Showing posts with label Venezuela. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Venezuela. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Will the Keystone XL Decision Be Based on Incorrect Assumptions?

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Some of the facts about the Keystone XL pipeline project that President Obama cited in an interview last month turned out to be wrong. That...
Wednesday, June 13, 2012

The Summer Oil Slump

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Instead of US consumers facing $5 gasoline this summer, as some analysts had predicted , we now find prices slipping well below $4 per gall...
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

More Long-Term Pressure on Oil Prices

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A pair of items in today's Financial Times could signal a longer run of high oil prices, even if Europe were to slip into recession and ...
Friday, October 17, 2008

The New Oil Cycle

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As of yesterday's close on the New York Mercantile Exchange, the price of crude oil has fallen 50% from its July high-water mark. The me...
Tuesday, March 04, 2008

A Stall Point for Oil?

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It's been a long time since the oil markets offered much good news, particularly on the supply side. Since the end of 2002, a litany of ...
Wednesday, February 20, 2008

And One Cent

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Oil futures finally closed above $100 per barrel yesterday, yet the context could not have been more different from the first time the marke...
Monday, February 11, 2008

Barrel Rattling

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The chance that Venezuelan President Chavez will follow through on his threat to cut off oil exports to the US, in retaliation for a freeze ...
Friday, November 30, 2007

Another Castro, With Oil?

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Roger Cohen’s column in yesterday’s New York Times called attention to Venezuela’s impending constitutional referendum, which is expected t...
Thursday, August 23, 2007

The Chavez Way (Re-run)

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I see that President Chavez has moved another step closer to reshaping Venezuela into a Cuba with oil, by gaining preliminary approval for h...
Wednesday, August 01, 2007

Joining the Party Up North

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Marathon's announced acquisition of Western Oil Sands Inc., a Canadian firm with a significant stake in the Alberta oil sands play, exte...
Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Replacing Venezuela

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When Venezuela takes control today of the Orinoco oil fields largely developed at the expense of American oil companies, it is sending a cle...
Friday, March 09, 2007

Trade Missions

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In the last week two powerful executives have taken important trips to meet with officials in nations that could supply the US with addition...