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MARCH 24, 2016

Oil prices have climbed by about 50 percent from their February lows, topping $40 per barrel. But the rally could be reaching its limits, at least temporarily, as persistent oversupply and the prospect of new shale production caps any potential price increase. by Nick Cunningham of Oilprice.com.

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JUNE 23, 2016

The impact of rising oil prices on North American light tight oil (LTO) production is said to be a “Catch 22”, the title of Joseph Heller’s popular 1961 novel set in WWII. Too many analysts continue to believe drilling and service has the same problem with rising oil prices. by David Yager for Oilprice.com.

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JANUARY 5, 2018

US regular retail gasoline prices averaged $2.41 per gallon in 2017, 27 cents/gal (13%) higher than in 2016, but two cents/gal less than in 2015, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). Higher crude oil prices in 2017 contributed to higher gasoline prices. gal at some point in the year.

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JANUARY 5, 2019

US regular retail gasoline prices averaged $2.72 per gallon (gal) in 2018, 30 cents/gal (13%) higher than in 2017 and 57 cents/gal higher than in 2016. In 5 of the 10 cities for which EIA collects weekly retail price data, gasoline prices exceeded $3.00/gal gal at least once in 2018.

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MAY 18, 2018

The first four months of this year also saw US petroleum demand average 750,000 barrels a day above the same period in 2017 despite higher prices. above April 2017. versus April 2017. versus April 2017. compared with April 2017. Strong global demand raised international oil prices by more than domestic ones.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2016

US Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Abigail Hopper released the final plan to guide future energy development for the Nation’s Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) for 2017-2022. The Proposed Final Program includes one sale in the northern portion of the Cook Inlet Planning Area.

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APRIL 15, 2017

This year, shale output forecasts combine with OPEC’s production cuts, geopolitical factors, and unexpected outages to further complicate supply/demand and oil price forecasts by Wall Street’s major investment banks. Beyond 2017, the impact of a collapse in longer-cycle conventional investment over 2014-16 begins to be felt.

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MAY 30, 2019

ExxonMobil expects to increase annual earnings potential by more than 140% and double potential annual cash flow from operations by 2025 from 2017 adjusted earnings, assuming a 2017 oil price of $60 per barrel adjusted for inflation and based on 2017 margins.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2019

This comes at a time when companies are facing a prolonged period of lower prices and when access to financing from capital markets has become difficult, the report says. The combination of closed capital markets and weak prices are pulling cash out of the system. —Raoul LeBlanc. —Raoul LeBlanc.

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MARCH 14, 2019

From 2017 to 2018, PEV sales doubled in North America, and sales in Europe and China increased 39% and 77%, respectively, according to a new report from Navigant Research. —Scott Shepard, senior research analyst with Navigant Research. Though PEV market growth has been considerable, challenges remain.

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APRIL 27, 2017

Crude oil production in the US Permian Basin is expected to increase to an estimated 2.4 Between January 2016 and March 2017, oil production in the Permian Basin increased in all but three months, even as domestic crude oil prices fell.

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AUGUST 23, 2011

billion in 2017, driven by the need to conform to environmental regulations. million in 2017 at a CAGR of 16.4%. million in 2017 at a CAGR of 10.8%. Governments across the world have been passing laws mandating reductions in fuel consumption and/or carbon emissions. million by revenue and 10.3 million tonnes by volume.

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MAY 24, 2022

Prices of distillate fuels change with the price of crude oil and with developments specific to distillate product markets. In 2022, both low global distillate fuel inventories and high crude oil prices have been contributing to higher global distillate prices.

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OCTOBER 6, 2017

Transcanada began the application process in 2013, when oil prices were substantially higher. TransCanada stopped capitalizing AFUDC on the project effective August 23, 2017, as disclosed on September 7, 2017. The company has also faced unrelenting environmental opposition to the projects.

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JUNE 1, 2016

Statoil says that global capex is set to fall for two years in a row, and is on track to fall for a third year in 2017 as more spending cuts are likely. That widens to more than a million barrels per day in both 2017 and 2018. That will prevent any short-term price spike even if depletion surpasses new production.

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JULY 30, 2019

Asia Pacific’s oil dependence continues to grow, ranking first in terms of deficit. Global oil demand grew by 1.4%, slightly lower than in 2017 (+1.6%) in a context of increasing oil prices. recorded in 2013-2017. Asia kept leading global refining capacity growth with 77% of the 1 Mb/d increase vs 2017.

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MARCH 8, 2017

OPEC’s coordinated effort to curtail global supply has so far managed to put a floor under oil prices, which have been sitting modestly above US$50 since the deal was announced at the end of November last year. Analysts and experts are now mostly predicting that oil prices will remain below US$60 this year.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2017

At the company’s Capital Markets Day 2017 in Johannesburg, South Africa, Sasol management said that the company will no longer pursue its proposed ) project in the US ( earlier post ) and furthermore will not invest in additional greenfields gas-to-liquids (GTL) projects.

