Oil Market Update (April 30, 2013)
Oil – A brief overview of oil price developments, supply and demand and significant market movers.
Oil – A brief overview of oil price developments, supply and demand and significant market movers.
Gas – A brief overview of gas price developments, supply and demand and significant market movers.
Oil – A brief overview of oil price developments, supply and demand and significant market movers.
Gas – With natural gas trading at a significant discount to crude, investors are seeking companies looking for the next big gas play. Argentina boasts huge gas potential and is capable of becoming an investor favorite in the long term.
Oil – Bloomberg reported that Total SA (NYSE:TOT) aims to sell between $15 and $20 billion in assets over the next two years in order to raise money for oil and gas projects. It also plans to boost its oil output by 3 percent a year until 2015, up from its previous targeted increase of 2.5 percent each year.
Oil – Reuters reported that South Sudan, which recently seceded from Sudan, plans to divide an oil block held mainly by Total SA (NYSE:TOT) into three parts. Total will receive only one of the new areas.
Gas – Reuters reported that Total SA (NYSE:TOT), Spain's Repsol (OTC Pink:REPYY) and Austria's OMV (OTC Pink:OMVKY) signed an agreement with Bulgaria that allows them to explore for gas and oil in the Khan Asparuh block. The 14,440 square kilometer block is located off Bulgaria's Black Sea coast and could produce up to 84 billion cubic meters of gas.
Gas – Reuters reported that shares in Total SA (NYSE:TOT) rose more than two percent on the news that the company had plugged a well at its North Sea Elgin platform that had been leaking for seven weeks.
Gas – Bloomberg reported that yesterday Total SA (NYSE:TOT) stopped a gas leak in Nigeria and this week expects to halt a leak in the North Sea that began on March 25. There is not yet a date for when operations in Nigeria will restart.
Gas – Shale gas has already been dubbed a ‘game changer’ for US energy markets - these three hotspots may prove to be just as fruitful.
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