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2021, May, 20, 14:10:00
OIL PRICE: ABOVE $65
Brent was down $1.40, or 2.1%, at $65.26 a barrel. WTI lost $1.12, or 1.7%, to $62.24 a barrel.
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2021, May, 20, 13:55:00
FUSION WILL BE READY
The Russian physicist Lev Artsimovich once said, “Fusion will be ready when society needs it.” Ideally, we would have solved fusion 30 years ago and today it would be ready to roll out. But conditions in the past weren’t right for fusion, and there wasn’t the right kind of drive or possibility for it.
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2021, May, 20, 13:30:00
U.S. OIL INVENTORIES UP 1.3 MB TO 486.0 MB
U.S. commercial crude oil inventories increased by 1.3 million barrels from the previous week to 486.0 million barrels.
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2021, May, 19, 14:55:00
OIL PRICE: NEAR $68 YET
Brent fell $1.08, or 1.5%, to $67.63 a barrel. WTI dropped $1.05 cents, or 1.6%, to $64.44 a barrel.
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2021, May, 18, 13:20:00
OIL PRICE: NEAR $70 YET
Brent fwas up 55 cents, or 0.8%, at $70.01. WTI was up 37 cents, or 0.6%, at $66.64.
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2021, May, 18, 13:00:00
U.S. PRODUCTION: OIL +26 TBD, GAS (-53) MCFD
Crude oil production from the major US onshore regions is forecast to increase 26,000 b/d month-over-month in June 2021 from 7,707 to 7,733 thousand barrels/day, gas production to decrease 53 million cubic feet/day from 83,624 to 83,571 million cubic feet/day .
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2021, May, 18, 12:55:00
LUKOIL PRODUCTION 2.1 MBD
In the first quarter of 2021 LUKOIL Group's average hydrocarbon production excluding the West Qurna-2 project was 2,152 thousand boe per day, which is 4.2% higher quarter-on-quarter.
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2021, May, 17, 11:50:00
OIL PRICE: NOT BELOW $68
Brent fell 21 cents, or 0.3%, to $68.50 a barrel. WTI eased 9 cents, or 0.1%, to $65.28.
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2021, May, 17, 11:15:00
U.S. RIGS UP 5 TO 453
U.S. Rig Count is up 5 from last week to 453, Canada Rig Count is up 4 from last week to 59.
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2021, May, 13, 18:00:00
OIL PRICE: NOT ABOVE $68
Brent was down $1.75, or 2.5%, at $67.57 a barrel. WTI was down $1.80, or 2.7%, to $64.28 a barrel.
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2021, May, 13, 17:55:00
GLOBAL OIL DEMAND WILL UP BY 6.0 MBD TO 96.5 MBD
For 2021, world oil demand is expected to increase by 6.0 mb/d, unchanged from last month’s estimate, to average 96.5 mb/d.
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2021, May, 13, 17:50:00
U.S. OIL INVENTORIES DOWN 0.4 MB TO 484.7 MB
U.S. commercial crude oil inventories decreased by 0.4 million barrels from the previous week to 484.7 million barrels,
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2021, May, 12, 13:05:00
OIL PRICE: NEAR $69
Brent climbed 18 cents, or 0.3% to $68.73 a barrel. WTI rose 20 cents, or 0.3%, to $65.48.
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2021, May, 12, 13:00:00
OIL PRICES 2021-22: $65-61
EIA forecasts that Brent prices will average $65/b in the second quarter of 2021, $61/b during the second half of 2021, and $61/b in 2022.
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2021, May, 12, 12:50:00
LIBYA'S OIL PRODUCTION 1.168 MBD
Libya pumped 1.12 million b/d in April, a fall of 70,000 b/d from March.