Sentences with phrase «how low the oil price»

Current WTI prices are not that far from a US$ 40 - per - barrel oil, which has the industry and analysts wonder how low an oil price the U.S. shale can afford.

It is important to understand how lower oil prices helped the U.S. consumer and the economy in recent months.

A lot of this will depend, of course, on how low the oil price gets and how long it stays there.

In short, it is too early to tell how lower oil prices will impact these markets.

Not exact matches

Just how bad low oil prices are — if they're bad at all — kind of depends on your perspective, he says.

How low can oil prices go?

The availability of capital to fund unconventional production is the key to how long low oil prices will last going forward.

This parched patch of land, under which lies the largest oil - producing rock formations in the United States, is the epicenter of a growth binge that shows just how tight the link remains between low unemployment, rising wages, and upward pricing pressure.

The oil production sector in Alberta is now facing lower world oil prices and significant uncertainty as to how the future will unfold.

As a sign of how quickly the economy's prospects are changing (mainly as a result of the spike in oil prices) economists at Lehman Brothers lowered their growth expectations twice in the last three weeks.

Understand how low prices impact companies in the U.S. oil sector.

By now, it should be obvious that the Saudis and their Gulf allies are playing the long game when it comes to the current oil situation, and that means keeping the taps flowing in the midst of a global glut no matter how low prices go.

«What we find is that sustained low or high oil prices could have a major impact on the global energy system over the next several decades; and depending on how the fuel substitution dynamics play out, the carbon dioxide consequences could be significant.»

, Canadian DIY investors are looking at the loonie and oil prices and wondering how low can these possibly go?

No one really knows how long oil prices will continue to support low mortgage rates.

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This analytical report looks at how the key causes of the current food crisis are the combined effects of speculation in food stocks, extreme weather events, low cereal stocks, growth in biofuels competing for cropland and high oil prices.

Over the course of the three - day MCE Deepwater Development (MCEDD) conference hosted by Total and sponsored by Shell, hundreds of industry professionals focused on how to cut costs during a time of record - low oil prices.

We'll see how this outstanding model fares in the face of lower oil prices.

The question is how low will the price of oil go and how long will the price remain low?

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«This unusual response to lower prices is just one more example of how shale oil has changed the market,» said IEA Executive Director Maria van der Hoeven, who launched the report at the Energy Institute's International Petroleum Week in London.

So as we ponder how we are going to deal with energy prices, climate change, dependence on foreign oil and unlivable cities, let's make sure we incentivize the low hanging fruits of efficiency and cycling in order to offset the higher costs of renewable energy, mass transit, and advanced vehicle infrastructure.

During the debate over the Keystone project, the oil industry rolled out a series of studies claiming that pipeline construction would create 20,000 temporary jobs in the United States and that lower oil prices (they didn't say exactly how much lower) resulting from the new crude supplies would create as many as 250,000 more jobs across the country over the long term.

It depends, how long will crude oil prices stay low?