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But Alberta heavy oil is sometimes fetching as little as half the world price due to the competition from U.S. - produced shale oil and a shortage of pipelines to get the crude to the coasts and other refining markets.

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Despite higher oil prices and improved liquidity relative to the 2016 trough, foreign currency liquidity shortages remain, as evidenced by the still significant gap at around 100 % between the parallel market exchange rate and the official dollar exchange rate.

He will examine whether the current hype around fracking is justified, as well as how best to deal with the problem of peak oil and resource shortages.

Energy R&D grew following the oil shortages of the 1970s then fell back as national attention turned elsewhere.

During the Civil War, the Confederacy used peanut oil as an affordable lubricant for locomotives due to a shortage of whale oil.

And, of course, it fairly sips fuel as if there really is an oil shortage.

Wilkins said the oil spill off the Alaskan coast and other factors such as an earlier rise in Mideast crude - oil prices apparently combined to spark the rapid spring surge in prices, but they were not a reflection of an actual shortage.

As an example, a refiner is likely to pay a premium to have oil when there is a shortage so that its production of gas is not disrupted.

Right now, there is a shortage of refineries to refine the crude oil, and as a result, the price spread between crude oil and the refined product can be great.

We currently care for more than 40 African penguins in our Cold Water Quest gallery, but did you know their counterparts in the wild are facing harmful challenges such as oil spills, food shortages and habitat degradation?

The «Green Revolution» has produced a higher population level in many places that will now be extremely vulnerable to oil shortages and price inflation / instability as peak oil effects kick in.

Eliminate the oil shortage by burning up all the oil as quickly as possible, Voila!

This time I believe there is a much greater probability of long term changes, as this time the tightness was not due to politically generated shortages by OPEC, but by actual supply problems and there has been the growing realization that Peak Oil, however defined, is a geological inevitability.

Long before we reach an era of real shortage, markets will be subject to massive swings as speculators ride fears of shortage — as we saw recently with oil prices.

In what can only be termed an attempt to generate mass hysteria, the statement envisions a dark scenario not unlike those depicted by past doomsday fads such as the supposed population explosion and catastrophic oil shortages of the 1970s.

The government did respond, with a costly synfuels program that ultimately folded as oil markets turned from shortage to glut and the technology proved to be unaffordable.

If demand starts to fall, as I am expecting for a variety of reasons, it will push permanent oil shortages out and buys us more time to convert to renewables.

Second, relying on unconventional oil like tar sands and liquid coal to make up a supply shortage, as the oilmen say we must, would be climate catastrophe.

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Ahmed, via the Amazon link I provided in his biographical information, «argues that financial meltdown, dwindling oil reserves, terrorism and food shortages need to be considered as part of the same ailing system.

He claims that movement founder Rob Hopkins (see my interview with Rob Hopkins for more on his philosophy) talks «almost cheerfully about passing peak oil, widespread food shortages and the idea of globalization crashing suddenly» and he quotes Jennifer Gray, founder of the US arm of Transition, as telling the New York Times that she expects a «a big population die - off.»

I subscribe to the school of thought that if we don't demand large amounts of imported and unnecessary commodities, such as oil and coffee, that those agricultural regions can be better be used to provide essential food crops to their own region as well as neighboring regions currently undergoing serious food shortages.

Our local teams in Russia and other territories experiencing skills shortages have been collaborating to offer employers Russian engineers and geoscientists in oil and gas provinces such as the Middle East.

There is a shortage of skilled white collar engineering candidates in Colombia, despite local workers being highly skilled and trained as a result of the country's educational system and existing oil and gas sector.

The outlook for manufacturing employment is not as positive as the rest of the economy, affected by weak export markets, the continuing downturns in steel, oil and gas — and by skills shortages.

However, the Hays Oil & Gas Global Salary Guide and our local teams are predicting that skills shortages in operations and maintenance will continue to put pressures on salaries, as all the surplus talent will be taken out of the market.

The city is in the midst of a single - family housing shortage that promises only to get worse as oil and gas activity picks up for the season.