• The posted price of oil was the price at which oil companies offered to purchase oil from oil-producing governments. This price was set by the oil companies...
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    The price of oil, or the oil price, generally refers to the spot price of a barrel (159 litres) of benchmark crude oil—a reference price for buyers and...
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    Saudi Arabia initiated a price war on oil with Russia, which facilitated a 65% quarterly fall in the price of oil. The price war was triggered by a break-up...
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    The 1980s oil glut was a significant surplus of crude oil caused by falling demand following the 1970s energy crisis. The world price of oil had peaked...
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    Petroleum (redirect from Crude oil)
    PMC 10367496. PMID 19192735. S2CID 31407897. "Chevron Crude Oil Marketing – North America Posted Pricing – California". Crudemarketing.chevron.com. May 1, 2007...
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    inflation-adjusted price of a barrel of crude oil on NYMEX was generally under US$25/barrel in 2008 dollars. During 2003, the price rose above $30, reached...
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    OPEC (redirect from OPEC oil price shock)
    available, the multinational oil companies (MOCs) unilaterally reduced their posted prices for Venezuelan and Middle Eastern crude oil by 10 percent. Weeks later...
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    benchmark crude or marker crude is a crude oil that serves as a reference price for buyers and sellers of crude oil. There are three primary benchmarks, West...
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  • The 1990 oil price shock occurred in response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990, Saddam Hussein's second invasion of a fellow OPEC member...
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  • service companies may produce, maintain, and repair equipment used in oil extraction and oil transportation. In 2019, the global oilfield services market was...
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    reduced the price of oil for Venezuela and Middle Eastern producers, which provoked anger among oil-producing governments. This prompted the oil-producing...
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    after the oil companies slashed the posted price of oil, but the posted price of oil remained consistently higher than the market price of oil between 1961...
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    only decreased by approximately four percent, the oil markets' reaction raised the price of crude oil drastically over the next 12 months, more than doubling...
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    major oil broker saying, "The world is floating in oil. The numbers we are facing now are dreadful." Forbes magazine said, "The ongoing oil price slump...
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    the ones who controlled the posted prices. Companies could increase the actual price of oil without changing the posted price, thus avoiding an increase...
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    Ghawar oil wells with associated gas oil separation plants, and saltwater treatment pipeline, that had been mothballed during the 1980s oil price collapse...
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    whether the oil exists but whether it can be extracted economically at a given price. Historically, it was theorized that a secular decline in oil production...
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    price cartel OPEC. According to the Oil Climate Index, carbon emissions from oil-sand crude are 31% higher than from conventional oil. In Canada, oil...
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  • companies only involved in refining and marketing. Energy portal List of largest oil and gas companies by revenue List of oilfield service companies...
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    down by the global market price for crude oil. According to Rapier, Venezuela's oil reserves are largely of "extra-heavy crude oil" which might "not be economical...
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    in large part because during falls in the price of oil and gas, a well may be unproductive, but if prices rise, even low-production wells may be economically...
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    predominantly specializing in oil and gas. The second-largest direct descendant of Standard Oil, and originally known as the Standard Oil Company of California...
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    grade or mix of crude oil; the term is also used to refer to the spot price, the futures price, or assessed price for that oil. In colloquial usage, WTI...
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    Petroleum Classification Light crude oil Sour crude oil Mazut List of crude oil products Oil price increases since 2003 "Oil markets explained". BBC News. 'Sweet'...
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    Brent Crude (redirect from Brent oil)
    financially traded oil market based around the North Sea of Northwest Europe; colloquially, Brent Crude usually refers to the price of the ICE (Intercontinental...
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    explored), and the pricing is usually quoted based on FOB (free on board, without consideration of final delivery costs). The three most quoted oil products are...
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    1895. American oil companies including Union Oil Company became concerned with this development because oil prices had fallen too low for oil companies to...
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    when the oil can still be extracted profitably. This depends on the cost of the extraction method and the current price of crude oil. When prices are high...
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    (December 2004), a one-dollar change in the price of crude oil on the international market would alter Iran's oil revenues by US$1 billion. In 2012, Iran...
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    The usage and pricing of gasoline (or petrol) results from factors such as crude oil prices, processing and distribution costs, local demand, the strength...
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