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       Re: Fossil Fuel Profits Getting Eaten Alive by Renewable Energy!
       By: AGelbert Date: February 11, 2016, 1:42 pm
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       [center]Coalition airstrike destroys Islamic State oil and gas
       plant in Syria (with video)[/center]
       The Combined Joint Task Force released two videos on Wednesday
       showing a coalition airstrike destroying an oil and gas plant in
       Syria controlled by Islamic State.
       The black-and-white videos shows aerial footage of a Combined
       Joint Task Force airstrikes destroying the Daesh gas and oil
       plant near Dayr Az Zawr, Syria on February 2.
       The strike was intended to “disrupt and destroy” illicit oil
       production at the plant, according to the video.
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       The attack was just one of four airstrikes conducted against
       ISIL by coalition forces in Syria on February 2, according to
       the Combined Joint Task Force.
       The strikes were conducted as part of Operation Inherent
       Resolve, the coalition’s operation to eliminate the ISIL in
       Iraq, Syria and the wider international community.
       The Combined Joint Task Force has estimated that Islamic State
       earns about two-thirds of its revenues through oil production,
       Business Insider said.
       Although it’s difficult to determine exactly how much oil IS
       produces, the group was believed to control at least 60 percent
       of Syria’s production capacity in late 2015, according to CNBC.
       [quote]Syrian oil production has “essentially ceased”  ;) since
       ISIS and its affiliates began taking over the country’s
       oilfields in 2014, according to the U.S. Energy Information
       Administration.[/quote]
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       Agelbert NOTE: I guess the worldwide oil glut [I](EIA: U.S.
       crude inventories above 500 million barrels for first time
       ever.)[/I] threatening the profits of the "coalition" has
       nothing to do with destroying facilities that were known to the
       "coalition" OVER A YEAR AGO when they just could not find, for
       some reason, these facilities until the Russians began "taking
       care of business".
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       #Post#: 4478--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Fossil Fuel Profits Getting Eaten Alive by Renewable Energy!
       By: AGelbert Date: February 11, 2016, 2:42 pm
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       [quote author=MKing link=topic=6489.msg97286#msg97286
       date=1455201367]
       [quote author=RE link=topic=6489.msg97281#msg97281
       date=1455193139]
       Newz Flash.  This isn't the early 90s, its a quarter century
       later.
       [/quote]
       Correct. The 90's in the oil business was after a worse crash,
       dating back to 1986.
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       In a few years, when the boomers are shaken out, debt recycled
       through the bankruptcy courts, when the dead weight workers have
       moved on to window and car sales, and the existing production
       taken over by those who know how to do the business when it is
       work, hard, day in and day out, work, THEN it will be like the
       90's.
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       We haven't even hit the big shake out/bankruptcy/mergers phase
       yet.  [/quote]
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       Hey MKing, in the 1980's, low oil prices crashed renewables. YOU
       have been predicting REPEATEDLY here that the SAME "supply and
       demand" mechanism will work for your oil pig pals again today.
       You are wrong. Amory Lovins is right.
       [quote]
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       />who claimed low oil prices would crash renewables (other than
       biofuels) were wrong.
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       Oil companies since 1860 and electric utilities since 1892 have
       sold energy commodities—molecules or electrons—rather than the
       services customers want, such as illumination, mobility, hot
       showers, and cold beer. This business model means that when
       customers use the energy commodity more efficiently to produce
       the service they want, the provider loses revenue, not cost.
       That’s bad for both electric utilities and hydrocarbon
       companies, because most (and for oil, ultimately all) of the
       commodity they sell can be displaced by far cheaper energy
       productivity.
       Over the past 40 years, Americans have saved 31 times as much
       energy as renewables added. Those cumulative savings are
       equivalent to 21 years’ current energy use.  They’re simply
       invisible: you can’t see the energy you don’t use. But globally,
       it’s a bigger “supply” than oil, and inexorably, it’s going to
       get much, much bigger.
