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NOVEMBER 12, 2012

The global energy map is changing significantly, according to the 2012 edition of the Internal Energy Agency’s (IEA) World Energy Outlook ( WEO-2012 ). — WEO-2012. A surge in unconventional and deepwater oil boosts non-OPEC supply over the current decade, but the world relies increasingly on OPEC after 2020.

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AUGUST 6, 2015

A flood of bearish news has pushed down oil prices to their lowest levels in months, with WTI nearing $45 per barrel and Brent flirting with sub-$50 territory. With a bear market back, there is pessimism throughout the oil markets. However, the WTI/Brent spread has shrunk more dramatically since the collapse in oil prices.

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MARCH 13, 2016

Argentina offers one of the few places on earth where oil companies are not suffering from the full force of the collapse in prices. Argentina regulates oil prices, a policy originally intended to insulate the public from the whims of the market, protecting people from triple-digit crude prices.

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OCTOBER 1, 2012

Upstream spending is back to pre-2008 levels as producers, excluding NOCs (national oil companies) and OPEC organizations, are expected to spend close to $270 billion in 2013. The blossoming tight oil sector in the US has reignited talks of energy independence, but growing investment in offshore drilling is opening foreign reserves.

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JUNE 5, 2012

The break-even crude oil price for a delivered biomass cost of $94/metric ton when hydrogen is derived from coal, natural gas or nuclear energy ranges from $103 to $116/bbl for no carbon tax and even lower ($99–$111/bbl) for the carbon tax scenarios. Tyner (2012) Economic analysis of novel synergistic biofuel (H 2 Bioil) processes.

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DECEMBER 16, 2013

quadrillion Btu in 2012 to 12.1 from 2012 to 2040, compared to 1.2% The rising fuel economy of LDVs more than offsets the modest growth in VMT, resulting in a 25% decline in LDV energy consumption decline between 2012 and 2040 in the AEO2014 Reference case. l/100 km) in 2012 to 37.2 l/100 km) in 2012 to 37.2

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APRIL 13, 2012

The ratio increased because of both increasing crude oil prices and decreasing natural gas prices. The spot price for Brent crude oil has increased 19% in the last six months, from $103.90 per barrel on 30 March 2012. Source: EIA. Click to enlarge. per barrel on 3 October 2011 to $123.81

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JUNE 27, 2012

World oil production capacity to 2020 (crude oil and NGLs, excluding biofuels). Source: Maugeri 2012. Oil production capacity is surging in the United States and several other countries at such a fast pace that global oil output capacity could grow by nearly 20% from the current 93 million barrels per day to 110.6

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JULY 17, 2012

Knittel/Smith results for implied gasoline price effects from elimination of ethanol for 2010 using Du/Hayes model and pooled-sample estimates. Source: Knittel and Smith (2012). Again, using the same empirical models in Du and Hayes (2011) and Du and Hayes (2012), we show that ethanol production “causes” our children to age.

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JANUARY 1, 2011

DB has lowered its advanced lithium-ion battery cost projection by about 30% for 2012. ” Their analysis is in the context of the “ surprising [oil] demand strength of 2010 “; 2010 saw absolute incremental demand at around 2.2mb/d of growth—the second highest in 30 years, despite oil prices in the $90/bbl region.

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APRIL 10, 2009

A new study by the French institute Enerdata, commissioned by the European Federation for Transport & Environment (T&E), suggests that the European CO 2 standards for new vehicles due to come into effect in 2012 will lead not only to a European savings on oil (mainly via lower oil import volumes) but also to slightly lower global oil prices.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

The plant design is expected to be complete by the end of 2012, with site specific engineering and a decision to begin fabrication occurring in the first half of 2013. Calumet intends to use the FT products as feedstock for the production of ultra-high quality speciality products.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2014

He says a deal is more likely than not due to the enormous financial pressure Iran is experiencing because of falling oil prices. Iran’s oil exports have more than halved from their pre-sanctions level of about 2.5 percent in 2012, the year that tough western sanctions took effect. And sanctions have taken their toll.

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JANUARY 6, 2022

Spot LNG prices in Asia spiked to nearly $30 per million British thermal units (MMBtu) for a few weeks in January 2021 during extreme cold weather and transportation challenges before settling back to normal ranges in the first half of the year. Outside of the United States, utilization rates suffered.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2019

The latter is partly caused by “global warming constraints” and lower oil prices in general. The first casualties are falling in Europe, mainly the UK, where 16 companies went bankrupt in 2018, in comparison to zero in 2012. British accountancy firm Moore Stephenson stated that lower prices were the main cause.

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JUNE 13, 2012

seen in 2010, according to the newly released BP Statistical Review of World Energy, 2012. The “Arab Spring” affected oil and gas supplies—most notably the complete, albeit temporary, loss of Libyan supply—while the tragic Fukushima accident in Japan had knock-on effects for nuclear and other energy sources around the world.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

If You’re a Free Range Oil Producer. Despite low oil prices, Saudi Arabia is maintaining its investment in its oil industry. as the drop in oil prices over the last year has put a strain on the nation’s finances.". for 2015 (based on actual average monthly prices through August of 53.97

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APRIL 1, 2015

The question today is just how much Argentina is willing to change and how this plays into a low oil price environment that is already negatively impacting investment elsewhere. Investor confidence in Argentina has been damaged by heavy-handed nationalist politics, including the nationalization of oil company YPF in 2012.

