Bob van der Valk
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Bob van der Valk is an Independent Consultant in the petroleum industry. He has over 50 years of experience in the wholesale and retail gasoline and lubricants industry. His expertise is in gasoline price forecasting, dealer tank wagon/ zone pricing issues, commercial fueling network, wholesale, retail branded and unbranded matters, refined products margin questions and retail fuel supply issues. Bob is a fuel products marketer and a thoroughly knowledgeable businessman in the refining and downstream marketing sector of the petroleum industry, with particular concentration on the U.S. western region. He is articulate and precise in his explanations of supply & demand patterns, pricing and logistics related to these ...More
markets. As Bob the Gas Guy he has been often quoted by the news media as well as T.V. and radio interviews. His opinions have been solicited by government entities, besides his ongoing daily business of running large scale supply and marketing operations.
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Petroleum Industry Analyst "Bob van der Valk is a Petroleum Industry Analyst with over 50 years of experience in the wholesale and retail gasoline and lubricants industry. He has expertise is in gasoline price forecasting, dealer tank wagon/ zone pricing issues, commercial fueling network, wholesale, retail branded and unbranded ...More
matters, refined products margin questions and retail fuel supply issues.
Bob is a fuel products marketer with thorough knowledge about the business in the refining and downstream marketing sector of the petroleum industry, with particular concentration on the U.S. West Coast region. He is articulate and gives precise explanations of supply & demand patterns, pricing and logistics related to these markets. As "Bob the Gas Guy" he is being quoted by the news media as well as in interviews for T.V. and radio stations about happenings in the petroleum industry. His opinions have been solicited by government entities, besides running his ongoing daily business of managing petroleum supply and marketing operations as a consultant for various independent petroleum companies."
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Bob the Gas Guy
His experience in the U.S. petroleum industry extends for almost fifty years, which includes working for one major oil company and various independent petroleum distributors on the West Coast in various marketing management capacities.
Bob has extensive experience in the retail gasoline business both as a ...More
dealer for Unocal Corporation as well as their Retail and Wholesale Manager for over 30 years.
Bob van der Valk is an expert in retail and wholesale market of the petroleum industry. He does, however, do more than just sell fuel and lubricating oils. He represents it in a simple and agreeable manner on radio, television, as well in the written word.
He has tirelessly and unselfishly devoted a large part of his career to educating the public on what they need to know about the reasons for the wild price swings in the oil markets. His forecasts are unfettered by having a vested interest in either the commodities and equities markets.
His viewpoints on the petroleum industry can be found at web site address:
http://www.4vqp.com/ourconsultants/thegasguy.html
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