       Oil companies worry about climate regulation, but they’re even
       more at risk from market competition. The oil that’ll be
       unburnable for climate reasons is probably less than the oil
       that’ll be unsellable because efficiency and renewables can do
       the same job cheaper. An oil business that sputters when oil’s
       at $90 a barrel, swoons at $50, and dies at $30 will not do well
       against the $25 cost of getting U.S. mobility—or anyone else’s,
       since the technologies are fungible—completely off oil by 2050.
       That cost, like the $18 per saved barrel to make U.S.
       automobiles uncompromised, attractive, cost-effective, and
       oil-free, is a 2010–11 analytic result; today’s costs are even
       lower and continue to fall.
       In short, like whale oil in the 1850s, oil is becoming
       uncompetitive even at low prices
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       />before it became unavailable even at high prices.    ;D
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       Re: Fossil Fuel Profits Getting Eaten Alive by Renewable Energy!
       By: AGelbert Date: February 12, 2016, 7:13 pm
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       [center] Maersk Drilling Sees Rig Overcapacity Lasting for
       ‘Foreseeable Future’  ;D [/center]
       February 11, 2016 by Reuters
       OSLO, Feb 11 (Reuters) – As much as one third of the global
       offshore fleet of oil drilling rigs could be idled in 2016 as
       energy firms scale back investments on the back of weak crude
       prices, the head of Danish conglomerate A.P. Moller-Maersk’s rig
       unit said on Thursday.
       “I would probably estimate that we have in 2016 between 25
       percent to one third of the fleet suffering from idle times,”
       Maersk Drilling Chief Executive Claus Hemmingsen told Reuters.
       “The current outlook for the oil companies bringing new projects
       to the market is very uncertain and not very optimistic … there
       will be oversupply in the foreseeable future,” he added.
       Shares of some independent rig owners such as Norway’s Seadrill
       have dropped by more than 90 percent in the last two years as
       the price of crude plunged by around three quarters.
       (Reporting by Ole Petter Skonnord, writing by Terje Solsvik,
       editing by Gwladys Fouche)
       (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2016.
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       Re: Fossil Fuel Profits Getting Eaten Alive by Renewable Energy!
       By: AGelbert Date: February 12, 2016, 7:23 pm
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       [center]IEA: Crude supply, demand gap widening in 2016     [img
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       SNIPPET:
       The International Energy Agency said Tuesday that it expects the
       gap between global crude supply and demand to widen further this
       year as OPEC continues to ramp up production.
       The IEA said in its February Oil Market Report that it expects
       global oil demand growth to “ease back considerably” this year
       to 1.2 million barrels per day, down from a five-year high of
       1.6 million bpd in 2015.
       The decline is primarily driven by slowing demand in Europe,
       China and the United States.
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       Agelbert Note: Yes Virginia there is a MAD SCAMBLE
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       going on
       among oil pigs
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       />to contract floating storage, no matter what you may have hear
       d
       to the contrary.  ;)
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       Re: Fossil Fuel Profits Getting Eaten Alive by Renewable Energy!
       By: AGelbert Date: February 12, 2016, 9:21 pm
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       [center]U.S rig count plummets by 48 in big fall[/center]
       &#61447;Staff Writers  &#61463;February 11, 2016
       
       The U.S. rig count plummeted by 48 rigs last week, one of the
       largest weekly declines since the rig count began falling in
       late 2014.
       According to Baker Hughes, the number of oil and gas rigs fell
       to 571 rigs as of February 5 after shedding 48 rigs, a
       significant drop from the 1,456 rigs operating during the same
       week last year.
       The majority of the decline was tied to a 37 rig drop in the oil
       rig count that pushed the number of U.S. oil rigs down to 467
       from 1,140 rigs a year ago.
       The U.S. gas rig count fell to 104 after losing 17 rigs while
       the horizontal rig count sank by 29 to 458 rigs compared to
       1,088 rigs last year.
       The directional drill count dropped by five rigs to 53 and the
       vertical rig count slid down by 14 to 60 rigs.
       Texas once again posted the largest rig count drop of any major
       state after losing 19 rigs last week, with four of those rigs
       drops coming from the Eagle Ford basin and two rigs being
       dropped in the Permian Basin.
