Saudi Arabia cuts oil sales to U.S., ups China
Saudi Arabia, long the largest supplier of oil to the United States, has cut U.S. sales dramatically and may soon no longer be among the top five largest U.S. suppliers.
Saudi Arabia, long the largest supplier of oil to the United States, has cut U.S. sales dramatically and may soon no longer be among the top five largest U.S. suppliers.
A surge in Chinese and Indian oil demand that has helped push world prices to record highs is no passing phenomenon, analysts say.
Oil producers’ cartel Opec has agreed to raise its production quota by 1 million barrels a day, taking the daily limit to 27 million barrels. But as Opec’s daily output is already running at about 28 million barrels, it is unclear whether the new quota will result in extra production.
Russia has warned that production licences of foreign and domestic oil companies can be torn up at will if the nation’s fabulous natural wealth is not exploited on Moscow’s terms.
Surely it is time that depletion was treated explicitly rather than being buried in the statistics?
Responding to intense public opposition the U.S. Forest Service has withdrawn plans for imminent oil and gas leasing across a broad swath of scenic national forest lands south of Yellowstone National Park.
Russia turned up the pressure on beleaguered oil major Yukos on Wednesday, threatening to strip it of a key oil production license, a move that could force it out of business.
The oil market is over-supplied by three million barrels per day, Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zangeneh said here on Tuesday on the eve of an OPEC meeting.
With OPEC members pumping nearly all the crude they can, analysts worry that a supply crunch is ahead.
One of the reasons a great many people, policy makers and leaders find it impossible to face the issue of peak oil is because it challenges the very beliefs that we argue are a priori truths about industrialised western societies, without requirement for justification, our fundamental birth-rights.
Untapped fossil-fuel reserves could be hidden deep within our planet.
High international oil prices mean that Brazilian ethanol is rapidly winning a place in new markets, according to findings by consultant Júlio Maria Borges, director of the JOB Economy & Planning consulting firm in Brazil.