Yesterday's oil initially rallied on a report that Saudi Arabia was raising
crude prices for customers showing that they are confident about demand and not worried about losing market share.
Alberta's unconventional oil reserves are big enough to meaningfully increase world oil supplies — and lower
crude prices for everyone — if they're fully developed.
The good news is that the projected
crude price for the remainder of 2015 should be high enough to support continued production in drilling areas such as the Bakken, Eagle Ford and Permian basins, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA).
Not exact matches
Crude oil
prices in Canadian dollars
for Brent (North Sea, UK), West Texas Intermediate (Cushing, OK, USA), and Edmonton Par.
The
price of oil has risen to its highest since late 2014 this month, driven by concern over the potential
for disruption to Iranian
crude flows, but analysts say the degree of uncertainty hanging over the deal means the market is extremely sensitive to any developments.
The incident might result in restrictions on using rail to transport oil, which could increase the
price discount
for Canadian
crude.
A rebound in oil
prices following the 2014 collapse of the
crude market has somewhat curbed the need
for such a large IPO, sources told the Wall Street Journal.
The spot
price for Brent
Crude has recovered from a mid-January low of US$ 27.19 to just above the US$ 50 mark.
Soaring U.S. shale production has been a nagging concern
for OPEC and its allies, but the group's key players appear to be more fixated on the immediate benefits of high
crude prices.
Although the oil
price and the dollar have moved in tandem
for the last few weeks, the two generally tend to trade in the opposite direction, as a stronger dollar encourages non-U.S. investors to sell oil and
crude - importing countries to curtail their purchases.
The decreases are largely the result of the oil glut and all - time lows
for crude prices — last year, mining, oil producers, and metal companies lost a combined $ 70 billion on $ 1.3 trillion in revenue.
U.S. President Donald Trump slammed OPEC
for inflating oil
prices after the cartel showed a willingness to further tighten
crude markets.
(SAGD stands
for Steam - Assisted Gravity Drainage; WTI
for Western Texas Intermediate, a
crude oil
price benchmark.)
This might eventually pressure
crude prices, even though oil and the dollar have moved in tandem
for a few weeks.
Running
for the Progressive Conservatives, he won a seat in 1986 and was appointed employment minister just as the
price of
crude plunged and the unemployment rate spiked to 10.4 %.
And in energy, high
prices for synthetic
crude and liquid natural gas mean producers are generating a lot of extra cash.
After all,
crude oil and commodities
prices are still so low that plunging resource revenues forced Ottawa to defer its target date
for balancing the budget.
For example, refining margins tend to expand when oil
prices decline as the savings refiners reap from using cheaper
crude to make gasoline and other products aren't immediately passed on to consumers at the pump.
Oil
prices were steady on Thursday following a larger - than - expected increase in U.S.
crude inventories: U.S.
crude futures were higher by 0.04 percent at $ 67.96 per barrel and Brent
crude futures
for July delivery were flat at $ 73.36.
Brent
crude, used to set
prices for international varieties of
crude, was down 73 cents at $ 110.47 a barrel.
Business investment is inhibited by the low
prices for Canadian
crude and weak domestic demand.
For investors, the potentially high rates of return, compared with commercial loan rates running about 5 percent to 7 percent, have spurred interest despite
crude prices under $ 50 a barrel.
For one thing, the concerns over the decline in crude oil prices may be overdone, it said, adding that the economy is still resilient and Malaysia is likely to maintain a trade surplus as demand for imports is also softening along with expor
For one thing, the concerns over the decline in
crude oil
prices may be overdone, it said, adding that the economy is still resilient and Malaysia is likely to maintain a trade surplus as demand
for imports is also softening along with expor
for imports is also softening along with exports.
Brent
crude, the global benchmark, hit its highest since OPEC on Nov. 27, 2014 turned its back on curbing output to support
prices, a move that triggered a battle
for market share and helped deepen a collapse to $ 27 in early 2016.
If you match these volumes up with a comparison of landed costs of similar
crude import streams into the U.S. vs. the
prices of Canadian
crudes, you can get a sense
for the foregone value.
