Refinery advantage: the US shale revolution boosted crude production to a record 10.5 million barrels per day, upending the global
oil market by adding millions of barrels of very light crude to the supply mix.
«The theft of
the oil market by some Nigerians that happen to live there who feel that the oil belongs to them and not the country is an irritating thing for those of us who participated in the civil war for 30 months in which at least two million Nigerians were killed,» he said.
Mueller - Glissmann and colleagues forecast that «balance» would return to global
oil markets by 2016 and they upgraded their 12 - month view of the commodity sector to «overweight» from «neutral».
Not exact matches
As the North American
oil transportation system continues to evolve, with new pipelines, reversals of existing lines and a growing role for
oil -
by - rail, what is clear is that the North American
oil market will eventually settle into a new era of pricing relationships which will be very different than those which prevailed prior to 2008.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper lent support to the 1,200 - kilometre, $ 6 - billion pipeline that would carry more than 500,000 barrels a day of crude
oil from Edmonton through the Rockies to Kitimat, B.C., where it could be transported
by tanker to
markets in the U.S. and Asia, including China.
The
market was also supported
by concerns around
oil output from Venezuela.
The OPEC member that needs the «lowest» price of
oil to balance this year's expenditure is Iran, at $ 52 a barrel, according to data
by RBC Capital
Markets.
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.
CALGARY, Alberta, May 2 - Alberta will hold talks with rail operators and
oil producers aimed at smoothing the path to get more crude moving
by rail to
market amid a transportation bottleneck in the Western Canadian province, Alberta's energy minister said on Wednesday.
CALGARY, Alberta, May 2 - Suncor Energy Inc said on Wednesday that its current growth plan is not constrained
by pipeline bottlenecks and it does not expect to make any further major investments in Canada's
oil sands until
market access improves.
And here is an insightful read
by energy expert, Marin Katusa: Will Iran's Runaway Inflation Spark an
Oil Bull
Market?
Despite this, traders said
oil was unlikely to tumble far as
markets remain supported
by strong economic growth and
by supply restrictions led
by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and Russia.
For its part, the
oil and gas industry,
by pouring investment into the oilsands with little concern for how it's going to get the
oil out to
markets, «is playing a high - stakes game of chicken,» Cann adds.
SINGAPORE, May 3 -
Oil dipped on Thursday, weighed down
by swelling U.S. crude inventories and record weekly U.S. production that undermined efforts
by OPEC to cut supplies, although potential new U.S. sanctions against Iran kept
markets on the...
The world's largest publicly - traded
oil and gas company
by market value has ridden out a collapse in crude prices better than most, its vertically - integrated model allowing downstream businesses to capture the value that upstream operations lose when
oil prices are low.
In response to a question about whether a rate cut amounted to pouring gasoline on the overheated housing
market, Poloz said «We admit that these conditions are likely to cause financial imbalances,» in some cases, but that the Bank's primary goal is to ameliorate the «financial shock» to the economy caused
by the drop in
oil prices.
The International Energy Agency said Friday the
oil market is re-balancing as demand continues to grow but more time is needed before these shifting fundamentals are felt
by markets.
It's this forbidding territory that Exxon (xom), under Tillerson, has turned into one of Russia's most lucrative
oil provinces, affording Russia a crucial entry into the fast - growing
oil markets of Asia, generating nearly $ 5 billion in tax dollars and other revenue for the government to date, and generally being,
by Moscow's lights, a good corporate citizen.
On the other hand, if the province decided not to become involved in the firm shipping
market, they would distort the signals received
by the regulators in terms of the demand for shipping services, leaving the system short of capacity and lowering the value of Canadian
oil in the process.
Oh, and crude
oil futures have also hit new 13 - year lows as Iran marks its return to
markets by dumping millions of barrels that have been stored, sanctions - bound, for years.
Russia's stock
market dipped on Monday morning, dragged lower
by the prospect of fresh U.S. sanctions and lower
oil prices.
Railways, who added crude
by rail capacity earlier this decade only to have the
market vanish as pipeline space opened up, have been slow to move back in the
oil transport business, asking producers to sign longer - term deals.
To be fair, there have been a several times that
markets didn't recover as quickly after seismic geopolitical events such as the invasion of France in 1940 and the Yom Kippur War (which led to a complete realignment of control over global
oil), according to the Credit Suisse team led
by Keating.
