Energy stocks seem like an easy way to play
the recovery in crude prices, but the disappointing performance of most energy funds tells a different story.
Not exact matches
The deal, when announced last autumn, was predicated on a
recovery in the oil
price to $ 60 per barrel by 2019, an increase that now seems less likely with a glut of
crude still circling the globe and keeping
prices below $ 50.
Last year, funds that bet on an oil -
price recovery were hit as
crude in June fell to $ 42.05, the low for the year.
BP beat analyst expectations on Tuesday, as higher
crude prices and rising production levels helped to fast - track a
recovery in one of Europe's largest oil and gas companies.
Higher oil
prices and China's state firms increasing spending are expected to lead to
crude production
recovery in the second half, according to the analyst.
The company attributed the decline to weak global economic
recovery, slow growth
in China and low international
crude oil
prices.
Crude oil
prices in 2018 are projected to stay around US$ 50.3 per barrel reflecting the higher - than - expected US shale production and production
recoveries in Libya and Nigeria.
He told Council that the PMS open market
price is continuously shaped by
crude oil
price volatility
in the international market with the attendant cost under -
recoveries due to differential between actual supply and distribution.
It is possible that some of the captured CO2 could be used for enhanced oil
recovery, he said, since CO2 grabs a
price in that process because of its value
in pumping out more
crude.