By the time the president made the decision, oil prices were so low that the «unlikely» low oil price scenario in the State Department Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)-- where oil prices fell below $ 75 a barrel — had actually come to be and thus there was no shying away from the fact that the pipeline would cause the equivalent of over 6 million passengers cars worth of carbon pollution every year for at least 50 years. (nrdc.org)
The current oil price scenarios appear to have not calculated this in however, as all media is focused on the effects of hurricane Harvey and the Gulf of Mexico. (oilprice.com)
Russia's economic growth depends very much on different oil price scenarios, according to Oleg Kouzmin and Charles Robertson, economist and chief economist respectively at Renaissance Capital bank. (nbr.com)