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AUGUST 24, 2018

The forecast growth is driven by the ramping up of 2 new fields that started producing in 2017, the anticipation of 10 new fields starting up in 2018, and 6 new fields coming online in 2019. The recent production growth in the Bakken has been supported by the removal of pipeline capacity constraints that affected the region before 2017.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2017

The Oil War Is Only Just Getting Started. It’s been a month now that investors and analysts have been closely watching two main drivers for oil prices: how OPEC is doing with the supply-cut deal, and how US shale is responding to fifty-plus-dollar oil with rebounding drilling activity.

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JUNE 27, 2018

Well lateral lengths in the Permian have increased in average by more than 1,500 feet (ft) since 2016 to approximately 7,500 ft by the end of 2017, says GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2019

improvement in 2017 and marked the third year in a row the rate has declined. In China and India, primary intensity improved by almost 3%, a slight drop on 2017 levels. In China and India, primary intensity improved by almost 3%, a slight drop on 2017 levels. This was slower than the 1.7%

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JANUARY 31, 2017

If the proposed broad 20% border-adjustment tax were implemented and applied to the energy sector, the result would likely lead to a large increase in gasoline prices and a big premium in domestic oil prices vs. international, according to new analysis by Bloomberg Intelligence. Pump prices could rise an average $0.30

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APRIL 11, 2017

In its latest Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects that US crude oil production, which averaged an estimated 8.9 million b/d in 2017 and 9.9 For summer 2017, EIA forecasts motor gasoline consumption to average 9.5 million barrels per day (b/d) in 2016, will average 9.2

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JANUARY 31, 2018

The firm said that in the third quarter of 2017, the “average operating cost per barrel has broadly remained the same without any efficiency gains.” Not only that, but the cost of producing a barrel of oil, after factoring in the cost of spending and higher debt levels, has actually been rising quite a bit.

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APRIL 14, 2015

AEO2015 presents updated projections for US energy markets through 2040 based on six cases (Reference, Low and High Economic Growth, Low and High Oil Price, and High Oil and Gas Resource) that reflect updated scenarios for future crude oil prices. trillion cubic feet (Tcf) in the Low Oil Price case to 13.1

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JUNE 18, 2022

mb below the 2017-2021 average. Despite economic headwinds, steady demand for light sweet crude in a tight physical market is boosting marker grade prices as they are in the same crude quality family. Higher oil prices and a weaker economic outlook continue to temper IEA’s oil demand growth expectations.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Thus the kingdom’s energy policymakers find themselves revisiting a pressing question: Should Saudi Aramco invest in oil production capacity beyond 12.5 —Krane (2017). Overcapacity could also undercut oil prices and encourage a long-term equilibrium of lower prices based on higher market exposure to low Saudi production costs.

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MARCH 3, 2017

The oil majors reported poor earnings for the fourth quarter of last year, but many oil executives struck an optimistic tone about the road ahead. The collapse of oil prices forced the majors to slash spending on exploration, cut employees, defer projects, and look for efficiencies. But that is just for shale drilling.

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DECEMBER 22, 2016

These five have raised $430 million in total, and growth of these platforms should lead to even bigger numbers for the segment in 2017. Low oil hits drop-ins, substitutes. Spider silk catches fancy. About 80% of VC investment in 2016 was on improved products, as opposed to only 46% from 2010 to 2015.

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APRIL 27, 2017

This sharp slowdown in activity in the conventional oil sector was the result of reduced investment spending driven by low oil prices. mb/d a year in the next five years, the IEA has repeatedly warned that an extended period of sharply lower oil investment could lead to a tightening in supplies.

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JULY 21, 2015

The agreement runs through 2024, with first delivery expected in 2017. Red Rock Biofuels LLC will produce approximately three million gallons of low-carbon, renewable jet fuel per year for FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corporation. Earlier post.). —Terry Kulesa, co-founder and CEO of Red Rock.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2015

One casualty of the oil price downturn could be the megaproject. For years, as conventional oil reserves depleted and became increasingly hard to find, oil companies ventured into far-flung locales to find new sources of production. The collapse of oil prices, however, could kill off the megaproject.

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DECEMBER 13, 2017

In October 2017, Gevo announced a partnership with Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) on a project to improve the energy density of Gevo ATJ to meet product specifications for tactical fuels for specialized military applications such as RJ-4, RJ-6 and JP-10, which are currently purchased by the US Department of Defense (DoD).

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FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Ultimately, widespread commercialization will depend on whether these ventures can reach price. Key trends identified in the report include: Oil prices are expected to climb over the next decade, driving increased interest in. parity with petroleum-based fuels. — Biofuels Markets and Technologies. dominance and reach 49.5

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Source: EIA and Argus Media group, China Methanol to Energy Study , January 2017. MTG units involve high capital costs and are only cost-competitive when oil prices are high. Lower oil prices since late 2014 have reduced China’s MTG plant operating rates and have created uncertainty for investment in new MTG plants.

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MAY 24, 2012

Gt no later than 2017, i.e. just 1.0 This development has arisen from lower oil use in the transport sector (linked to efficiency improvements, higher oil prices and the economic downturn which has cut vehicle miles travelled) and a substantial shift from coal to gas in the power sector. Gt above 2011 levels.

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