Antoine Halff
Antoine Halff
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Geopolitical factors have been the major factor pushing us higher and they will get worse before they get better.
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If it actually produced as much as it could, obviously, it would add tremendously to oil supplies, and it would push the price down.
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It's quite likely that the impact of Katrina on energy production will end up dwarfing that of Ivan.
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It's late in the game. The only policy changes that would have an immediate effect would be demand restraints, such as increases in gasoline taxes, alternate driving days or enforcement of speed limits.
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At the same time, what this attack demonstrates is not just how much the Saudi oil machine is a target for attacks, but also how prepared the Saudi oil company and military are, and how effective they are at thwarting attempts to disrupt oil production and exports. There are two sides to this.
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There is tremendous political risk to supplies, including from OPEC producers, such as Iran or Venezuela, who have trouble meeting their production quotas, or even Nigeria. They can't address these concerns openly, but I am sure they are on everybody's mind.
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The measure is in line with the populist tone of the new regime in Bolivia; however how it is carried out in practice still seems somewhat unclear.
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The market is awakening to the scope of the risks.
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It's new in the sense that this is the boldest attempt to strike at the heart of a Saudi oil-production complex. So far they had been confined to office buildings and housing units.