Sadad al - Husseini, recently retired as head of exploration and production at Aramco, the Saudi national oil company, notes that new
oil output coming on - line had to be sufficient to cover both annual growth in world demand of at least 2 million barrels a day and the annual decline in production from existing fields of over 4 million barrels a day.
It notes, for example, that about 55 % of the world's current
oil output comes from countries Freedom House categorizes as «not free,» a substantial risk that makes America's resurgence in oil production all the more important.
Not exact matches
Total upstream production
came in at 689,400 barrels of
oil equivalent per day in the first quarter, compared to 725,100 boe / d in the prior year quarter, as oilsands
output fell to 404,800 barrels per day from 448,500 bpd.
Venezuela's plunging
output and looming U.S. sanctions against Iran
come against a backdrop of strong demand, especially in Asia, the world's biggest
oil consuming region.
Venezuela's plunging
output comes amid strong demand as well as concerns that supplies from the Middle East, by far the world's biggest
oil producing region, could also be disrupted, especially should the United States in May re-impose sanctions against OPEC - member Iran.
The agreement does not include U.S. shale
oil producers, and there are concerns that rising
oil prices, largely thanks to the
oil output cut, has allowed U.S. producers to
come back online.
At that price, not only are plans to double
output from the
oil sands no longer commercially viable, but current production levels also
come into question.
National Bank also highlighted that major maintenance initiatives are planned at Syncrude Canada Ltd., Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.'s Athabasca
oil sands project and Suncor Energy Inc.'s base plant — which cumulatively could reduce industry
oil output by 650,000 barrels per day in the
coming months, easing some of the stress on full pipeline networks.
If the mining sector is abandoned because money is
coming in through the increase in price and
output of
oil, there will continue to be problems.»
Shell states that tar sands are less damaging that coal: Well since when was coal and
oil used to the same ends unless they are talking about widespread adaption of CTL technology which could happen in some countries with large scale coal rserves I guess but even I doubt that CTL projects will scale to 3 — 5 mbpd which is the projected
output of Albertas
oil sands
come 2030.
Ideally, major artists avoid or subvert trends instead of following them, and there's nothing in Ratcatcher's poetic, child's - eye view of a suburban garbage strike or Morvern Callar's deft, intimate, portrait of a young woman coping with her boyfriend's suicide to hint that its creator's
output would
come to even superficially resemble the
oil - slick schtick of, say, Nicolas Winding Refn.
The
oil seal on the front
output shaft is faulty when there are unusual noises or leaking
coming from the transfer case.
The forecast for stronger
output comes as global
oil prices topped $ 65 a barrel on Tuesday, the strongest since June 2015, driven by continued supply curbs from OPEC and an outage on a key North Sea pipeline.
I look at the forecast growth for
oil sands
output, do the math and
come to the conclusion that to move the incremental
output to market we need the Keystone AND the Kinder Morgan expansion AND the Northern Gateway AND a pipeline to Eastern Canada.