Card Expiration Date 02/27/2024 TWIC Card issued 0324/2015 Card Expiration Date 03/24/2020 Began my merchant marine career sailing three
years on Crude Oil Super Tankers up to 2nd Engineer with Aeolos Management S.A. from 1990 to 1993.
Not exact matches
A lot has changed in
crude oil markets in North America in the last few
years, and these changes have had significant impacts
on the value of Western Canadian
crude production.
Fourth - quarter profits in Exxon's downstream sector, which is focused
on refining
crude oil into fuels like gasoline, also rose $ 323 million from a
year earlier.
The decreases are largely the result of the
oil glut and all - time lows for
crude prices — last
year, mining,
oil producers, and metal companies lost a combined $ 70 billion
on $ 1.3 trillion in revenue.
While the short position Chanos has in Alibaba has not worked out, Yusko was right
on one of his most bearish calls in recent
years: In early 2015 he predicted
oil would hit $ 30 when many thought
crude had already hit a bottom.
Meanwhile, the 2015 repeal of a 40 -
year - old ban
on crude oil exports - passed by a Republican - controlled Congress and signed by former President Barack Obama - has made strategic shipments overseas possible.
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.
Brent
crude, the international benchmark for
oil prices, rose to $ 70.37
on Monday, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate
crude reached $ 64.89
on Tuesday, both hitting more than three -
year highs.
HOUSTON, Jan 26 -
Oil prices settled higher
on Friday after hitting three -
year highs, with
crude also posting a weekly gain as a weaker U.S. dollar underpinned prices.
Oil prices continued their months - long decline Monday, with the price of
crude briefly falling below $ 50 per barrel for the first time in more than five
years earlier in the session
on account of global oversupply.
Oil prices collapsed
on Thursday to their lowest since late November as investor worries about the world's stubbornly persistent glut of
crude erased most of the gains that followed last
year's OPEC's output cut.
Before the recent string of production disruptions, which were caused by militant blockades
on pipelines carrying
crude from three fields to export terminals, Libya was pumping over 1 million barrels of
oil daily, eyeing 1.2 million bpd in output by the end of the
year.
Their premium over
crude on refined products such as gasoline, jet fuel and fuel
oil has averaged $ 24.60 / bbl over the last
year.
While the trade data had little impact
on U.S. financial markets, concerns about weakening global demand pushed Brent
crude oil prices to the lowest level in more than four
years, dragging down U.S. stocks.
Venezuela, an
oil - rich nation that went
on a spending spree, is struggling to meet $ 10 billion in debt obligations this
year, since 95 percent of export earnings depend
on crude.
Since then, adverse weather has limited prospects for crop supplies more than the government expected, and
crude oil is up 42 percent from a
year earlier, putting more pressure
on agricultural prices, Hart said.
On the demand side, use of
crude oil by Midwest refineries has been decreasing since the
year 2000, as shown in the figure below:
In 2009, that relationship began to reverse, and through 2011 and 2012, light
oil at Edmonton traded at massive discounts to similar
crude streams
on global markets — an average of $ 22.83 / bbl in fiscal
year 2012 - 2013, as shown in the blue wedge at the top of the graphic below.
US
crude oil production shattered a 47 -
year output record in November, and then retreated slightly in December, the Energy Information Administration said
on Wednesday, as
oil production from shale continued to upend global supply patterns.
On what the driving force behind the rally in crude oil prices has been recently, Pickens said, «Now you are approaching 2 million barrels a day year - over-year on increase in deman
On what the driving force behind the rally in
crude oil prices has been recently, Pickens said, «Now you are approaching 2 million barrels a day
year - over-
year on increase in deman
on increase in demand.
West Texas Intermediate
crude oil futures have surged to a one - month high
on expectations for the first decline in weekly U.S.
crude supplies in nearly three months as well as news that a key pipeline will begin service at the start of the
year, relieving the glut of
oil in the middle part of the...
Kashagan has huge amounts of
oil in store, and according to Financial Times, «Opec, the 14 - member cartel that controls more than a third of all
crude production,
on Monday said Kashagan's ramp up is one reason it now thinks supplies outside the group will actually grow next
year, despite two
years of low prices.»
In the case of
crude oil & condensates, it is expected that significant new capacity will come
on stream over the next two
years or so, and that this will initially outweigh declines in production from existing oilfields.
Except for a 20 - day slump in March when North American
crude was
on the wrong side of US$ 50 for the first time since last
year's OPEC supply cut decision,
oil prices had seemingly stabilized at a new level.
The yield
on the US 10 -
year Treasury note rose 10 basis points
on the week to 2.39 %, while the price of West Texas Intermediate
crude oil declined modestly to $ 44.50 a barrel from $ 45.40 a week ago.
The yield
on the US 10 -
year note rose six basis points to 2.30 %
on the week while the price of West Texas Intermediate
crude oil rose over $ 3 a barrel to $ 49.65.
Oil prices pushed lower for most of last week
on the news that U.S. commercial
crude inventories rose to the highest level for this time of the
year in at least 80
years, though prices reversed sharply
on Friday.
