Nelson-Farrar Quarterly: Annual refinery construction indexes listed for 80+ years

Jan. 9, 2012

Gary Farrar
Contributing Editor

Here are yearly values for the Nelson-Farrar refinery inflation cost index since 1926 (see table above).

They are based on 1946 as 100, since that was the date of index inception. Values from 1926 to 1945 were back-calculated.