1. We need a list of all the oil refineries, inclusive of contact
details, in operation, in the world,

2. Which countries have crude oil supplies and who are their controlling bodies

These might be usefull ...

Energy Statistics
http://www.iea.org/Textbase/stats/index.asp

Topics for Petroleum Refining and Processing
http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/pet_pnp_top.asp

International Petroleum Information
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/international/petroleu.html

Canada Oil & Gas Report August 2005 (pdf - 3mb)
http://www.nr.gov.nl.ca/mines&en/oil/oil_gas_report_aug05.pdf

Some interesting oil industry statistics 
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/usa.html

California's Oil Refineries
http://www.energy.ca.gov/oil/refineries.html

http://www.kuwait-info.org/Statistics/oil_and_industry.html

Analysis patterns for oil refineries
http://jerry.cs.uiuc.edu/~plop/plop2002/final/Refinery0714.pdf

Petroleum Production in India
http://www.indiastat.com/india/ShowData.asp?secid=229&ptid=25&level=2

http://www.oilandgasinternational.com/

http://www.plexxa.com/d/35119778140/oil_companies

http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/MEC_Current/September.html

effects of crude oil prices and oil inventory
http://econwpa.wustl.edu/eps/mic/papers/0406/0406001.pdf

Many thanks for your listings, I will follow them up.

Regards

OIL REFINERIES

I am pleased to provide you  an URL  which would provide you 
a list of refineries with capacity world over.  This is an exhaustive
list made countrywise and in alphabetic order. When you click on a
country you get the complete list of refineries in the country with
its capacity.  Many of the refineries carry link to their own site or
to other resources from you could gather further information about the
refineries.

The link to countrywise refinery list:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oil_refineries


If you are in the look for further information on oil ? the best bet is Energy
Information Administration:

Consumption
Production
World Oil Balance
Price
Oil reserves and resources
Imports and Exports (Trade)
Stocks Inventories
Refinery capacity
Rotary rigs in operation
Carbon dioxide emission
Gross heat content
Conversion factors

The link:

http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/international/petroleu.html#IntlRefinery

You can get information such as :

50 largest US oil producing companies
Largest oil and gas fields
Leading suppliers of US imports 
Top exporting countries
Top consuming countries
Top producing countries
US Refining capacity
US Production by state

Get it from here:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/neic/rankings/rankindex.htm

In fact this site has much more data than listed above.  Please visit
the site and extract whatever information you require.


Interesting information is here:
It would be a very interesting read:

World Oil Market and Oil Price Chronologies: 1970 - 2004 

Get it from here:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/chron.html

Hope this will be of help to you.