Sentences with phrase «oil spill]»

Although the oil price and the dollar have moved in tandem for the last few weeks, the two generally tend to trade in the opposite direction, as a stronger dollar encourages non-U.S. investors to sell oil and crude - importing countries to curtail their purchases.

Eating a diet rich in olives, olive oil, nuts and seeds, dark chocolate, and avocado has kept my belly lean and my energy up for years!

• Blue Water Energy, an Atlanta - based private equity firm, raised $ 1.1 billion for a fund to invest in oil and gas.

LONDON, April 25 - Discipline has become the oil industrys favourite word as it emerges from the deepest and longest downturn in a generation.

The stock has soared more than eight per cent over the past week on speculation the company could buy the retail operations of oil and gas giant Hess, which owns about 1,350 gasoline stations in 16 East Coast states.

And here is an insightful read by energy expert, Marin Katusa: Will Iran's Runaway Inflation Spark an Oil Bull Market?

«That rise in U.S. production and further rises in U.S. production will put a cap or a damper eventually on higher oil prices,» Behravesh said.

But when oil companies cut down production in response to depressed prices, the money stops flowing along with the crude.

Data from hedge fund analytical tool Kensho that examined patterns coinciding with U.S. military actions in the Middle East dating back to the 1990s show that in the day, week and month after a Mideast strike, oil has underperformed other assets, and the energy sector has been one of the worst in the S&P 500.

Two scientific studies into the impact of the Montara oil spill have been released and have found no oil reached Australia's mainland or the Indonesia coast.

SINGAPORE, April 24 - International oil prices hit their highest levels since late 2014 on Tuesday, pushed up by expectations of renewed U.S. sanctions against Iran and as OPEC continues withholding supplies amid strong demand.

Environmental Defense Fund president Fred Krupp said the agreement is important because methane is responsible for about a quarter of today's warming, and the U.S. and Canada are the world's second - and fourth - largest emitters of oil and gas methane respectively.

In 2008, Jeff Rubin, then an economist with CIBC, predicted the price of oil would hit $ 225 a barrel in four years.

Not unexpectedly, the oil and gas industry has countered our findings with pointed criticism.

Oil prices near $ 70 shouldn't put the brakes on economic growth, however.

The transport bottlenecks have increased the discount buyers take for Canadian oil over U.S. light crude and Cenovus said its differentials averaged $ 24.28 per barrel in the first quarter, a 67 percent jump when compared with last year.

Nearly as surprising was the willingness of Russia and private oil companies in North America to carry on at prices that were understood to be well below their break - even points.

What Oliver should have done was backtrack on Harper's pledge to balance the budget, recognizing that the collapse of oil prices would cause private investment to disintegrate.

Last year's budget forecasted oil at $ 67 per barrel (WTI) for 2016.

Yet it's not only oil that has led to booms in these two Mideast stock markets.

Higher prices encourage U.S. oil companies to crank up output.

Cash flow from operations — a key metric of financial health in the oil industry — came in at $ 7.4 billion for the quarter, matching the year - earlier period.

Earnings from Exxon's upstream segment, which explores for and produces oil and natural gas, rose $ 9 billion from a year earlier.

The Moho Nord oil exploration and production project offshore Angola is a large - scale deepwater development.

Brent crude oil futures were up 31 cents at $ 73.44 a barrel by 0900 GMT, after falling nearly 3 percent on Tuesday to its lowest in two weeks.

«This will be the most expensive driving season since 2014,» said Tom Kloza, global head of energy analysis for Oil Price Information Service.

More important, this prompted speculation that China National Offshore Oil Corp.'s outstanding $ 15.1 - billion offer for Nexen might receive similar treatment.

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.

«What would Standard Oil want from me, a New Dealer, the son of a Populist?»

Yet even now, despite the recent run - up in oil prices, this narrative continues to carry considerable currency.

The financial crisis slammed oil prices, but you can see from the graph that there was also a major break in the pricing relationships which had held so tightly up to then.

Now TransCanada is staking a good deal of its future in an oil pipeline that could end up being rejected because of political considerations.

Meanwhile, profits were up 50 percent at $ 3.5 billion in Exxon's business exploring for and producing oil and natural gas

Iran's oil minister Bijan Zanganehsaid that if crude oil prices continued to rise, there would be no need to extend a pact between the Organization of...

Costs back then were still low by today's standards, but the integrated mining operations were seeing operating costs of $ 12 - 18 / bbl and new projects needed $ U.S. oil prices of $ 20 - $ 30 to generate reasonable rates of return.

NEW YORK, April 24 - Oil prices were little changed on Tuesday after Brent hit its highest level since November 2014, supported by strong demand, OPEC - led production cuts, and the prospect of renewed U.S. sanctions on Iran.

OPEC's largest producer and de facto leader — Saudi Arabia — is the most closely watched oil nation for hints about an unofficial oil price target, and speculation has been ripe since the start of the deal in January 2017 as to what price the Kingdom is aiming for.

Oil prices, a major cost for airlines, are «stable» for now, Tan said.

Fresh sanctions on Iran could result in a reduction of the country's oil exports, which would strain global supplies even more, especially given the discipline of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and their partners in sticking to an agreement to limit output.

Back in 2005 the China Offshore Oil Company, or CNOOC, got burned when U.S. lawmakers made noises to block its US$ 18.5 - billion takeover of integrated Unocal Oil Company, eventually bought by Chevron.

That's up from about $ 2.39 per gallon a year ago, according to Oil Price Information Service.

On Thursday, it announced it would reduce its production guidance for the year by about 10,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day to an average of about 315,000 boe / d, with exit production of about 335,000 boe / d, to account for lower heavy oil production, an advanced schedule for maintenance at its Tucker oilsands project and a slower ramp up in liquids - rich natural gas output from its BD Project in Indonesia.

«For engineers who are already working, we've created an Oil and Gas MOOC, in partnership with IFP énergies Nouvelles (IFPEN), to enable them to update their knowledge of the oil industry by taking online courses for four weeks.»

WESTERN Australia's «energy gold rush» is overshadowing minerals exploration as investment in searching for oil and gas reaches a figure more than double that spent looking for minerals.

Unfortunately, the two firms have yet to do a simulation of how the situation with Keystone XL and Northern Gateway will turn out, though Deloitte's oil and gas consulting lead, Geoffrey Cann, agreed game theory «is tailor - made for it.»

A wave of global economic growth has driven up demand for oil.

The budget implies that oil prices will rise around 40 % in the next two years.

With operating net profit — or profits before taxes and interest — up by 30 percent to 978 million euros, Eni CEO Claudio Descalzi said that Eni's results were «over and above the rising price of oil.»

Coconut oil While «The Digest Diet» recommends keeping saturated fat intake to under 10 % of total calories, one source sits at the top of the «should enjoy» weight - loss foods list: coconut oil.

Activists say these trains pose a risk to the millions who live along the tracks where crude oil trains travel.