Fadel Gheit
Fadel Gheit
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Part of the reason (companies are having trouble adding real reserves) is that there has not been an elephant discovery -- one over a billion barrels -- for 15 years.
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The companies will have to work hard to earn their performance. They are not going to get a free ride on the back of rising oil and gas prices, which are likely to be flat. What will excite investors are those companies that are able to grow production, add reserves, control costs, raise dividends or buy back stock.
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The U.S. uses 20 million barrels of oil a day. Prices are currently inflated by about $15 a barrel, and that additional cost is effectively a $300 million dollar-a-day tax on Americans, eating away at disposable income for people in this country,
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The market is therefore focused on two things: No additional supplies coming from OPEC. The other factor is that we should be entering what is a high demand period for oil products with the start of the summer season,
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It was like a very long dream, and we're finally waking up. Gasoline by any measure is still very, very inexpensive compared to anywhere.
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The U.S. and global economies are like the walking wounded, ... It's not a matter of whether they will fall, but of when.
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The bulk of the replacement in the last three years was through acquisitions. The easy oil has been discovered.
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All they want to do is maintain the same speed.
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Operationally they exceeded expectations in terms of production; their production volume was up significantly from year ago.
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All these alternative energy sources are unlikely to make a dent in the big picture. It's going to be many, many years into the future before we see any meaningful results. I don't think any real analysts or investors are betting the ranch on hydrogen.
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Any cooling in economic growth immediately will take oil demand down so one would expect the price will come down.
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A lot of people were expecting that Saddam Hussein would pull a trick before year-end because he was trying to put pressure on the U.N. to lift sanctions or try to alter the position of the sanction, so he threatened two weeks ago to stop exporting oil, ... The traders panicked in anticipation of a supply shortage, but Iraq never stopped producing oil.
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These governments are totally unpopular and repressive. The only thing they have going for them is buying stability, throwing money at their friends and enemies.
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The damage from Hurricane Rita has been significantly under-reported.