Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's got to be worth up to $2 a barrel initially.

It's less than 30,000 barrels a day in a country that consumes 21 million. That's not even rearranging a single deck chair on the Titanic. But psychologically, it has some effect.

Gary Miller

In the United States, oil demand is projected to grow by 340,000 barrels per day this year and gasoline demand is projected to grow nearly two percent, averaging 9.3 million barrels per day for the summer.

In the wet-barrel market - the real barrels that are stored and traded - there is no shortage of oil. But the paper barrels - the futures market - react like a lightning rod in a volatile market. That's their role.

Instead, we get up to 50 million barrels of oil.

Bill Richardson

In our meetings with oil producing countries, we simply and forcefully made our case that increased production is in the interest in both producing and consuming nations, ... We made the point that the world is consuming 75 million barrels per day, and it is producing 73.

In normal downturns, you lose some big players. This industry was not built for $62 a barrel oil.

Nomar Garciaparra

I just threw the barrel at it, tried to drive it. Fortunately for me I got lucky and it went out for me.

In that sense, it has been rewarding in a sick way. We're leaner and meaner with oil at $55 a barrel coming off the peak than we were going up to $55 the first time.

Iran and Nigeria have got people extremely nervous. There's a concern that around two and a half million barrels per day of Iranian exports could be removed.

If you're talking about a 400,000 barrels per day refinery next to a French Chateau in the Loire valley, the timeline is infinite. If you're looking at an industrialized part that already includes an oil refinery, it's much less of a big deal.

Ann Landers

If you want to catch a trout, don't fish in a herring barrel

I supported local projects in the $286 billion transportation bill, even though it was filled with pork (pork barrel projects),

By June we should be looking at modestly another half a million barrels of capacity a day.

Certainly this is saying that Shell is going to miss some deliveries after the explosion. It's a question of how long the delays will last, but 180,000 barrels per day is not that big.

I just go up there and whale away after it and hope it hits the barrel of the bat. I don't think there's any plan. The biggest key is having guys on base. When you do that, he has to throw it for a strike. If he does, he might leave it up, it will tumble more and you can get good swings at it.

I played basketball. I barrel raced. We used to break horses.

I didn't tell them anything at half-time because those players have stared down the barrel of a gun before.

Clint Hurdle

He's swinging the bat very well. He's got some barrel down there to drive in some runs. There are some things we've talked to him about we want him to focus on and take into the season, but I'm just looking forward to watching him play in that role and getting more opportunities to help us be productive offensively as well as defensively.

The large 3.2 million barrel increase in (US) gasoline accelerated selling.

The last thing we need is crude moving back to the $70-a- barrel level.

The inventory data must be quite a bearish factor in the market. The price is well supported around $58 a barrel though.

After each heat, we're able to quickly turn the barrels up and dump the debris, filling them up and setting them down for the next round,

Some easy money has been made by people in energy stocks but I don't see anything on the horizon that's going to cause oil to go back to $20 a barrel any time soon since there is a global supply/demand imbalance,

Brian Toner had a great day today. Brian Smith got the barrel through the ball, Minogue got a couple hits, and we needed everyone of them today. It was a hitters day, tough for the pitchers to establish their breaking balls.

David Robinson

This acquisition represents an exceptional opportunity for us to increase shareholder value. We are starting with around 40 barrels of output a day, but with considerable potential to boost production.

With oil prices over 60.0 dollars, it is not necessary, particularly with Nigeria losing about 500,000 barrels per day.

With oil prices at $60 a barrel it was a foregone conclusion they were not going to cut. If you do see disruption from Nigeria, if you do see disruption from Iran, the oil price will go substantially higher from here. So OPEC is reluctant to start turning the taps off just now.

With the completion of this acquisition, Black Dragon is poised for rapid revenue growth in 2006. With 1200 company well bores, including 413 producing wells currently in our portfolio, it is our goal to be on target by year end to produce over 30,000 barrels of oil per month.

Productivity did set the tone, and now oil's moved back up slightly, but it doesn't seem to be spiking. As a group, consumers and traders, we're getting used to the idea of $60 a barrel oil.

Production in the Gulf has yet to recover and the trouble in Nigeria shows no signs of easing. We are missing about 1 million barrels of output.

The simple announcement by U.S. authorities to place one million barrels a day ... will provoke a strong descent (in oil prices) on Monday.

There's a lot of market talk about whether we're going to hit the psychological 65 dollars a barrel mark or even 70 dollars in the near future. I think it will depend on how the geopolitical problems are played out.