Interesting article about Oil

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Below is an Interesting article I found, which says that.....Do not
expect much from Crude Oil producers and future is not with the
# {5 X2 {8 h" R6 Q1 S) R# fcompanies producing Jet fuels but Biofuels. Also no wonder if some of
these oil producer will go bankrupt or out of the business even if
+ W: r5 L; ?# ~7 A( ~" z1 Mcrude prices improves. This implies also to good names such as Shell,
9 W: H+ Q4 E) U2 B. \6 UEXXON, BG, BP, Cheveron ....xyz.. oils
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- v% \% g2 }- @Recently OPEC reduced crude oil production twice over just a few
. |1 G6 p8 _6 h( i5 y" e+ ?" K# Nmonths. There are three wars going on in Gaza, Iraq and Afghandistan.
A year ago these things would have spiked the price of crude oil by at
least $50.00 per barrel. Today, oil price declined by a record amount.
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, E+ u- w6 ~, GThere are several reasons the price of oil is decreasing in the face
: ^, {% V' k! ~$ E1 b$ fof so much news. These reasons are:

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, H6 b, {& A, h, \. i( m& `2 E1. New oil has been found in Canada, Montana, North & South Dakota and
+ q! `& Z' [- c3 v3 j5 rin the ocean near Brazil. Each of these oil fields has more oil than
0 a) M2 Q* G$ @6 C0 gArabia.
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% ?5 [4 M% r& H2. New natural gas has been found in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
This is the largest find in North America.
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$ M5 W1 D# w' h/ }+ l3. New methods of injecting CO2 and surfactants into oil wells is
being used to double their output.
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( i% O; p; |9 S/ d7 {4. Production of bio-fuels is beginning to reach critical mass. Bio
% R4 C' R2 [9 f2 wfuel is being produced from many plants and algae. The production
/ e% a$ h, O7 ~) H5 `: Upotential per acre in some cases is astounding. Many countries are
racing to produce bio fuels.
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6 G8 v" v" _% |3 P' r& d- s5. Virtually every restaurant in the US and all food processing plants
, F) e* f4 v2 f5 p2 Care now selling their used oil to bio-diesel producers. Every pork,
cattle, turkey and chicken processing plant will soon sell their fat
: B% e( K6 X- y4 v" C8 u& Nto bio-diesel producers. One pork processing plant in Oklahoma is
% ?+ Y( y1 i2 iproducing 30,000 gallons of bio-diesel per day from pork fat.


6. There are 99 nuclear reactors in various stages of planning and
) X1 @2 _8 A5 S3 D) Xconstruction around the world at this time. Several hundred more are
expected to be built in the future. Much of the energy they produce
will replace oil.


7. Every company in any form of transportaion business is replacing
! T' m4 N/ t! Q5 {older equipment such as trucks, airplanes, train engines, ships, etc.
with new more fuel efficient equipment. Airlines and railway companies
( H; z3 C) W# d; Q, G4 E7 Nare experiencing 20% to 25% better fuel econony with the new
equipment.
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8 G5 y# h/ x; ^+ n& E# m+ IAirlines are flying airplanes with bio-fuel. They are finding the bio-
fuel is cleaner and performs better than jet fuel.

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/ S! L/ \( Z" I" `) \8. Cities and counties throughout the US are selling the rights to
8 c4 {% `! q, `4 `" N! Fcapture methane gas from landfills. This is a huge source of gas
available at very little cost or risk. The gas is displacing crude
oil.


) O8 K% q% f( }$ E# A- \8 N9. Coal is being transformed into a clean burning liquid fuel. The CO2
3 |+ M: M' ?  Uproduced as a byproduct is sold to oil companies for injection into
$ c# x5 h# B2 i0 ]. j- n, ?oil wells.
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; b7 w; P4 J; D& j  f$ _10. Solar, wind and ocean energy is displacing oil as an energy
3 i' \+ N3 Q7 x7 K' F& X, I9 Vsource. Three new wind turbines are being erected every day in the US.
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8 a0 y2 T* W, r2 `Each of the above by itself will not make a large difference in the
price of crude oil but the sum of all of them together is world
- j% g- X  y3 n& P; t% F" ~changing. The important thing is that OPEC no longer has the ability
to control oil prices.


+ j6 t6 E# a, ^8 N  J; MWith the above scenario, I still believe that there are under
performed OIL companies and probably they are yet to get the justified
) a  j2 f  P8 ?2 |/ p4 S6 zvalue .....
; z, H, R: Y4 @4 ?4 a3 j; Q- H* TIAE- Ithaca , EPL Energy Partners Ltd, Opti etc ...
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( Z% ^) W5 a+ H0 \7 \0 fThe above articles are from WSJ .............PUBLISHED ON 9TH JAN
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