Oil is priced in U.S. Dollar (USD or US$); therefore, the oil price becomes strongly linked to fluctuations to the strengths and weaknesses of the USD. The USD is the world’s dominant reserves currency, and changes to its exchange rate are closely linked to the monetary policies of the U.S. Federal Reserve (the Fed inContinue reading “The Prices of USD, Oil, and U.S. Fiscal and Monetary Policies”
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World Crude Oil Supplies per July 2017
In this post I present developments in world crude oil (including condensates) supplies since January 2007 and per July 2017. In this post the world crude oil (inclusive condensates) supplies is split into three entities, North America [Canada, Mexico and the US], OPEC(13) and other Non OPEC [World – {North America + OPEC(13)}] with aContinue reading “World Crude Oil Supplies per July 2017”
Norwegian Crude Oil Reserves And Extraction per 2016
In this post I present actual Norwegian crude oil extraction and status on the development in discoveries and reserves and what this has now resulted in for expectations for future Norwegian crude oil extraction. This post is also an update of an earlier post about Norwegian crude oil reserves and production per 2015. Norwegian crudeContinue reading “Norwegian Crude Oil Reserves And Extraction per 2016”