Sentences with phrase «oil supplies cause»

Also, total electric demand will grow more rapidly as dwindling oil supplies cause a big shift toward electrically powered equipment of all kinds.

Not exact matches

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

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.

For oil prices, the phase change was caused mostly by the growth of a new source of supply from unconventional, expensive oil.

The oil price collapse of the 1980s was similar to the present price collapse because the primary cause was a new source of supply.

Crude oil prices are taking a step back on Monday as an increase in rig counts and a drop - in supply in Cushing, Okla., and a perceived drop in Geo - political risk premium are causing traders to take a step back.

Second, the U.S. will approach energy self - sufficiency as domestic energy demand ceases to grow, due in part to energy efficiency measures, and as new unconventional gas and oil projects cause domestic energy supply to surge.

While oil supply shocks and such can cause misleading upsurges in inflation, as happened in the summer of» 08, they don't make people spend more.

Among the factors that could cause actual results and outcomes to differ materially from those contained in such forward - looking statements are the following: macro-economic conditions (including fluctuations in housing prices, oil markets, jobless rates and other indicators), credit market changes and constraints, foreign currency fluctuation, the company's ability to manage its property portfolio, the impact of labor markets, failure to effectively manage costs or achieve anticipated expense and cost reductions, and disruptions in our supply chain or information technology systems.

The company temporarily shut down its operations in Prudhoe Bay, causing one of the largest disruptions in U.S. oil supply in recent history.

Exactly 50 years later, crude oil production peaked at 70 mb / d, and because it then made up the bulk of oil supply, this caused the temporary plateau of global oil production that helped pitch the global economy into recession.

The study made no distinction between those women whose vitamin A was supplied by whole foods such as butter, eggs, cheese, liver and cod liver oil, and those who ingested retinol added to margarine, white flour and extruded breakfast cereals — foods which contain many other factors that can cause birth defects.

The Illinois investigators suggested that if the turnover of vitamin E in adipose tissue was higher than the turnover of PUFAs, then the accumulation of PUFA in adipose tissue would eventually cause a vitamin E deficit, especially if that extra supply of vitamin E were at some point cut off: if, for example, someone were to switch from a vegetable oil back to an animal fat, leaving their adipose tissue stuffed to the brim with PUFA but suddenly taking in much less vitamin E in their daily diet.

Harvard School of Public Health researchers estimate that trans fat had been causing about 50,000 premature heart attack deaths annually, making partially hydrogenated oil one of the most harmful ingredients in the food supply (see discussion of salt).

Oil supply can be problematic, though, which causes noticeable ticking from the lifters.

The defective oil supply hoses were prone to degradation and eventual rupture, causing oil to rapidly leak and resulting in permanent engine damage.

So an increase in supply and a decrease in demand around the world have caused the price of oil to fall.

You might also cause a decline in their motor oil or specialty product line sales but they would simply supply the same product to AutoZone, O'Reilly's etc. to sell as a generic brand.

[UPDATE] After visiting various research buildings, he gave a pep talk on the energy revolution he said was vital if the United States and the world are to avoid conflicts over limited supplies of oil and eventual disruptive impacts from human - caused global warming.

My opinion is that, putting global warming and climate change aside, we have much greater evidence of the difficult future caused by land degradation, shrinking drinkable water supplies, collapsing fish stocks, and the troubles that will be caused to the economy and society as supply of oil and gas supplies shrink and energy becomes too expensive.

As we have seen in late 2014 (and 1986 and 2008), even small shifts in the supply / demand balance can cause large and quick moves in oil prices, moves that oil majors have no hope of reacting to given their current business models.

Wild swings are bad for the U.S. economy because it has become a major oil producer, but this production requires enormous effort (I think the current economic slump is caused in part by the huge slow down in economic activity in oil producing states as well as those supplying services and materials to the industry).

When we attacked Iraq, oil was at $ 29 a barrel and the great fear was that once we attacked it, the tremendous increase in supplies from Iraq would drive the price of oil down to even lower levels, causing the oil rich nations (and corporations) to lose billions of dollars.

Even if [geo - engineering] were able to stabilize climate change — which is doubtful... We still would be addicted to imported oil, still would be subsidizing terrorism with our gas dollars, still would suffer the cost and supply traumas that are inevitable with finite resources, still would send our children off to die in resource wars, still would pollute the air and cause respiratory problems for our children, and still would wipe out species, many of them beneficial to us, as we invade their habitat.

I think this comes not especially from Individualism per se, but from smart campaigning by oil and coal companies, which realised that by depicting climate change action as a left - wing, environmentalist, Egalitarian conspiracy, they could enlist anti-Egalitarians as unwitting foot soldiers in the cause of enduring profitability for the incumbent energy suppliers.

In palm oil, for example, smallholders represent production of about 40 % of the world's palm oil supply; for rubber, which is an often - forgotten cause of deforestation in SE Asia and parts of Africa, this number is over 85 %.

This comes at a cost: the environmental and food supply problems caused by corn cultivation make it an ineffective oil and climate solution.

The United States military must entirely get off oil by 2040 if it wants to reduce operational vulnerabilities, reduce costs, stop new security risks caused by climate change and avoid the coming peak oil supply

In fact, unfortunately, a lot of the quagmires and violence and policies that are going around the world probably have to continue for a while because the fact is, if oil got out of reach in terms of supplier price, that would cause America to struggle a lot in the near term.

But too much of a good thing caused a market distortion through the formation of an international cartel, and now artificially high prices are introducing very energy intensive oil into the supply chain.

It shouldn't surprise anyone that disputes over territory in the oil - rich Arctic — at a time when demand for the black gold is surging and supply is dwindling — should cause military strategists to worry.

The Applicant argued i) that the work on the pipeline was an immediate safety concern, ii) that any delay caused by the protesters would have serious impact on its economic concerns (the supply of oil to its customers), and iii) that the Applicant's property rights — the easement — were in a «privileged position», and that a trespass to property rights is virtually always remedied by an injunction.

Coverage for loss or damage caused to your property by the sudden and accidental overflow or escape of fuel oil from a tank or apparatus or supply pipes connected to a heating system in use

People can't agree on what causes stagflation but the two main theories are a supply shock (usually oil) or poorly made economic policy.