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Crude Oil February 2015 futures tested a six
year low of $ 45.19 pbbl
on 1/13/2015 at London ICE — lowest since April 2009.
On Wednesday, Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al - Falih said — after meeting with his Russian counterpart Alexander Novak — that OPEC and non-OPEC producers are committed to do «whatever it takes» to draw the global
crude oil inventories down to their five -
year average.
WTI
crude oil futures have traded lower in the prior three days following the pullback
on the fresh three -
year high of 64.80.
US 10 -
year Treasury note yields edged lower
on the week, to 2.19 % from 2.21 % a week earlier, while the price of West Texas Intermediate
Crude oil slipped to $ 47.20 a barrel from $ 48.20 last week.
US 10 -
year Treasury note yields fell six basis points to 2.14 %
on the week while West Texas Intermediate
crude oil dipped 80 cents a barrel to $ 46.75.
Crude oil prices have jumped to almost one -
year high's
on Monday in a shocking turn of events as Russian President Vladimir Putin disclosed that Russia was ready to join the cartel's efforts to reduce global
oil supply.
Gold,
on the other hand, has not reacted to the extent that
crude oil has to the ongoing crisis in the Middle East, although the precious metal, which is still considered a hedge against political instability, is up by more than 10 percent this
year.
The
crude oil ETF, which invests in futures contracts, trades near its 10 -
year low price of $ 10.48 as of Oct. 18, 2017, after peaking at more than $ 100
on Jan. 1, 2008.
(i) Unable to restore the power in a few states for more than 10 + days, since a tornado passed by it (ii) Unable to restore power for 7 + days in a snowy North Eastern state, since a hurricane passed by it (iii) Having no quality in science, math and technology; depending
on «imports» to uplift them (or depending
on Jesus to save them)(iv) Horrible crime in downtown, ghettos of any major city (v) Unemployment of 23 % (vi) Having a president who believes that the earth is 6000
years old (vii) Having a presidential candidate which believes in subjugating women (viii) Having more than 50 % of its 2012 graduates un / under - employed (ix) No public transport, resulting in hell
on earth even for a small rise in
crude -
oil prices (x) A crappy health care system (xi) A debt of 14Trillion, which corresponds to 50K per US resident.
«The Presidency has also failed to offer explanations
on the alleged involvement of its officials in various sneaky
oil subsidy deals as well as reported diversion of N1.1 trillion worth of
crude last
year to service APC interests.
Africa's largest economy, which relies
on crude sales for around 70 percent of government revenues, has been hammered by the more than 50 percent fall in
oil prices since June last
year.
The Minister who appeared before the Senate Committee
on Petroleum (downstream)
on Thursday, also said its a shame that Nigeria can not refine its
crude oil after 40
years of activities in the downstream.
He is also expected to speak
on the growth prospects of the country, vis - a-vis the current fiscal discipline going into an election and the revised fiscal projections for this
year owing to falling price of
crude oil on the international market.
«That while the practice had started before the present administration, it has continued under the watch of the new administration without abating, so much that in the
year alone, between January and August, a total of $ 344.42 million worth of
crude oil has been lifted by the NPDC without remittance and also not paying remittance and other taxes
on lifting,» Melaye said, pointing out that the said amount could build about 11 world - class teaching hospitals fully equipped.
The United States has become deeply reliant
on extreme extraction from Canada's tar sands, which this
year are expected to become this country's top source of imported
crude, surpassing our purchases from the vast
oil fields of Saudi Arabia.
Inman misses another huge irony here: Hubbert's forecast for the peak of global
crude oil was bang
on, but its full impact was deferred by the very production technique he had helped develop 60
years earlier.
The result has been a negative up market capture ratio of -109.7, meaning for every 1 % rise in inflation, the S&P GSCI
Crude Oil Excess Return actually fell by 1.1 %
on average in the past 10
years.
If WTI
crude oil is trading
on the spot market for $ 60 and the futures contract expiring two
years hence is trading at $ 50, an arbitrage opportunity could exist where one sells the $ 60 spot amount and goes long the $ 50 two -
year forward price.
According to GasBuddy, supply vs. demand trends going into the last part of the
year will be putting downward pressure
on crude oil prices — something they expect to continue well into next
year.
In this election
year, who will turn «saving energy» from a mere ad campaign to a real lifestyle change, who will step up to the plate to make radical changes from green washing media hype into revolutionary living beyond
crude oil and other accepted fossil burning «necessities» — and what will be the impact
on the future of the nation?
Santa Monica, CA — In this election
year, who will turn «saving energy» from a mere ad campaign to a real lifestyle change, who will step up to the plate to make radical changes from green washing media hype into revolutionary living beyond
crude oil and other accepted fossil burning «necessities» — and what will be the impact
on the future of the nation?
This is clear in works like Scalar (1971), with its planes of chipboard and paper stained with
crude oil, and in the carbon - paper drawings installed
on both the wall and the floor, a series
on view here in depth for the first time in forty
years.
Despite periodic price shocks and related energy crises, the United States is even more dependent
on crude oil and natural gas than it was almost 30
years ago.