Neil McMahon
Neil McMahon
Neil McMahonis the author of ten novels, as well as a collaboration with James Patterson—Toys—which was a New York Times #1 Bestseller. He has written two series: the Carroll Monks books, and the Hugh Davoren books. In the late 1980s he wrote three horror novelsthat have been reissued as ebooks...
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The size of the buybacks and the relatively low percentage that is being reinvested in the industry would tend to indicate that oil companies don't have enough new upstream opportunities and projects to spend their money on.
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Finally, he calls me up, and he says, 'All right. This is it. You're going to have to write this. It's going to have to be explicit. This is a deal-breaker.' So I wrote it.
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Oil demand growth outside (industrialized countries) has been weaker than expected and that is where a lot of the new consumption is coming from.
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You go check your bank account. Works for me.
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We think these messages are at odds with the comments normally made to investors regarding future oil prices and the ability of producers to meet demand, and we wonder if perhaps those messages are actually a better indicator of the companies' thinking.