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Mar 29 2023
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En Route to Renationalization?
MEXICO LEADER VOWS TO END CRUDE OIL EXPORTS
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Production/Supply/Demand
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Mexico oil reserves will last a mere eight years at the current extraction rates and refined product import dependency now exceeds 50%. This report examines Mexico's oil production collapse, an attempt at privatization, and its current reversal under a new President who wants to end oil exports.
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Dec 27 2022
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December 27, 2022: Nine Waning Exporters
OIL STATES' EXPORT STATUS TRANSITION
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Production/Supply/Demand
Imports/Exports
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In 2005, the nine nations featured in this report exported a combined 5-million barrels per day to world consumers. Now, instead of exporting, this group imports 1.4-million b/d. This report features dramatic events that have flipped nations from petroleum exporter to importer status.
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Sep 28 2022
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Gyrating Production, Price, Profits
MAJORS FINANCIAL RECOVERY, 2022
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Production/Supply/Demand
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Oil and gas producers lost billions in 2020, recovered nicely in 2021, and so far in 2022 are enjoying huge profits thanks to elevated crude oil and gas prices. But despite 2022's achievements, dark clouds are forming on the horizon including the increasing likelihood of a global recession, which would pummel demand. The world's six largest private major oil companies are featured herein.
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Jun 21 2022
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Handicapped Refining and Embargo Put
2022 DIESEL SUPPLY IN CRISIS
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Production/Supply/Demand
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Shut refineries in the U.S. and elsewhere, delayed refining expansion, and embargos are rendering current capacity inadequate to handle even the modest recovery in global distillate demand this year. This report examines price, supply, stocks, and potential recovery scenarios.
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Mar 29 2022
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How OPEC+ Is Amassing Power
A NEW WORLD ORDER FOR PETROLEUM
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Production/Supply/Demand
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OPEC's share of global production had been slipping but the more relevant group, OPEC+, has emerged as a dominant force. OPEC+ accounts for 54.2% of global output. The organization's many past campaigns to achieve cooperation with non-OPEC producing nations had limited and brief success, but this time it is amassing clout thanks to the global ideology set against fossil fuels -- and to the singular petroleum power of super collaborator Russia.
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Dec 27 2021
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How and Why of Global Gasoline's Price Rally
REVIEW OF TUMULTUOUS 2020-2021
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Retail Prices
Subsidies
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After an extreme price crash, the world retail price of gasoline hit bottom in April 2020, then climbed with a vengeance past pre-pandemic levels. World motorists are now hard-pressed with high price, curtailed mobility and strained economies. This report finds 28 nations are now subsidizing gasoline, shielding citizens by deliberate delay or sluggish government response.
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Sep 29 2021
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Golden Zone Regained
STRONG REBOUND IN U.S. REFINING MARGIN
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Margin
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After a miserable 2020 and poor start in 2021, U.S. refining margin has regained its prior stellar level and so far this year averages its highest since 2015. But product volumes recovered weakly and some plants did not survive. This report examines margin history, oil prices, the shale oil advantage, idled capacity, and gasoline demand.
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Jun 24 2021
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Recession-Resistant Resource
U.S. SHALE OIL'S STAR IS STILL RISING
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Production/Supply/Demand
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Contrary to experts' expectations, U.S. shale oil production's 2020 decline was not deep, and it is recovering nicely in 2021. Shale oil is on track to enable the U.S., the world's largest producer, to set an all-time record high by 2022. The boom is still on.
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Mar 29 2021
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U.S. Gasoline a Very Unstable Factor in
WORLD OIL DEMAND 2021
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Demand
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Incipient trends point to world economic growth of 5.5% and petroleum demand of 4.5% in 2021 as virus vaccination and receding lockdowns progress. World recovery is handicapped by curtailed oil supply and flooded currency supply. Current prospects for a key component of global oil demand, that of U.S. gasoline demand, are presented in this report.
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Dec 22 2020
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To World Consumers' Benefit
LIBYA OIL OUTPUT ESCALATING
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Production/Supply/Demand
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Libya's current big comeback as oil exporter arrives at a time of recession-weakened world demand and is being greeted with popular consternation that any added barrel will weaken petroleum prices. From nearly zero earlier this year, production is up to some 1.22-million barrels daily. This report features Libya's oil production over time against dramatic internal events, and its growing contribution to world consumers' supply and price stability.
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