All of that money is being translated into a sharp rise in drilling even
as oil prices slump.
Both Abu Dhabi and Dubai are encouraging the development of theme parks to help boost foreign tourist arrivals
as oil prices slump, causing an economic slowdown in the region.
Commodity hedge funds have dwindled in recent years
as oil prices slumped, leaving only a handful of larger players, including Hall, who ran the Astenbeck Capital Management fund until deciding to close it following losses this year.
After a dip in transactions in 2015 and 2016
as oil prices slumped, the fund regained its appetite for deals late last year, investing in Turkey's biggest poultry producer, Rosneft, and U.K. gas company National Grid Plc, all within a couple of months.
Not exact matches
Exxon's profits have improved over the last year
as the
oil market continues to recover from a prolonged
price slump.
The March increase was the largest year - over-year move since it hit 2.4 per cent in October 2014, just
as the
oil -
price slump was getting underway.
We may be enjoying amazingly low
prices at the gas pump, but
as oil prices continuing to slide we must also remember the catastrophic events that have followed almost every drastic
oil price slump in the past.
Some analysts, however, said there was a risk that
prices could
slump as too many
oil traders were betting on renewed sanctions.
As the headquarters city of choice for the energy industry, Calgary has been hit hard by the
slumping price of
oil.
The Aramco investment comes
as a relief for Petronas which has cut expenditures in the past year
as oil prices have
slumped from over $ 100 a barrel in 2014.
The deal will boost Aramco's downstream business ahead of a planned initial public offering next year and also bolsters Malaysia's state - controlled Petroliam Nasional Bhd - known
as Petronas - after it cut spending because of the
slump in
oil prices.
Even
as the energy companies look to savor the recent recovery in
oil prices after a protracted
slump, the U.S. presidential election is seen
as posing the next big threat.
However, the Canadian Energy Research Institute has indicated that
oil production in Canada is likely to scale up by about 600,000 barrels per day in 2017 and by another 200,000 next year,
as a number of projects that were being developed prior to the
oil -
price slump are nearing completion.
Flowserve also returned to the portfolio
as its share
price slumped during the
oil price collapse.
Slumping oil prices have caused Conoco — and most if not all of its peers — a lot of pain
as it costs
oil drillers more to produce a barrel of
oil than they can sell it for.
Over the first six weeks of the year, the Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 10 %,
as the prospect of interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve, a
slump in
oil prices, and concerns about economic conditions in Europe and China caused the long - running bull market to stumble.
Petroliam Nasional Bhd., Malaysia's state
oil company, announced management changes and plans to cut workers
as it seeks to trim operating costs to cope with the worst
price slump in a generation.
Petroliam Nasional Bhd., Malaysia's state
oil company, announced management changes and plans to cut workers
as it seeks to trim operating costs to cope with the worst
price slump in Continue Reading
Oil — tapping $ 42
as price slumps to multi-week low.
The
oil sector is slipping into the red after years of fat profits
as the steep
slump in
oil prices shows little sign of ending, with this quarter shaping up to be the worst since the downturn started.
This serves
as a companion to my recent commentary on
slumping oil prices.
He identified the
slump in the international
oil market
price and
oil theft in the Niger Delta
as main reasons for projecting more revenues to fund the budget from the non-
oil sector.
Oil majors are facing hard times, too, with BP set to axe 4,000 jobs as the total of shelved oil investments breaches $ 400bn since the price slump began in late 20
Oil majors are facing hard times, too, with BP set to axe 4,000 jobs
as the total of shelved
oil investments breaches $ 400bn since the price slump began in late 20
oil investments breaches $ 400bn since the
price slump began in late 2014.
And
as has been the case for the past few weeks, the Loonie just ignored
oil prices, which
slumped rather hard this week.
Tar sands projects are already threatened by a
slump in
oil prices,
as well
as pending global action to address climate change.
Markets that were expected to fully recover from the downturn have experienced issues with their class - A stock, such
as the drop in
oil prices in Houston and the
slump in demand in the Washington, D.C. region.