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Supply Crunch Or Oil Glut: Investment Banks Can’t Agree

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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. UBS, for its part, expects a 4-million-bpd supply gap by 2020. shale output. million bpd. Meanwhile, short-cycle U.S.

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3 Years Of Painful Cuts Sets Oil Markets Up For Serious Supply Crunch

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Total global oil production could decline for the next several years in a row as scarce new sources of supply come online. According to data from Rystad Energy, overall global oil output will fall this year as natural depletion overwhelms all new sources of supply. Link to original article: [link].

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The 5 Countries That Could Push Oil Prices Up

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Oil prices appear to be stuck in the $50s per barrel, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t serious supply risks to the market. The most near-term supply risk comes from Iraq. Iran probably won’t pose a supply risk to the market, at least not this year. by Nick Cunningham for Oilprice.com. bank Citi said.

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The Next Oil Price Spike May Cripple The Industry

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In fact, we have been highlighting this threat to the energy industry in articles since 2015, for example here , here , here and here.) shale) oilfield development projects can easily require 5 to 8 years to be completed, all this means that the seeds for a supply crunch in the period 2020 – 2022 are currently being sowed.

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ZF adds sensors for ADAS to Aftermarket CV range – ET Auto

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Trucks have had to be equipped with automatic emergency braking assistants and lane departure warning systems since 2015. To do this, workshops also need access to the right spare parts, in particular to the sensors that supply the data for the driver assistance systems.

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Opinion: Saudis Planning For A War Of Attrition In Europe With Russia’s Oil Industry

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Oil supplies to Europe from Saudi Arabia are probably adversely affecting Urals prices,” the Russian central bank warned in a recent report. Russian oil production is expected to rise by a modest 70,000 barrels per day in 2015, averaging 10.75 OPEC predicts that non-OPEC supply will contract by just 0.13 The cartel sees U.S.

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Surprise Natural Gas Drawdown Signals Higher Prices Ahead

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The US electric power sector burned through a record amount of natural gas in recent weeks, a sign of the shifting power generation mix and also a signal that natural gas supplies could get tighter than many analysts had previously expected. Natural gas prices have traded below $3 per million Btu since the beginning of 2015.

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