The suspect, Afise Inusah, a palm
oil producer at Akyem Etwereso in the Akyemmansa District in the Eastern Region is said to have fed the two children in her chamber pot and forced them to sleep at night in a hen coop together with the live birds.
The suspect, Afise Inusah, a palm
oil producer at Akyem Etwereso in the Akyemmansa District in the Eastern Region is said to have fed the two children in her chamber pot and forced them to sleep at night in...
Not exact matches
The quest to regain the top
producer spot in one of the most - prolific U.S. shale basins had eluded Hamm's Continental since
at least 2014, when Whiting bought smaller rival Kodiak
Oil and Gas.
Cenovus, one of the biggest of Canada's
oil sands
producers, said in March that it was operating
at lower capacity due to the maxing out of pipelines and other routes through which it sends heavy
oil south to U.S. markets.
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.
The Permian continues to boom, and even in case of takeaway capacity constraints — which have led to around $ 11 a barrel discount of Midland, Texas,
oil to Brent — Permian
producers would pump
at profit if Brent were to rise (and stay)
at $ 80, Bloomberg's Denning argues.
The teaser for the panel on energy markets that I am speaking on
at the Milken Institute Global Conference, highlights relentless U.S. production offsetting OPEC reductions, renewables disrupting traditional energy markets, and the geopolitical implications of U.S. production growth displacing Russia as the world's largest
oil producer.
Saudi Arabia and Russia, along with Qatar and Venezuela, said on February 16 that they would freeze
oil production
at January levels, provided other big
producers agreed to join them.
According to RBC Capital Markets, OPEC's
producers need
oil even higher —
at an average of $ 88 a barrel — to balance their public spending this year, Bloomberg Gadfly's Liam Denning writes.
Oil futures are currently trading at $ 74.80 for Brent crude and around $ 68.69 for West Texas Intermediate (WTI), having been buoyed by OPEC and non-OPEC producers, including Russia, curbing oil producti
Oil futures are currently trading
at $ 74.80 for Brent crude and around $ 68.69 for West Texas Intermediate (WTI), having been buoyed by OPEC and non-OPEC
producers, including Russia, curbing
oil producti
oil production.
Woodside Petroleum Ltd subsidiary
ATS Inc has made good on a promise not to extend its $ 1.16 billion hostile takeover bid for US - based
oil producer Energy Partners Ltd, after failing to reach the minimum acquisition level of 50 per cent.
Canada's energy
producers are hurting as the North American
oil benchmark dropped to a fresh six - year low Monday, closing
at US$ 38.24 a barrel.
However, the current deal between allied major
oil producers could soon be
at risk amid heightened tensions over an escalating proxy war between two of OPEC's top three crude
producers, Shah said.
Western Australia's only onshore
oil producer has suspended production after being hit by the low
oil price and the high cost of trucking its output to Wyndham rather than the much closer port
at Broome.
Oil investor hopes were raised
at the start of the year by a deal to cut production between members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and some non-OPEC
producers.
Frankel urged a form of managed competition, in which
oil producers would recognise their common interests and coordinate their policies
at strategic level while remaining competitors
at tactical level.
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 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.
Speaking
at the Sohn Investment Conference in New York, the closely - watched DoubleLine Capital LP chief executive officer recommended a trade of shorting, or betting against, Facebook while betting on gains in an exchange - traded fund that tracks
oil and gas explorers and
producers who could benefit from rising inflation.
The
producers will review the deal
at the next OPEC meeting in June to assess how it is impacting
oil prices and global global crude stockpiles.
U.S. shale
producers are churning out crude
oil at such a relentless pace that the country will soon become the most influential player in the energy market, according to an analyst.
CNBC's Jackie DeAngelis takes a look
at the energy markets as the Syrian chemical attack and a missile strike on Saudi Arabia shake Middle Eastern
oil producers.
Even with
oil prices still down by half from the peak, improvements in well development productivity have enabled US
producers to make money
at much lower
oil prices.
The integrated
producers — companies that both produce and refine
oil — are trading
at 6.4 times cash flow, down from the eight times they were trading
at in June.
At the Sohn Investment Conference in New York this week, billionaire investor Jeffrey Gundlach said investors should consider a trade that includes betting on gains in an exchange - traded fund that tracks
oil and gas explorers and
producers who could benefit from rising inflation.
OPEC is working on a «very long - term» deal to try to extend its alliance with other
oil producers, Secretary General Mohammad Barkindo said
at an energy conference in Baghdad, Iraq on Wednesday.