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AUGUST 9, 2016

Expanding into an area outside of the oil supermajors’ expertise is risky—batteries are a hard business to win even for industry veterans—but action is key as transportation and the grid increasingly march toward more electrification, Lux suggests.

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JANUARY 16, 2012

Industry appetite for oil-rich resource plays, particularly the North Dakota Bakken shale, Texas Eagle Ford shale and Ohio Utica shale, drove deal activity in the unconventional sector to a record $62 billion. We expect continued strong activity in oil and liquids-rich resource plays in 2012. —Ronyld W. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Even with CCS, the liquid product costs are comparable to recent crude oil prices. For a liquids-only configuration, CCS is a cheaper option when the CO 2 price exceeds $12/tonne. GHGT-11 will be held 18- November 2012 in Kyoto. The conference series rotates between, North America, Europe and Asia.

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JUNE 20, 2012

—Bartis 2012. A consensus is developing that global oil production is less likely to come to a sharp peak and more likely to hit a plateau that might continue for some decades and then slowly decline. —Bartis 2012. The study highlights the growing importance of the Caspian region for global oil supplies.

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JULY 25, 2013

The Brent crude oil spot price averaged $112 per barrel in 2012, and EIA’s July 2013 Short-Term Energy Outlook projects averages of $105 per barrel in 2013 and $100 per barrel in 2014. Liquid fuels.

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MAY 15, 2012

Performance in the study is measured by such metrics as: (1) required selling price of the fuel; (2) crude oil price when the process will become economically viable; (3) the Well-to-Wheels (WTW) life cycle GHG emissions profile of the diesel fuel; and (4) the water usage associated with the facility. NETL/DOE-2012/1542.

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APRIL 11, 2017

For the 2017 April-through-September summer driving season, EIA forecasts US regular gasoline retail prices will average $2.46/gallon The higher forecast gasoline price is primarily the result of higher forecast crude oil prices. For all of 2017, the forecast average price for regular gasoline is $2.39/gal,

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FEBRUARY 13, 2011

The study is not a forecast sales of electric vehicles; rather, it estimates electric vehicle deployment by state, using other forecasts of total electric vehicle sales in the US to generate a reasonable approximation of what electric vehicle sales might look like for the period 2012 to 2015.

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AUGUST 9, 2016

Bcf/d higher than the previous high reached in July 2012. This comes on the heels of a massive buildup in inventories last winter, and heading into summer the expectation was that huge storage levels would keep natural gas prices at rock bottom levels , perhaps for years. Average consumption of 36.1 Bcf/d in July of this year was 2.7

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Back in the good old days—2012 or so—a single stage on a shale job was being priced at $125,000 or more. And markets won’t wait to adjust pricing until we hit a balance. There will be some foreshadowing in oil prices here. The money being made was giddy. It just requires some patience.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Finally, it is difficult to imagine the Venezuelan market tumbling any lower than it already has; however, as oil prices plummet, the government’s access to foreign currency will continue to be limited, thus impairing vehicle production. million) below the market level recorded in 2012. Europe; Russia influences.

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MARCH 2, 2015

Winterkorn also emphasized that Volkswagen remains committed to its environmental goals, and noted that the present low level of oil prices would not change that. Oil will not be as cheap as it is at the moment for ever. The CO 2 limits apply irrespective of fuel prices.

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JANUARY 23, 2012

Electricity-related emissions are tempered by appliance and lighting efficiency standards, State renewable portfolio standard requirements, competitive natural gas prices that dampen coal use by electric generators, and implementation of the Cross-state Air Pollution Rule.

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MARCH 2, 2013

The US Department of State (DOS) has released its Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) in response to TransCanada’s May 2012 application for the Keystone XL pipeline that would run from Canada’s oils sands in Alberta to Nebraska. TransCanada submitted a new application for the Keystone XL Project on 4 May 2012.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2017

We have the environmental incentives to produce fuels and chemicals from renewable resources, but right now, they aren’t enough to compete with low oil prices. Alternative fuels must make economic sense, the researchers stress, for biofuels to make a dent in the petroleum-driven market. That’s the problem.

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MAY 22, 2013

The Q1 2013 index (top) shows that the 7 top automotive nations have seen their competitive positions shift since 2012 (bottom). None of the subsidy programs that ended at the end of 2012 were renewed. Extracting oil by fracking could stabilize the oil price over the next few years. Source: Roland Berger.

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DECEMBER 5, 2012

Biofuels grow at a slower rate due to lower crude oil prices and. The decline reflects increased domestic production of both petroleum and natural gas, increased use of biofuels, and lower demand resulting from the adoption of new vehicle fuel efficiency standards and rising energy prices. Biomass and biofuels growth is slower.

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JULY 14, 2009

In two other scenarios considered, a high oil price scenario (using EIA projections) and a battery swap operator-subsidzied scenario, EV new vehicle sales penetration reaches 85% and 86% respectively by 2030. lower on a per-mile basis than gasoline-powered cars, depending on the future price of oil. Becker (2009).

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

The potential for growth in demand for liquid fuels is focused on the emerging economies of China, India, and the Middle East, while liquid fuels demand in the United States, Europe, and other regions with well-established oil markets seems to have peaked. Rising world oil prices attract investment in areas previously considered uneconomic.

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