Last year, funds that bet on an oil -
price recovery were hit as
crude in June fell to $ 42.05, the low
for the year.
volatility of commodity
prices for crude oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids («NGLs») and the risk of an extended period of depressed
prices;
Additionally,
prices for its major commodity exports -
crude oil and palm oil - have dropped sharply and its currency, the ringgit, is trading close to its lowest levels since the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s.
Malaysia's shares and currency have been hit with a toxic brew of declines in the
prices of its commodity exports, especially palm oil and
crude oil, as well as what may be the country's worst - ever political scandal, which has spurred protests calling
for the removal of the prime minister from power.
Should these lines and other added capacity close the
price differential between West Texas Intermediate and Brent
crude, the economic case
for Gateway would suffer.
When the spread between West Texas Intermediate
crude oil and Western Canadian Select narrowed to US$ 10 a barrel last summer, some analysts declared that the big
price differentials were gone
for good.
In early March, as rebels fought
for control of the country's east coast ports, where much of the country's oil is refined or shipped abroad, the
price of the American
crude contract (West Texas Intermediate, or WTI) broke US$ 100
for the first time since 2008.
The depressed
prices mean lower
prices for refiners and less pump pain
for North American drivers, but it's hardly good news
for Canada's oil industry, which spent billions on oilsands projects after world
crude prices had risen high enough to justify the investment.
Oil supply concerns are greater
for Europe, where
crude prices have jumped even higher due to the region's larger energy reliance on MENA.
They argue that possible sanctions on the Venezuelan energy sector would harm the U.S. industry, and cause it to scramble
for heavy
crude supplies from elsewhere, which would result in higher fuel
prices for consumers.
Fuel
prices have been declining over the past month due to seasonal trends and the falling
price of
crude, said Patrick DeHaan, a senior petroleum analyst
for GasBuddy.com.
«With so much supply landlocked, Canadian oil
prices are taking a serious hit,» Casey Research energy analyst Marin Katusa wrote in a late June investment note that estimated that Western Canadian Select, a heavy
crude, was trading
for a whopping US$ 23 less than WTI; a gap 30 % larger than the average differential between 2006 and 2010.
The
price gap between North American
crude and world
prices is a new and unfamiliar dynamic in international oil markets, and represents a «double whammy discount»
for Western Canadian producers, as Casey puts it.
The hard fact
for North American producers is only now are we seeing a true market
price for crude oil.
When national budgets of various oil - producing countries are determined by
crude prices, then a lower
price forces capital to be repatriated back to the country of origin (and we haven't even mentioned Russia, which is flooding the
crude market
for budgetary reasons).
Goldman Sachs is not ready to raise its $ 62 target on Brent and $ 57.50 forecast
for U.S.
crude in 2018, but says there's a growing risk that global inventories will fall too quickly and push up
prices.
With the recent drop in commodity
prices, especially
for West Texas Intermediate
crude oil, consumers are poised to win big - time while many in the financial markets are seeing a stream of losses.
High demand
for diesel and home heating fuel in particular means refineries are willing to pay more
for crude oil, said Tom Kloza, global head of energy analysis at Oil
Price Information Service.
The reason
for this is that many countries in Asia used the prior period of falling
crude prices to end, or dramatically scale back, their fuel subsidies.
Morgan Stanley also noted that oil and gas exports account
for nearly 16 percent of Malaysia's gross domestic product (GDP), and the sector has been hard hit by
crude prices falling below $ 50 a barrel again.
This means that current oil
prices are higher than
prices for crude deliveries in the future.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley both upped their forecasts
for crude prices this week, while Goldman Sachs said the risks of
prices overshooting its current targets are mounting.
Again, how much longer this can continue is uncertain, but one would imagine at some point rising
crude prices will have to be reflected in higher retail
prices for diesel and gasoline.
Oil
prices have skyrocketed around 40 percent since the middle of 2017, with Brent
crude rising to multi-year highs above $ 71 a barrel, before a pullback last week wiped out its gains
for 2018.
World stock markets skidded further Wednesday as fresh declines in
crude oil
prices stoked fears
for the health of the global economy.