And unlike with the
oil industry, no «fracking» method has been invented yet to extract gold from hard - to - reach areas, though Barrick — the world's largest
producer by output — has been experimenting with sensors
at its Cortez project in Nevada.What Pierre is talking about, of course, is the idea of «peak gold.»
At Exxon, weak refining results were coupled with lower
oil production, fueling concern about Chief Executive Officer Darren Woods» turnaround plan for the world's largest publicly traded
oil producer.
On the energy front, major
oil producers sounded more confident about rebalancing in the markets
at a Friday meeting of OPEC and non-OPEC
producers.
Concho Resources, a US
oil and gas
producer, agreed to buy rival RSP Permian for $ 9.5 billion including debt and CME Group, the Chicago exchange, agreed to buy Nex Group, in a deal that valued the UK group
at nearly # 3.9 billion.
Scoring a major asset
at a time when
oil prices had hit major lows has transformed Perth - based junior Kalrez Energy NL from a gold explorer to an
oil and gas
producer.
But the playing field has changed significantly over the past two years, and U.S.
producers are indeed able to make money
at far lower
oil prices than
at the peak.
Analysts
at Canaccord Genuity said Monday the project's $ 5.3 - bilion northern leg «is no longer a necessity» for Canadian
oil sands
producers, thanks to the sudden rise of crude - carrying unit trains and rival pipeline schemes proposed by Enbridge Inc..
The good news is that the downturn has led to huge technological and process improvements in the
oil patch, forcing domestic
producers to either find ways to make money
at $ 40
oil or go out of business.
For the past two years, OPEC's pump -
at - will policies have flooded the market with cheap supply, causing economic pain for
producers with higher cash costs, including those involved in fracking, the Canadian
oil sands and deepwater drilling.
Not exactly a welcome development as global
oil producers continue to pump
at record rates despite the downdraft in prices.
Funding its ballooning deficit, which can't be plugged with asset sales and debt issuance alone, and improving its economic situation are partly why Saudi Arabia, the largest
producer in the OPEC
oil cartel, disagreed to any cut in production
at the December OPEC meeting, and more recently has been discounting the price of
oil to its customers.
If the Bank of Canada had kept the exchange rate fixed
at - say - 0.85 USD, the prices that Canadian
oil producers receive would be about 15 % higher than what they get now.
Lending to
oil and natural gas
producers poses a bigger threat to U.S. banks than most other industrial sectors, said Bill Haas, deputy comptroller for midsize bank supervision
at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, which regulates 1,620 national banks and thrifts.
At present, almost all Canadian exports of
oil and gas go to the U.S., which is becoming once again a major
producer in its own right, and a potential competitor for offshore markets.
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At the same time, both Iran and Iraq must make sacrifices for Saudi Arabia to accept the deal, Iran takes opposite view, insisting Saudi should cut more, as it boosted output most in recent years:
oil producers that raised output in past years while Iran was subject to sanctions «will have to shoulder a bigger share of the output drop and accept more responsibility»:
oil minister Bijan Zanganeh
Canada is the world's fourth - largest
oil producer and
at the end of 2015 the proven reserves of oilsands were 165.4 billion barrels.
We've been discussing the tug of war between Eastern and Western
oil producers for over a year now, but today they will finally sit
at the same table.
Demand for OPEC crude in 2016 is estimated to stand
at 31.7 mb / d, some 1.7 million barrels a day over last year, the
oil producer group said.
Oil - related revenue has dwindled since 2015 as a period of low prices reduced interest from
producers and consumers in financial instruments that offer protection against price volatility, said Amrit Shahani, research director
at Coalition.
Suncor Energy (TSX: SU), Canada's largest
oil and gas
producer by market capitalization, said Wednesday an eight - week maintenance project
at its Syncrude facility will begin Thursday almost three weeks ahead than originally planned.
However, since Canada's population is concentrated in markets that already fetch their
oil at higher world prices, even if western Canadian
producers were to access better prices for their products, that would be unlikely to have a meaningful effect on gasoline prices or other segments of our economy.
As Nobel economist (and one of my dissertation advisors
at Stanford) Joe Stiglitz noted on Friday, a good part of the reason for rising
oil prices is because the
producers are already awash in U.S. assets, and to supply significantly more
oil will just force them to accumulate more low - return assets.
If you believe that, in times of crisis, a West - East pipeline will provide eastern refiners
at oil below the world price, you are assuming that western
producers will sell
oil below world prices in times of crisis.
But as the glut diminishes and bullish sentiment increases alongside
oil prices, U.S. shale
producers are rushing to hedge again
at the WTI prices above $ 50 to lock in future production.