By Duncan Sutherland – Exclusive to Heavy Oil Investing News Market news The short to medium term outlook for oil sands and heavy oil projects remains negative. As the barrel price for light sweet crude remains (relatively) low, new investments in oil sands projects are unlikely to be forthcoming. The combination of low prices and [...]
By Duncan Sutherland – Exclusive to Heavy Oil Investing News Canada: Upgrader is going up later than usual this week because of the Canadian Federal Election and the American Presidential debate. Now that these two events are a matter of record, there is much good news for the heavy oil and oil sands industries. First, [...]
By Duncan Sutherland – Exclusive to Heavy Oil Investing News Market news As predicted, the combination of falling oil prices, demand destruction and tight credit is beginning to affect heavy oil and oil sands. Energy stocks and trusts are down, and the news marginalia suggests that companies have a bleak outlook for the future profitability [...]
By Duncan Sutherland – Exclusive to Heavy Oil Investing News Market News: Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. Apologies to Winston Churchill, but this quote is perhaps the best measure of the rocky state of the global financial [...]
By Duncan Sutherland – Exclusive to Heavy Oil Investing News Brass tacks In markets like these, it behooves investors, advisers, businesspeople and journalists to return to first principles. May I first offer a mea culpa for failing to forecast the precipitous decline in barrel prices? Sorry. Getting down to brass tacks, the economic fundamentals of [...]
By Duncan Sutherland – Exclusive to Heavy Oil Investing News Market news Ouch! For our Canadian investors in commodities, times have certainly been better. The TSX has been dragged downward by mining and energy concerns this week, and investors are understandably worried. Some see it as a natural part of a cycle, others as a [...]
By Duncan Sutherland – Exclusive to Heavy Oil Investing News Market News As most of you know by now, the barrel price for oil has dropped pr ecipitously in the wake of Gustav’s fairly uneventful passage through the Gulf of Mexico. The drop in prices has weighed down the energy-heavy TSX indexes, energy companies and [...]
An official reported, Iran has an estimated more than 85 billion barrels of reserved heavy oil, suggesting about 60 per cent of the country’s reserves are of that crude category Emadi was quoted as saying: China has obtained good experience in the past few years in the extraction of heavy oil, and it has managed to [...]
By Duncan Sutherland – Exclusive to Heavy Oil Investing News Market and international news Falling natural gas prices are a boon to oil sands operators, so if prices remain low in the upcoming months, Q3 results should improve, especially for refiners. A common theme in the Q2 results released a couple weeks ago was the bite [...]
The huge amount of energy and water needed in the process to extract oil from sands has raised fears among scientists, environmentalists and government officials. Critics are quoted as saying: The oil sands operations will increase greenhouse gas emissions and threaten Alberta’s rivers and forests. For full story, click here
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