Houston & Dallas: As long as
oil prices stay strong (oil was hovering near $ 44 a barrel at this writing), office, retail, and industrial warehouse demand should be stable.
It depends, how long will crude
oil prices stay low?
Oil Production Forecast Alberta's Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB) has released a report predicting that the province will go from 1.32 million barrels of raw bitumen per day in 2007 to 3.2 million barrels per day in 2017 (and who knows, if
oil prices stay high, they could ramp it up even more quickly).
If
the oil prices stay low and U.S. shale oil extraction becomes uneconomic, maybe oil workers can find a new career in clean energy...
If
oil prices stay firm or rise from these levels, we would look at the 7 %,» Abheek Barua, chief economist of HDFC Bank told Reuters news agency.
But will
oil prices stay this low if the economy recovers later this year, as some economists have predicted?
But if
oil prices stay too low for too long, they will no longer be able to afford to keep purchasing CO2.
Sergei Guriev, a former advisor to the Russian government, told CNBC that, should
oil prices stay at their near - record lows of around $ 82 a barrel, Russia, which is basing its economic forecasts on a much higher oil price, would face a «serious problem.»
If
oil prices stay where they are now, Russia's economy could be in serious trouble and could face recession in the coming year, analysts warn.
But if
oil prices stay low, Petronas» dividend cut could be just the beginning.
All three companies are risky though in the sense that if they can not find a buyer, their future is in doubt assuming
oil prices stay low.
Assuming
oil prices stay in this narrow range, we believe there are some important implications of lower oil price volatility for investors:
Furthermore, it is relatively easy to come up with plausible scenarios where
oil prices stay flat or even fall, usually involving some combination of a slowdown in China's economy and state - owned enterprises increasing oil production to make up lost revenue through increased volumes.
Sure, many analysts see
oil prices staying depressed through this year, and the most pessimistic see
oil prices staying low for several years.
Though buyouts are rare in the cyclical industry, it could make sense for investors willing to bet on a Malaysian recovery and on
oil prices staying low.
The last time
oil prices stayed low for a very long time was the 1980s and 1990s.
What this argues for is crude
oil prices staying lower for a longer period of time — my guess is between $ 30 and $ 50 per barrel of Brent - type crude.
So long as the conventional crude
oil price stays above 31.5 USD2006 / boe (excluding profits) it is profitable to extract oil sands.
Not exact matches
Given the optimistic
oil price predictions in the budget, further tough decisions may be necessary in the future if the budget is to
stay balanced.
Depressed
oil prices should be spurring some takeovers for the energy space, but if the sector's big dogs no longer believe
oil could
stay above $ 40 a barrel or if they know about pitfalls the market is not seeing, that could threaten the M&A prospects, Cramer said.
As long as production levels
stay high, the outlook for
oil prices will remain weak, as will the Canadian dollar, the TSX and the job prospects for those in Alberta and Newfoundland and Labrador.»
Of course, there's a chance that
oil prices will
stay around US$ 60 for an extended period or even continue to drop, especially if there's another economic crisis or a worry that one is about to occur.
Rive argues that it should
stay underground, that the
oil majors look at the world through petroleum - coated lenses, and that the benefits of solar are so obvious that once the
price becomes more competitive, fossil - fuel use will plunge.
Crude
oil futures are at just over $ 44 / barrel, after the International Energy Agency forecast
prices would
stay in the doldrums through 2020.
And most experts think the loonie will
stay low for the foreseeable future, due to depressed
oil prices and the country's deteriorating terms of trade.
Helms also said that
oil sands production levels could dip below one million per day before the end of 2016, if
prices stay below the $ 50 / bbl.
Many analysts also expect
oil prices to
stay in a narrower range over the next year, according to a June 2017 survey data from Bloomberg.
After crashing last year and then hitting several peaks and valleys,
oil prices have traded within a relatively narrow range, with WTI bouncing around a bit above and below the $ 60 per barrel mark, and Brent
staying near $ 64 per barrel.
