After a detailed exploration of the reasons for the current increase
in oil production capacity, with much more coming after 2020, Maugeri warns that the oil industry will need to work hard to limit environmental risks from greatly expanded drilling for oil (and natural gas) in shale deposits, a vast resource that has been made tappable by hydraulic fracturing, known also as fracking.
Nasser said he planned to direct investment into refining and petrochemicals, growing the so - called «downstream» side of the business, rather than increase the company's current
oil production capacity of 12 million barrels a day.
OPEC «would seriously have to reconsider committing scarce financial resources to increasing and
maintaining oil production capacity in order to meet the future increase projected in world oil demand».
According to the US Energy Administration,
spare oil production capacity is only about 1 % of current demand, leaving very little room to compensate for supply interruptions or spikes in demand.
«By 2012,
surplus oil production capacity could entirely disappear, and as early as 2015, the shortfall in output could reach nearly 10 million barrels per day,» says the report, which has a foreword by a senior commander, General James N Mattis.
«Its willingness and ability to make timely investments
in oil production capacity will be a key determinant of future oil price trends.»
The country wants to double
its oil production capacity by 2020 to around 7 million barrels a day.
A USD$ 1.2 billion oil financing agreement with NNPC and Chevron where UBA providedfunding for Chevron and NNPC to develop 36 new oil wells that will significantly expand Nigeria's oil production capacity
Oil production capacity is surging in the United States and several other countries at such a fast pace that global oil output capacity is likely to grow by nearly 20 percent by 2020, which could prompt a plunge or even a collapse in oil prices, according to a new study by a researcher at the Harvard Kennedy School.
My bedtime reading tonight is «Oil: The Next Revolution — The unprecedented upsurge of
oil production capacity and what it means for the world.»
Oil production capacity is surging in the United States and several other countries at such a fast pace that global oil output capacity could grow by nearly 20 % from the current 93... Read more →
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