       Oklahoma posted an eight rig loss and Louisiana lost five rigs
       last week.
       Drillers in Pennsylvania shed three rigs while North Dakota,
       Utah and Wyoming each lost two rigs.
       Ohio booked a one rig loss last week.
       Rig counts in Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Kansas,
       New Mexico and West Virginia held steady from the previous week.
       The Williston Basin, home of the Bakken shale play, saw its rig
       count fall to 42 after a two rig drop, a significant decline
       from the 137 rigs operating in the basin last year.
       The Marcellus Basin lost three rigs last week and the Utica
       Basin shed one rig.
       The Gulf of Mexico saw its rig count slide down to 26 rigs after
       a two rig loss.
       Canada’s rig count jumped to 242 rigs after adding six gas rigs
       and five oil rigs but was still shy of the 381 rigs drilling in
       the same week of last year.
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       Re: Fossil Fuel Profits Getting Eaten Alive by Renewable Energy!
       By: AGelbert Date: February 15, 2016, 1:48 pm
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       [center]Warning to Fossil Fuel Investors: Coal and LNG Markets
       Shrinking Due to Competition From Renewables
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       Paul Brown, Climate News Network | February 15, 2016 10:39 am
       Investors in fossil fuels are being warned that they may risk
       losing their money, because the markets for coal and liquefied
       natural gas are disappearing.
       In both cases it is competition from renewables, principally
       wind and solar power, that is being blamed for the threat. The
       cost of electricity from renewables continues to fall in Europe
       and Asia as the numbers of wind and solar installations grow in
       both continents, cutting demand for imported gas and coal.
       Two separate reports on coal and gas were published at the same
       time as a round of annual financial reports from oil companies
       showed that this third fossil fuel could be in serious trouble
       too.
       Despite massive cutbacks on exploration and development,
       companies like Shell and BP still need a price of US$60 a barrel
       by the end of this year if they are to break even on many of
       their current projects—almost double the current market price.
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       Long Lead-Time
       Overproduction of coal, gas and oil spells trouble for investors
       in mines, pipelines, ports and the other infrastructure needed
       to transport fossil fuels round the globe. The cost of
       development requires a long lifetime for the equipment and a
       high long-term guaranteed price for the fuels if investors are
       to get their money back.
       The first report, Stranded Assets and Thermal Coal, found that
       Australian and U.S. coal assets were the most vulnerable.
       Australian mines were particularly at risk because of their
       heavy reliance on exporting coal to markets that were rapidly
       shrinking.
       Australia exports three times as much coal as it consumes
       locally, but two of the world’s largest markets for coal, India
       and China, are cutting imports. India’s imports fell by 34
       percent last year and China’s by 31 percent. Australia’s mines
       were also seen as high-risk because of environmental regulations
       and the widespread opposition to their development.
       U.S. coal assets were risky because of competition from cheap
       gas for the same markets. This meant exporting coal and
       competing in a world market where there is already a significant
       surplus.
       In the Dark
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       The report said company statements made it clear that investors
       were not being given the full picture of the risks from
       environmental regulation and policy.
       Many countries pledged in the Paris agreement reached last
       December to cut their coal use. If these pledges were kept, the
       report said, then much of the coal currently shown as an asset
       would have to be left in the ground.
       A separate report, on liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), also raises
       the possibility that investors may lose their money. The trade
       is based on the fact that gas is cheap in the U.S. and expensive
       in Europe, so the expense of liquefying it and transporting it
       to Europe is offset. Large investments are being made in the
       pipelines, ships and ports required to transport it.
       There are two problems outlined in the report, LNG and Renewable
       Power. The first is that the price of gas, which is tied to that
       of oil, has dropped in Europe, squeezing the margins of the
       companies that are spending large sums setting up the supply
       line.
       No Recovery
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       The second is that the market for gas is itself shrinking as the
       output of the solar panels and wind farms increases. Unless gas
       investors can see a long-term return from a stable market they
       will not make a profit and LPG becomes high-risk.
