Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2015

The EIA even predicts that OPEC’s net oil exports (excluding Iran) could fall to as low as $380 billion in 2015. With the huge reduction in its revenues and growing discomfort among its members such as Venezuela, Libya and Nigeria over its current production levels, is OPEC really getting weaker? Nigeria’s dilemma.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2015

CME Brent oil futures project continuity: as of August 18, 2015, CME Brent futures projected the price remaining below $60/bbl until June 2017. Interestingly, also, the Saudis increased their share of OPEC average daily output in the first half of 2015 over 2014 average daily volume—and their share of average daily global output.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Energy is the foundation of Russia, its economy, its government, and its political system. According to the IMF’s 2015 Article IV Consultation-Press Release and Staff Report , published August 3, oil and natural gas exports constituted 65 percent of exports, 52 percent of the Federal government budget, and 14.5 billion respectively).

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Russia Saudi Arabia Iran Iraq 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2018

China’s central bank has also taken the opportunity to loosen its grip over the yuan, which will save it from having to blow huge sums of reserves to keep the currency fixed, as it did during the summer of 2015. The oil supply outages in Venezuela, Libya and Iran could yet drive oil prices much higher. Of course, the U.S.

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