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...Martin Beck, chief economic adviser at EY ITEM Club: A little better....
...A committee organised a system of car pools and taxis to provide alternatives for transportation. A legal team challenged bus segregation in the courts. The black community closed ranks....
...Groupe Renault, top automotive player, and Plug Power Inc....
...Florida believes that cities like New York and London will quickly revive – “If there’s a huge sale, that’s where I’d buy.” From a tech perspective, New York remains an inviting prospect....
...Christopher Pissarides, Regius professor of Economics, London School of Economics: It will lag behind because (a) Brexit and uncertainties about trade are still present, (b) the government’s troubles, inflation...
...Next year it expects to increase the flow through its Edmonton rail terminal to 170,000 b/d, from 80,000 b/d earlier this year....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on October 24 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Freight transport uses some 16m b/d; aviation 5.8m b/d and petrochemicals another 11m b/d....
...UBV or ULL), and (d) resorting in its documentation to fictions, twisted language and even brand new terminology, merits, we think, a degree of scepticism....
...But on Thursday, a weekly report from the US energy department showed domestic gasoline, or petrol, consumption was a robust 9.1m barrels per day, up nearly 600,000 b/d from a week before....
...Department of Energy data released on Wednesday showed US ethanol plant output at 1.008m barrels per day in the week ended November 20, up 33,000 b/d from the week before and more than triple volumes of...
...Meanwhile, the company’s R&D as a percentage of sales, which has been falling since 2001, is creeping ever lower....
...India showed total product demand growing by 315,000 b/d from a year ago in April to 3.82m b/d while petrol demand breached the 500,000 b/d mark, up by almost 20 per cent year over year....
...To cover some of the losses, industry experts say Venezuela needs to ramp up its production of between 2.4m barrels a day and 2.8m b/d....
...In Florida, John Mica, chairman of the House transportation committee, decisively defeated Sandy Adams, who was elected in 2010, in a race in the seventh congressional district....
...In the Eagle Ford “shale” of Texas, production has jumped to 280,000 b/d from almost nothing four years ago and its low-sulphur crude is ill-suited for many refineries nearby....
...Emerging economies have meanwhile added 4.2m b/d in capacity, with another 1.8m b/d coming this year. “It’s really a tale of two markets,” says Toril Bosoni, IEA senior oil analyst....
...Oil’s residual use is in transportation, where consumption is being squeezed by low economic growth as well as by creeping gains in efficiency. US oil demand has fallen by 1.5m b/d in five years....
...Petroplus is shutting down its Petit Couronne refinery in France, with 162,000 b/d capacity; Antwerp, Belgium, with 108,000 b/d capacity; and Cressier, Switzerland, with 68,000 b/d capacity....
...Middle East producers are set to consume 1m b/d more in 2015 than in 2010 with another 1.5m b/d by 2020. That could tighten markets considerably....
...While non-Opec oil production will also slow next year – the IEA forecasts an increase of 0.5m b/d, against a 0.9m b/d rise in output in 2010 – inventories at near-record levels should provide an ample supply...
...The IEA expects efforts to improve safety and environmental standards to be redoubled, and anything between 300 thousand b/d and 800 thousand b/d of oil supply included in their outlook could be lost, which...
...Were one to snap, it could cut a crewman in half. “Marjorie B full stop,” McAllister says, issuing a command that actually means something closer to “slow down”. Caution is king....
...A new pipeline will soon increase flows into the region by another 100,000 b/d....
...From a peak of 30.3 million b/d in July last year, Opec-11 crude oil production has come down to about 26 million b/d, helping create a floor to global crude oil prices....
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