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Today’s Stunted Oil Prices Could Cause Oil Price Shock In 2020

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As oil prices remain unsteady and OPEC continues to make headlines every hour, the world is focused on oil’s immediate future. In a speech made at the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators’ 2017 International Petroleum Summit, Johnston laid out his concerns for the future of oil.

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

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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. It might be that we see quite a dramatic reduction in replacing the capacity and of course that will have an impact, eventually, on price.”. When they go down, SUVs are back in style.

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Saudis Expand Price War Downstream

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The gross refining margin is nothing but the difference between the value of the refined products and price of the crude oil. In case of Saudi Arabia, the price of crude oil would be extremely low. Is Saudi Arabia likely to win a potential price war against Asian producers of diesel? By offering almost 2.8

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IEA: global energy efficiency progress drops to slowest rate since start of decade

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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% of total transport final demand.

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Norweign Drivers switch to Electric Cars

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Most people do know and feel that if we drive electric cars we could reduce the consumption of oil and could reduce pollution. It is seen only one third is taking step to buy at any point of time. By 2017, the number of stations increased to 300 from 2014. Americans still love their air-polluting and smog-producing gas guzzlers.

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IEA WEO-2012 finds major shift in global energy balance but not onto a more sustainable path; identifies potential for transformative shift in global energy efficiency

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The cost of fossil-fuel subsidies has been driven up by higher oil prices; they remain most prevalent in the Middle East and North Africa, where momentum towards their reform appears to have been lost. Oil demand reaches 99.7 emissions is not taken before 2017, all the allowable CO 2. — WEO-2012. Renewables.

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