If capital continues to flow to unconventional
oil companies and OPEC's resolve
stays firm,
oil prices could average near the present range for many years.
Early into this year, analysts and investors were way more optimistic about the
oil price recovery, but as global inventories continued to
stay high and OPEC lost its market charm with the cuts and compliance,
prices started dropping again, and WTI has traded mostly below US$ 50 — and frequently below US$ 45 — since early March.
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Oil prices are soaring on the OPEC deal news, and as of 10:50 AM (EST), WTI Crude was surging 7.21 percent at US$ 48.49, and Brent Crude was soaring by 7.65 percent at US$ 50.94,
staying above the US$ 50 mark for a couple of hours now.
That's making it harder to access capital as more drillers fight to
stay afloat amid persistent low
oil prices.
Oil was firmer most of the night (WTI to $ 68.66), until a tweet from Trump saying oil prices were «artificially high» along with news that Russia said it might not stay committed to the OPEC deal until the end knocked it lower ($ 67.6
Oil was firmer most of the night (WTI to $ 68.66), until a tweet from Trump saying
oil prices were «artificially high» along with news that Russia said it might not stay committed to the OPEC deal until the end knocked it lower ($ 67.6
oil prices were «artificially high» along with news that Russia said it might not
stay committed to the OPEC deal until the end knocked it lower ($ 67.62).
In a speech last week the Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada stated that
oil prices could
stay low for some time.
After the
oil price collapse and a huge corruption scandal, Petrobras has struggled to
stay afloat, let alone find the billions of investments needed to develop new deposits.
CPI inflation in year - ended terms should
stay in a narrow range around this profile over much of the forecast horizon, though volatility in
oil and food
prices over the past year will continue to have some effect on the year - ended figures in future quarters.
If
oil prices continue to
stay above the level assumed in the March 2011 Budget, and commodity
prices continue to rise then corporate profits will be higher and the revenue savings resulting from keeping the rate at 18 % could actually be higher than in the Liberal platform.
If this isn't the case and all the
oil being produced is needed for current consumption, then the
price of
oil for future delivery can drop to an unusually low level relative to the spot
price and
stay there.
Most see this as a Buffett bet that
oil will
stay cheap; I see it as an act of
oil price agnosticism that seeks to make money from energy regardless of economic conditions.
Conventional Wisdom # 1: Buffett's purchase of Phillips 66 is «proof» that he thinks the
price per barrel of
oil is going to
stay low for awhile, and this prediction indicates that investors should be in no rush to scoop up the deals among the other
oil majors.
And we have
stayed true to that vision, even as
oil prices went into freefall, we ramped up investments in infrastructure, as well as our social spending.»
Crude
oil prices in 2018 are projected to
stay around US$ 50.3 per barrel reflecting the higher - than - expected US shale production and production recoveries in Libya and Nigeria.
Based on the authors» calculations, the emissions differences resulting from vastly diverging
oil price paths could be on the order of 5 to 20 % of the total budget for
staying below the internationally agreed 2 °C target.
While we have no idea where
oil prices will settle in the short run, it remains our view that
oil prices can not
stay down at today's depressed
prices for too long, largely due to what we believe to be the relatively modest current level of excess capacity, our expectations of continued growth in demand over time, and the high marginal costs for finding and developing new sources of supply.
Most experts agree that
oil and gas
prices won't
stay this low forever and there is a good possibility that
prices will start rising again sooner than later.
The chief strategist for Canada at BlackRock Inc., the world's largest money manager, doesn't see a single attractive sector in the local stock market because
oil prices will
stay low.
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I would expect the
price of
oil to fall to
stay competitive with renewables which will forstall the rate of transition to low CO2 economies.
This year's Gulf of Mexico gusher seemed to pose potent political perils just a few months ago, but all along its significance was blunted by the reality that it did not affect
oil or gas
prices, which have
stayed relatively low.