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THE Price Of Crude Pt. 15
Re: THE Price Of Crude Pt. 15
by Outcast_Searcher » Wed 26 Aug 2020, 21:02:43
Funny how reluctant peakers were to acknowledge speculators back in the runup of 2008, though... Speculation or really any accusation of financial manipulation is the convenient excuse when prices aren't where one expected or hoped them to be.
And liberals are the most outrageous about this at high pricing extremes, BTW.
When prices are high, it's all about windfall profits taxes, and liberal politicians are falling all over themselves to try to scoop up votes proclaiming their desire for that, ala Bernie the taker style.
But when prices are very LOW (which is as random, re speculation, as when they're very high), do ANY liberals THANK the producers for the low prices? OF COURSE NOT.
Because THAT, of course, would be highly unlikely to BUY VOTES.
Given the track record of the perma-doomer blogs, I wouldn't bet a fast crash doomer's money on their predictions.
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Re: THE Price Of Crude Pt. 15
by sparky » Wed 26 Aug 2020, 22:29:18
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My point on the price of crude with speculation is somewhat more nuanced
speculation act as a froth on top of the price of production ,
since all production prices are different , some very low other quite high ,
it's the price of the "ultimate traded barrel" which fix the world wide quoted price
you can see the problem
a lot of the industry has little commonality with world wide quoted price
for reason of logistics , refineries location , politics or grade of oil real prices are quite variable
speculators were riding an expansive market with a very short cycle
there is the real market , airline companies usually arbitrage their fuel cost by taking position on the oil market
other actually use the physical oil that's the 1/50 of the trade market
speculators have no use for crude , they mostly don't even know much about it
they can buy and sell with no regard to the real quantities used in the refineries
producers does , when the refineries throttled down their inputs , the real buyers disappeared and the music stopped ,
it turned out to be a game of musical chair with very few chairs indeed
now the price is more or less trending reality ,
again the crude oil market is a big place with various local condition , reality is here and now
not next month in New York
My point on the price of crude with speculation is somewhat more nuanced
speculation act as a froth on top of the price of production ,
since all production prices are different , some very low other quite high ,
it's the price of the "ultimate traded barrel" which fix the world wide quoted price
you can see the problem
a lot of the industry has little commonality with world wide quoted price
for reason of logistics , refineries location , politics or grade of oil real prices are quite variable
speculators were riding an expansive market with a very short cycle
there is the real market , airline companies usually arbitrage their fuel cost by taking position on the oil market
other actually use the physical oil that's the 1/50 of the trade market
speculators have no use for crude , they mostly don't even know much about it
they can buy and sell with no regard to the real quantities used in the refineries
producers does , when the refineries throttled down their inputs , the real buyers disappeared and the music stopped ,
it turned out to be a game of musical chair with very few chairs indeed
now the price is more or less trending reality ,
again the crude oil market is a big place with various local condition , reality is here and now
not next month in New York
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Re: THE Price Of Crude Pt. 15
by REAL Green » Wed 09 Sep 2020, 06:20:51
“IEA: Oil Demand Recovery Has Stalled”
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/I ... ews+Update)
“In its latest Oil Market Report for August, the IEA downgraded its oil demand forecast for this year by 140,000 bpd compared to the estimate from the previous month’s report. This was the first downgrade in several months, “reflecting the stalling of mobility as the number of Covid-19 cases remains high, and weakness in the aviation sector,” the IEA said. The IEA expected in the middle of August that crude oil demand this year would be 8.1 million bpd lower than it was in 2019. The market will be waiting for the most recent assessment from the IEA in its next report scheduled to be released on September 15.”
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/I ... ews+Update)
“In its latest Oil Market Report for August, the IEA downgraded its oil demand forecast for this year by 140,000 bpd compared to the estimate from the previous month’s report. This was the first downgrade in several months, “reflecting the stalling of mobility as the number of Covid-19 cases remains high, and weakness in the aviation sector,” the IEA said. The IEA expected in the middle of August that crude oil demand this year would be 8.1 million bpd lower than it was in 2019. The market will be waiting for the most recent assessment from the IEA in its next report scheduled to be released on September 15.”
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Re: THE Price Of Crude Pt. 15
by vtsnowedin » Wed 09 Sep 2020, 10:08:01
I doubt the oil industry will see any good news as long as Covid hangs over their heads. Not to worry though as the oil in the ground will wait for the demand and price for it to return. Perhaps in a year or more.
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Re: THE Price Of Crude Pt. 15
by evilgenius » Wed 09 Sep 2020, 18:04:09
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rockdoc123', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')nd now Canada can't take up the slack.
what "slack" would that be? Refineries are full, storage is full, nobody is buying oil because there is so much of it around and the refineries have lost a lot of the market for their products. Have you been living under a rock?
You didn't read the next line. You cut it right out. It said before these cheap prices they couldn't. I guess you did that because you like to accuse people of living under rocks? Anyway, it's an allusion to the state of things, where Canada was already having trouble before prices got this cheap. There were fires. There was the usual political tension. Then the oil price broke.
I wondered if West Africa, which has always been the next big thing just a few years of development away would be adversely affected. West Africa was always a hedge against Venezuela blowing up in America's face, and against Canada being able to pull off the sort of environment end run which they did. There is a lot going on in the Gulf of Guinea. The powers there are fed, in part, by oil. Nigeria is a very important nation in Africa. They recently managed to remove a ruler from power, when most African nations who elect a person can't seem to shake them once they have burrowed themselves in. Does that mean that these cheap prices have reduced the impact that crude plays in those kind of domestic shenanigans? Is king crude on his way out, or just laying low? King crude has been a major player in many country's domestic politics. Will that role continue.
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