«
Oil market «locked», almost all funds expect further price rises», Reuters, March 27 (Editing
by Edmund Blair)
The NOCs are being approached
by lawyers and investment bankers not just from Calgary but from Houston and Melbourne too, seeking patient capital for long - timeline projects while equity prices for energy companies have been steadily sinking on stock
markets despite the high price of
oil.
The United States will overtake Russia as the world's biggest
oil producer
by 2019 at the latest, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Tuesday, as the country's shale
oil boom continues to upend global
markets.
The world's largest
oil company
by market value had cut even cut its capital budget for the quarter
by 38 %, but it wasn't enough.
Meanwhile, U.S. net imports of crude
oil fell last week
by 1.6 million bpd to 4.98 million bpd, the lowest level since the EIA started recording the data in 2001, reflecting further erosion in a
market OPEC has been relying on for decades.
It was unlikely Petronas would have made its decision
by year - end regardless of the recent turmoil in
oil markets, Kallio added
The strongly worded ruling from Judge Leon was in a case brought against the governors of the Federal Reserve
by a group of plaintiffs including the National Association of Convenience Stores, the National Retail Federation, the Food
Marketing Institute, Miller
Oil Co., Boscov's Department Store and the National Restaurant Association.
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).
The banks says the long - oversupplied
oil market is tightening up more quickly than expected as global economic growth fuels demand and output cuts
by OPEC, Russia and several other producers eat into the world's crude stockpiles.
On Tuesday, Merrill Lynch analysts said they now expect the
oil market to be undersupplied
by about 430,000 barrels a day in 2018, up from their prior forecast for a 100,000 - barrel - per - day deficit.
Oil market locked, almost all funds expect further price rises, Reuters, March 27 (Editing
by Mark Heinrich)
At the conference, presented
by CNBC and Institutional Investor, Cooperman also shared his view on the
market and
oil prices over the next year.
Canada's
oil will be extracted and
marketed regardless of Keystone, the report contended, and could be shipped to the U.S.
by rail, which has higher emissions.
In a note on Friday, Morgan Stanley analysts wrote that the recent gain in the US
oil - rig count is one reason why they are losing conviction in their call for a re-balancing of the
market by mid-2017.
LONDON, Nov 1 (Reuters)- European
oil futures fell on Thursday as investors continued to analyse the aftermath of super storm Sandy, while U.S. futures gained as U.S.
markets geared back up after the severe battering to the east coast delivered
by Sandy.
Some analysts and U.S.
oil producers fear Keystone XL will depress crude prices
by adding to an already oversupplied global
market.
Potential
oil price rises are «very much capped»
by the availability of short - cycle
oil production from the US, Neil Atkinson, head of the
oil industry and
Markets Division at IEA said.
There was a simple answer to the economic question: Keystone is the fastest and easiest way to bring Alberta's
oil to
market, which will in turn lower the price of
oil by about a dollar per barrel for every American — regardless of where the stuff is ultimately sold.
«While we are seeing solid U.S. fuel margins year to date, this quarter's results were negatively impacted
by volatility in the crude
oil market, particularly in the southwest US,» he said in a news release.
The
oil market is re-balancing as demand continues to grow but more time is needed before these shifting fundamentals are felt
by markets, the latest report from the International Energy Agency said Friday.
Prices for crude
oil, the world economy's most essential commodity, will need until 2020 to recover from the price war unleashed last year
by Saudi Arabia, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday in its annual outlook for the global energy
market.
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Though crude
oil fell initially, prices were up
by the time
markets opened on Monday, suggesting that bin Laden — dead or alive — may not be a key factor in determining
oil prices.
The Paris - based IEA forecasts in its latest
oil markets report that crude -
by - rail exports will grow from 150,000 barrels a day in late 2017 to 250,000 barrels a day this year and then to 390,000 barrels a day in 2019.
Omar said Malaysia was suffering particularly because it was an emerging
market at a time of capital outflows, it was a net exporter of
oil and gas at a time of a significant drop in prices, and it was perceived to be badly affected
by the Chinese slowdown as China was its largest trading partner.
O'Loughlin said that relatively high
oil prices, supported
by healthy demand and production cuts
by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to tighten
markets, «are encouraging U.S. shale producers to continue ramping up production.»
On the contrary the Jewish interest is solely in the
marketing of petroleum products and even there it is probably no more than 5 per cent, the chief marketer being American
Oil of Baltimore, and American
Oil, though still managed
by the Blausteins, who founded it, is now controlled
by a Standard of Indiana subsidiary.