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...Capacity already exceeded demand in 2019, and another 1.7m b/d, from Nigeria to Kuwait, is due on line this year. Demand, though, is down by 9m b/d....
...Oil output has collapsed from well over 3m b/d in 1998 when Mr Chávez was first elected to around 800,000 b/d now....
...“pan-European b-to-c media deals”....
...While General Motors, Volkswagen and Toyota all make around 10m cars a year, each is playing catch-up on long-range, zero-emission vehicles....
...Instead it rose by 240,000 b/d. In December 2015 it said demand would rise by 10,000 b/d in 2016. As of late May, preliminary estimates instead showed volumes up 364,000 b/d on the year....
...Demand growth averaged about 1.1m b/d between 1990 and 2015. Last year it reached 1.84m b/d on the back of lower prices and was expected to fall sharply this year....
...Any organisation (a) running an enterprise at the heart of which is the function of carrying people in motor cars from where they are to where they want to be and (b) operating in part through a company...
...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....
...The International Energy Agency reckons the oil market is facing a third successive year when supply will exceed demand by 1.0m b/d, an imbalance that will place enormous strain on the ability of the oil...
...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...
...The Canadian Energy Research Institute said last month that Canada’s crude oil output growth would fall by 59 per cent by next year, from about 41,000 b/d to about 17,000 b/d in 2016.* Canada’s main stock...
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...The Energy Information Administration forecasts average consumption of 8.82m b/d for 2014. The government has repeatedly raised the forecast over the year....
...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....
...Morten Arntzen, chief executive of OSG, a tanker company, counters: “Transportation is a really minuscule part of the delivery cost of gasoline....
...the Mississippi River and plans by Magellan Midstream Partners to reverse a pipeline to funnel 135,000 b/d of crude from west Texas to the Gulf coast....
...Canada, the top oil exporter to the US, has encountered a new competitor in neighbouring US states such as North Dakota where output has topped 500,000 b/d....
...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....
...They have a point: the International Energy Agency, even after noting an annual decline in June, projects China’s demand will this year rise some 550,000 b/d to 9.6m b/d....
...Ford Motor lost 1.8 per cent to $12.94 after announcing a drop in second-quarter earnings....
...He runs down – in all senses – the greedy companies ripe for satirical downsizing....
...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...
...Like all evocative fantasies, it has one foot in the real world: Franklin D. Roosevelt did propose in 1938 that Alaska might become a homeland for the Jews, but his scheme was voted down in Congress....
...Michael Meyers, who runs a boutique advertising agency in Chicago, says companies that test new products in Chicago find that “if it works here, it'll work from the Appalachian mountains to the Rockies”....
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