.7 1.0  
1999 3.0 0.5  
2000 7.7 0.8  
2001 12.1 1.1  
Sources:   U.S.refining capital expenditures - Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-28 (Financial Reporting System).   Environmental capital expenditures - 1990-1996: American Petroleum Institute, Petroleum Industry Environmental Performance (Washington, DC, May 1997), pp. 47-48.   1997-2001: American Petroleum Institute, U.S. Oil and Natural Gas Industry's Environmental Expenditures (Washington, DC, February 2003), p. 9.   FRS environmental capital expenditures are prorated by share of U.S. crude distillation capacity.   1974-1994: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Pollution Abatement Costs and Expenditures: 1994, MA200(94)-1(Washington, DC, 1996), pp. 6-7, and earlier editions of the Census report.   Since the American Petroleum Institute data are continuous over the 1990-2001 period, they were utilized for this study.   Estimates of costs and expenditures were made by applying the ratio of the American Petroleum Institute series to the corresponding Census series for the 1990-1994 overlap period to the Census values for 1988 and 1989.

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