Articles Tagged "supply"

Shift in Refinery could hurt Valero

Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. said on Monday that a shift in refining from the Gulf of Mexico to the Midwest and Great Plains could hurt companies like Valero. Deutsche Bank said: Our thesis is that the decline in Mexican and Venezuelan heavy oil supply will be offset by the rise in Canadian heavy oil supply.  For full [...]

Dwindling supply of Oil in USA

Chevron has injected steam into the reservoirs, coaxing the sedimentary rock into giving up millions of barrels of thick and sticky heavy oil, which is difficult to retrieve using outdated technology. For full story, click here

Upgrader: July 14

By Duncan Sutherland – Exclusive to HeavyOilInvestingNews.com The provincial government of Alberta announced that it will invest $4 billion (CDN) of hydrocarbon royalties into carbon capture and storage technology. Ed Stelmach’s Conservative government will create two separate funds. The first will be used to “finance large projects to capture and store carbon dioxide emissions from [...]

Venezuela threatened to cut oil supplies to US

Venezuelan President Chavez threatened to cut oil supply to US, if US oil gian Exxon makes another successful attempt to freeze overseas financial accounts of Petroleos de Venezuela SA. Chavez was quoted as saying: If they freeze us, there’s no more oil for the United States, and the price of crude will go to $300 a [...]