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Some emergent countries have put a lot of effort to find new reservoir or find the best way to recover oil from deep seas such as The pre-salt in Brazil. America has high projections for the future with fracking. However, lower prices would put at risk investments in unconventional sources. For example, tar sands, shale oil, deep sea and fracking. Our forecast is that the crude oil price tend to slowly rise until the market balance it self to avoid oversupply especially because of the weakening in the global oil

Reagan Moore Martinez Macro Economics June 30, 2013 Oil and Gasoline Prices in the US Oil and gasoline prices follow a trend that sparks mixed reactions from different industry stakeholders in the America’s economy. The trends on oil and gasoline and their stability have immense impact on the performance

Introduction Since the global economic crisis happened in 2008, it had a severe impact on the worldwide economy. Many countries experienced a great recession for a long time period, which made hundreds of thousands of people lost their jobs, large number of firms failed to pay back the loan and many

The oil price collapse between June 2014 and January 2015 was the third largest of the past 30 years and was driven by a combination of few conditions. (Kose, Ohnsorge, Stocker, 2015). It fell by about 50 percent between those periods and consisted of several phase. Initially, in June 2014, the oil price of Brent oil drops from $110 per barrel to $80 per barrel before the OPEC meeting in late November. The second phase of oil price drop occur in the early of January 2015, where oil price drops to below $50 per barrel. This drop however was recovered slightly on May 2015, when oil price rise to about $65 per barrel. After the OPEC meeting, the price of oil was adjusted rapidly to about $70 to $75 per barrel, and have remained between this price value until January 2015 (Husain, Arezki, Breuer, Haksar, Helbling, Medas, Sommer, and an IMF Staff Team, 2015). (Figure 1) (See Apendix A for more information regarding oil price drop)

The modern world of today runs on fossil fuels with crude oil being the live blood of industrialized countries. Though much of the twentieth century old was plentiful easily acquired and low in cost it has only been in the past thirty years that we have seen oil prices rise substantially. This can be attributed to many different reason. These price changes have challenged the industrialized world to become more creative with their techniques of both acquiring oil and using it.

Joshua Akwaboah Microeconomics for Business Professor Nicholas Bergan The term paper is about the oil industry, which is a very important topic to people who study economics, how supply and demand are affected, controlled, and can be manipulated through its pricing strategies. Oil is a scarce commodity that is extracted from deep in the

Oil Prices impact on Japanese Economy In mid-2014, the general oil prices started to decline due to the slump in oil prices in global market. Oil prices dropped from over $100 per barrel to lower than $30 in early 2016 due to different factors. Firstly, the new and unconventional energy resources such as shale oil and shale gas discovered in Texas and North Dakota which created a new glut in oil supply. In addition, OPEC members failed to agree on the supply cap which reduced the prices further down.

A collapse in demand for oil resulting from sharply declining global economic activity could cause oil prices to fall, as happened in late 2008. Indeed, this is a fairly likely possibility. But while it would make oil cheaper, it would not make fuel more affordable to most people. It is theoretically possible for the world to curb oil demand through policies that limit consumption, and it is also conceivable that some unexpected technological breakthrough could rapidly result in a cheap, effective alternative to petroleum. However, these latter two developments are rather improbable. Thus there is no likely scenario in which the services provided by oil will become more affordable within the context of a stable global economy at any time in the foreseeable future.

1(a) Explain the key demand side drivers of price for oil. In recent years, the fluctuations of oil prices have gotten the attention of the whole world. From $20s in 2003, it hit a mid-term peak of $148 in mid 2008, then fell to $30 during early 2009, and now back to $70-$80. Economic principles have demonstrated that the rise of oil price is a function of lack of supply and greater demand. We know that oil is lack of supply since there’s no major oil field found in the last 40 years and oil can’t be made within decades. However, the following conundrum has not been resolved: What are the key demand side drivers of price for oil? The price of oil depends on a variety of factors which leads to the increase of price. In summary,

Overview Over the past year oil prices have dropped significantly. This is mainly due due to an increase in technology, which has allowed for a significant increase in the production of oil. The United States whose top import is Oil has started to produce more oil domestically. Oil prices have dropped from $110 a barrel of WTI to a whopping $41. This reduction in the demand for oil would usually curb supply, but many countries are afraid to curb supply incase of loosing market power. Another reason prices are dropping is people are being more environmentally conscious and reducing there oil use. In recent years we have seen many alternative fuel sources introduced into the market and people seem to gain utility from “going green” even if it cost more. The reduction in oil prices is heavily affecting economies that are reliant on oil exports. Oil prices, which continue to drop, are negatively affecting the GDP of countries who are reliant on oil exports. This drop in prices is can be simply by supply and demand there is most evidently a higher supply of oil then demand has brought prices down. Since the oilrigs have already been drilled countries rather sell oil at a loss then not sell any oil at all, so that some of the money can be recovered. This means countries are choosing not to curb the supply but continue to produce even though the market price is so low.

Couple years ago, oil prices dropped around fifty percent, at the high of $115 a barrel in June 2014 to a low $57 earlier this year in January. (Rich, 2017, para 1.) The price fell because of the slow world economy, leading to less demand for oil than what was

Energy resources are essential for national security, technological development, overall contemporary life style, etc. In this respect, oil is the main source for worldwide economy. Peak oil would imbalance countries' economical situations and may lead to a chain reaction with negative effects on multiple layers. Evidently, there is mutual interest to prevent such a thing from happening but the possibility is nevertheless considered. OPEC's initial goal to ensure stable prices on petroleum markets in order to avoid any negative fluctuations did not always correspond. The organization actually favored inflation more than in one occasion but its influence in controlling oil prices dropped considerably since 1973. It was proven that, having quadrupled the price of oil, OPEC had in its hands the power to inflict economic hurt on the rich countries. (Beenstock 2007, p. 134) Although OPEC does not completely control the oil market today, it nevertheless continues to be influent because its decisions to reduce production may lead to either a decrease or increase of oil prices. OPEC's existence is dependent on the future of oil. Whether or not oil will dominate as the main energetic source for worldwide economy will decide its future. Considering that OPEC's oil has been a vital source of energy during the last half of century, (Khusanjanova 2011, p. 19) and that oil is expected to play a similar role within the next century, we can assume the organization will at least maintain its

Introduction The IEA found that 59% of all primary energy consumption is from oil and natural gas. In the US and Europe reserves of crude oil peaked in the 1970’s and since then with only few notable exceptions extraction has outstripped additions to reserves. Oil is an exhaustible and finite resource,

Oil has become the means of survival for both consumers and producers. Consequently, the fluctuations in the price of oil have become one of the greatest concerns in the economy. According to Branginskii, ‘the market of energy carriers, primarily oil, are a great threat to world economy. Lack of clarity with crude oil prices

Analysis future demand of OPEC oil Introduction OPEC consists of oil producing countries, and a survey conducted in the year 2008 revealed that OPEC accounts for 58% of the globe's crude oil products. This has contributed to growth of its member states to becoming the world's rapidly growing consumers of