Increased exploration spurred by high oil prices paired with that drop in demand led to two
decades of low oil prices.
Not exact matches
«BP is continuing to plan for a
lower oil price world,» chief executive Bob Dudley said on Tuesday, adding that «I'm not expecting big shifts in
prices anytime soon and a
price of $ 50 a barrel looks like the right number to plan on for the rest
of the
decade.»
«BP is continuing to plan for a
lower oil price world,» chief executive Bob Dudley said earlier this month, adding that «I'm not expecting big shifts in
prices anytime soon and a
price of $ 50 a barrel looks like the right number to plan on for the rest
of the
decade.»
More than three years after Bob Dudley said that
oil prices would be
lower for longer, BP's chief executive still thinks «a
price of $ 50 a barrel looks like the right number to plan on for the rest
of the
decade.»
After bottoming out at
decade - plus
lows in February,
oil prices finished the year up more than 40 %, lifting the prospects for a lot
of companies across the
oil and gas industry.
I noted that
oil exploration is a «long game» gauged around the likelihood for rising demand in
decades to come, but asked if they thought
low prices (and projections for more
of the same) played a role?
Last month we connected he
lowest pre-Labor Day gasoline
prices in more than a
decade with the global cost
of crude
oil, the main factor in
prices at the pump.
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The gift that is American energy is seen in some key numbers: domestic crude
oil production reaching more than 9 million barrels per day last month, the highest level in more than two
decades, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA); total U.S. net imports
of energy as a share
of energy consumption falling to their
lowest level in nearly 30 years during the first six months
of this year; gasoline
prices dropping to an average
of $ 2.47 per gallon last week, their
lowest point since May 2009, according to the Lundberg Survey Inc..
With the influx
of shale
oil on the market, for example, we're seeing
lower gasoline
prices this summer than we have in over a
decade.
If the
price of oil stays high enough and Russian taxes stay
low enough to justify the costly extraction
of Arctic
oil reserves (the going rate for ice platforms is $ 15 billion a pop), this could keep Exxon on top
of the world for
decades, and it might do more to cement U.S. — Russian relations than any deal in history.