crudeproduction.blogspot.com
Cat Cracker: Goldman closes out long positions
http://crudeproduction.blogspot.com/2007/10/goldman-closes-out-long-positions.html
Global Crude Oil Production. Wednesday, October 31, 2007. Goldman closes out long positions. Goldman Says `Take Profits' After Crude Hits Record. By Mathew Carr and Margot Habiby. Goldman Sachs Group Inc., the bank that said in July oil may reach $95 a barrel, told clients it was ` time to take profits' after crude rose to a record $93.80 in New York yesterday. Crude oil for December delivery fell $3.15, or 3.4 percent, to settle at $90.38 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The...The downside ...
crudeproduction.blogspot.com
Cat Cracker: Oil's Murky Math
http://crudeproduction.blogspot.com/2008/05/oils-murky-math.html
Global Crude Oil Production. Wednesday, May 14, 2008. May 13th, 2008. Where are we headed: Up to $200 a barrel? With little good data on supply or demand, oil's next price move is anyone's guess. At around $125 a barrel, crude oil has more than doubled in price since the end of 2006. How is it possible that the vast majority of government forecasters, stock analysts, economists, traders, and journalists who follow the oil market failed to foresee this? The answer is simple. On May 13, for example, the pr...
crudeproduction.blogspot.com
Cat Cracker: The Energy Report
http://crudeproduction.blogspot.com/2007/09/energy-report.html
Global Crude Oil Production. Thursday, September 13, 2007. September 13, 2007. Oil at 80. Are the stars out tonight? I can’t tell if it’s cloudy or bright and that may depend on whether or not you're long oil. The bullish stars came into perfect alignment in an explosive trading session that sent oil out of this world. Oil surged to an all time not inflation adjusted high of $80.00 a barrel in a day that saw all the energy products soar. The IEA and the market have been sending signals to the cartel all ...
crudeproduction.blogspot.com
Cat Cracker: Oil Futures Market Is Better Predictor Than Analysts
http://crudeproduction.blogspot.com/2007/10/oil-futures-market-is-better-predictor.html
Global Crude Oil Production. Tuesday, October 9, 2007. Oil Futures Market Is Better Predictor Than Analysts. Oil Futures Market Is Better Predictor Than Analysts. The crude futures markets in London and New York have been more accurate predictors of oil prices than market analysts during the past eight years, Deutsche Bank AG said. Hurricanes in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico in 2005 and cuts in production from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries helped spur oil prices, which reached a rec...Crude...
crudeproduction.blogspot.com
Cat Cracker: speculation
http://crudeproduction.blogspot.com/2008/06/speculation.html
Global Crude Oil Production. Tuesday, June 10, 2008. Http:/ www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ed8a1fdc-3667-11dd-8bb8-0000779fd2ac.html? Http:/ news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-06/10/content 8341383.htm. Speaking of Oil - Tom Kloza. Baker Hughes Rig Counts. Sprott's Peak Oil Watch. Commentary by Jim Jubak. Abdul Aziz bin Salman. Medium Term Oil Market Report.
crudeproduction.blogspot.com
Cat Cracker: Nigeria to Renegotiate Contracts
http://crudeproduction.blogspot.com/2008/01/nigeria-to-renegotiate-contracts.html
Global Crude Oil Production. Tuesday, January 22, 2008. Nigeria to Renegotiate Contracts. Nigeria to Renegotiate Contracts With Oil Companies. The Nigerian government informed oil companies it would like to renegotiate production contracts within the next three months, a move that will likely increase the nation's share of oil wealth. Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua said he wants to end government funding of joint ventures and instead leave oil companies to raise money on international capital markets&...
crudeproduction.blogspot.com
Cat Cracker: Does the Middle East Matter?
http://crudeproduction.blogspot.com/2007/09/does-middle-east-matter.html
Global Crude Oil Production. Thursday, September 20, 2007. Does the Middle East Matter? Does the Middle East Matter? Sep 19, 2007. The May and June issues of the British magazine Prospect. Hosted a fascinating spat over the strategic importance of the Middle East. In May, “The Middle of Nowhere” by Edward Luttwak. Author of The Last Oil Shock. Strahan rightly points out, “Luttwak claims the Middle East is irrelevant because it produces little but petroleum. Hasn’t he heard that oil provid...
crudeproduction.blogspot.com
Cat Cracker: Where Is Oil Headed?
http://crudeproduction.blogspot.com/2007/09/where-is-oil-headed.html
Global Crude Oil Production. Wednesday, September 19, 2007. Where Is Oil Headed? Where Is Oil Headed? A Contrarian Says $45 [Pt.I]. Where Is Oil Headed? A Contrarian Says $45 [Pt.II]. Does the Middle East Matter? Where Is Oil Headed? OPEC Says $80 Oil Wont. Oil Rises to Record $80.18. Platts: OPEC Output Dips in August. Speaking of Oil - Tom Kloza. Baker Hughes Rig Counts. Sprott's Peak Oil Watch. Commentary by Jim Jubak. Abdul Aziz bin Salman. Medium Term Oil Market Report.
crudeproduction.blogspot.com
Cat Cracker: OPEC Says $80 Oil Won't
http://crudeproduction.blogspot.com/2007/09/opec-says-80-oil-wont.html
Global Crude Oil Production. Sunday, September 16, 2007. OPEC Says $80 Oil Won't. OPEC Says $80 Oil Won't Last Due to `Fundamentals'. OPEC, whose members produce more than 40 percent of the world's oil, said crude at $80 a barrel won't last because ` fundamentals' don't support the price. I don't think the price will stay at $80,' Secretary General Abdalla el-Badri said today at a press conference in Vienna. ` The fundamentals don't support that.' The price of $80 a barrel is ` too high,' he added. Crude...
crudeproduction.blogspot.com
Cat Cracker: Venezuelan Oil Output
http://crudeproduction.blogspot.com/2007/09/venezuelan-oil-output.html
Global Crude Oil Production. Thursday, September 13, 2007. OPEC Seeks to Bridge Gulf Over Venezuelan Oil Output. By Adam Smallman, Dow Jones Newswires. FWN Financial News 9/13/2007. URL: http:/ www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp? VIENNA, Sep 13, 2007. Dow Jones Newswires is also a provider of estimated oil output by OPEC member countries. We are there to provide them with facilities, to show them how they can coincide with what the secondary sources are saying," al-Zayer said after a press conference on OP...
