Crude prices have gone down nearly 30 percent this year, and analysts expect oil prices to remain low for even longer. Boon for consumers Lower oil prices are generally good for US consumers and the economy, said Jason Bordoff, ...
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Brent oil price hit 11-year low Monday as the market continued to be plagued by an oversupply of crude oil and weakening demand. Brent crude for February delivery decreased 53 cents to close at 36.35 U.S. dollars a barrel on the London ...
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Russia is against an increase in global crude production, rather than favouring a reduction, and remains pessimistic about the possibility of Moscow and Riyadh reaching a production coordination deal, Russia's energy minister Alexander ...
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China's crude stocks continued to grow for the fifth straight month in October, despite a month-on-month drop in net imports, output and slight rise in throughput, Platts calculations based on recently released official data showed. Crude ...
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Crude oil shipments by Kirby's inland barge fleet continued to slide in the third quarter of 2015, as did the price that transporting those volumes can command, executives said during the company's Q3 earnings call Thursday. Kirby moved ...
China's state-owned oil giants Sinopec and PetroChina reported a modest 1.73 million mt or 0.7% increase in their domestic oil products sales in the first nine months of 2015, but exports rose by 2.59 million mt or 12% in the same period, ...
China's total available crude supply significantly exceeded refinery throughput in December, suggesting 915,000 b/d of crude oil was added to storage during the month, although the total stockbuild during 2014 averaged just over 300,000 ...
China's crude imports from its major suppliers rose significantly in November versus a year ago, with Russian cargoes hitting a record high, although shipments from top exporter Saudi Arabia fell 5.9% to 3.99 million mt, detailed data from ...
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Platts’ analysis shows apparent oil demand in August was 41.19 million metric tons (mt), or an average 9.74 million barrels per day (b/d) — an increase of 3.7% year over year. This growth came despite a slew of bearish economic ...
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The Indonesian government reached a deal with lawmakers late Wednesday to revise down its targets for subsidized fuel consumption and crude production in its 2014 budget to make the figures more realistic, officials said. The measure cuts ...
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South Sudan has received over $3.5 billion from the sale of crude oil between June 2013 and May 2014, the country's oil minister Stephen Dhieu Dau said in a statement made available to Platts in the capital Juba on Sunday. "As from June ...
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Crude production in Libya is facing further setbacks this week, as loadings out of the 110,000 b/d Marsa al-Hariga crude terminal in Eastern Libya have stuttered to a halt. Traders and shipping sources said that no there have been no ...
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Argentine oil production fell 0.4% in March compared with the year-ago period, while natural gas output rose 0.5% over the same period, an industry report showed Friday. Crude production declined to an average of 533,651 b/d in March from ...
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The International Energy Agency said Thursday OPEC would need to boost its output in the third quarter by some 900,000 b/d from April's level to meet rising global demand, and warned that OECD oil stocks remained tight by historical ...
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Iraq exported 2.509 million b/d of crude in April, all from its southern oil terminals as the country's northern export pipeline remained inoperable. April exports were 112,000 b/d more than the 2.397 b/d exported from the country in ...
Tags: Crude, oil terminals