Peter Beutel
Peter Beutel
cause deal extremely gas great looks offshore oil potential powerful producing regions storm threaten unlikely
It is a powerful storm with the potential to cause a great deal of damage, but it looks extremely unlikely that this storm will threaten the offshore oil and gas producing regions of the Gulf.
amount huge oil stocks
With oil stocks so low, there's a huge amount of concern.
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We're still going to need to refine this oil into heating oil and gasoline before it really has an effect on us.
limit lose oil three weeks
If we lose one refinery for two or three weeks the sky's the limit (for oil prices).
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We also broke an important barrier. Once oil broke $62.50, a lot of mutual funds and speculators started buying.
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A combination of cold weather and good economic numbers has sent us higher. This week's data shows that the economy hasn't buckled under the pressure of high oil prices.
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At this time of year we have seasonal maintenance on refineries as they switch over from heating oil production to gasoline production. Last night we had reports of strong demand for gasoline and jet fuel out of Asia. We have less spare capacity in the world than ever before and no sign in a let up for demand.
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If we come back on Monday and there is no new hurricane and Wilma has not done any damage to oil and gas production, then I think traders will be selling almost in relief,
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The feeling was that Kerry might have tried to stop the restocking of the strategic petroleum reserve, and might have sold off reserves if oil got above $50.
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Last week's report showed builds in all three major categories, but we aren't expecting this week's report to be as bearish.
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OPEC hawks are still concerned that demand could drop dramatically during the second quarter. But with there being a number of threats to supplies, the cartel did not feel it made sense to cut output.
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People are not paying very close attention to it, ... At this point this market is just living and dying with every twist and turn of weather report -- we'll probably revisit it later but it's not important until we get Rita out of our systems.
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We're already in the position where every refinery unit is vital just to meet demand. We don't have any spare capacity. That's what it makes it so critical.
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It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. It's hard to tell at what point consumers will start to balk. It defies the laws of economics.