       Predictions on the future of fossil fuel investments all hinge
       on the price of oil. With big oil companies—and many
       countries—needing the current price to double to more than $60 a
       barrel to break even on their current investments. Everybody in
       the business believes it is only a matter of time before prices
       double again.
       Paul Spedding, former global co-head of oil and gas research at
       HSBC, an adviser to Carbon Tracker, said he believes the price
       of oil may never recover
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       />Structural changes in the energy markets, more efficient
       electric cars, batteries and hybrid solutions no longer favor
       oil. The European Union for example is already reducing its
       demand by 1.5 percent a year.
       Similar drops can be expected elsewhere as governments strive to
       meet their targets under the Paris agreement. If that happens,
       an oil surplus will become the new normal and investors in major
       oil companies will face a difficult future.  ;D
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       Agelbert Comment: Of course. It is refreshing to see that more
       and more people can add and subtract properly. Fossil fuel
       industries are Welfare Queens that have been propped up by
       subsidies. Renewable energy technologies would have eaten them
       alive long ago if the subsidies weren't keeping them from going
       bankrupt while they continue to pollute the biosphere. We need
       fossil fuels like a metastatic cancer.
       Renewable is the cheaper energy option without fossil fuel and
       hidden nuclear subsidies.
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       The Smart Money Is Going Green
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       [center]For you investors in fossil fuels that are losing your
       arse, all is not lost. Oil Rigs and infrastructure provide GREAT
       SCRAP IRON PROFIT opportunities.[/center]
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       Re: Fossil Fuel Profits Getting Eaten Alive by Renewable Energy!
       By: AGelbert Date: February 17, 2016, 7:51 pm
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       [center]Shake up at the top: Mexico president fires Pemex CEO,
       appoints cost cutter[/center]
       &#61447;Staff Writers  &#61463;February 17, 2016
       Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto fired Pemex CEO Emilio
       Lozoya on Monday as part of an effort to overhaul the
       state-owned oil company.
       According to Reuters, Lozoya will be replaced by Jose Antonio
       Gonzalez, who has served as the director of Mexico’s Social
       Security Institute since 2012.
       Gonzalez is planning to trim costs at the company as part of a
       broader effort to cut government spending that is being
       spearheaded by finance secretary Luis Videgaray, the Agencia EFE
       said.
       Gonzalez said that he plans to meet with union representatives
       to discuss possible cost cuts and added that a cost cutting plan
       may “not necessarily” have to include job cuts.
       According to Forbes, Pemex has seen its oil production dip 12
       percent from 2012 to 2015 while its net debt skyrocketed from
       $6.1 billion to $15 billion during the same period.
       Pemex booked a $20.75 billion net loss for the first nine months
       of 2015, a 138 percent jump over the same period in 2014, EFE
       said.
       The company has also dealt with a string of deadly accidents at
       its production and refinery facilities over the last year.
       Earlier this week, three workers were killed and at least seven
       others were injured after a blaze broke out on the Abkatun A
       Permanente processing platform in the Bay of Campeche, less than
       a year after seven people died during a fire at the same
       platform.
       Two workers died when a platform leg collapsed during
       maintenance work at the company’s shallow water Abkatun-Pol-Chuc
       oil field in the Bay of Campeche last May, just about six months
       after a fire at the Pemex operated Lazaro Cardenas refinery in
       Minatitlan killed five workers.
       Pemex is also contending with new private and international
       competition after Mexico’s government agreed in August to open
       up the country’s energy sector to private investment, ending the
       company’s 75 year monopoly.
       However, the country’s first ever oil and gas block auction for
       private and foreign investors was met with little enthusiasm in
       July, with only two of the 14 blocks on offer being picked up.
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       The government is hoping that tweaks to its tender contracts
       help attract more interest in its blocks.
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       Re: Fossil Fuel Profits Getting Eaten Alive by Renewable Energy!
       By: AGelbert Date: February 17, 2016, 8:06 pm
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       [center]Saudi Arabia, Russia agree to production freeze
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       &#61447;Staff Writers  &#61463;February 16, 2016
       
       Saudi Arabia and Russia reached a preliminary agreement on
       Tuesday to hold production at current levels as major oil
       producers consider ways to alleviate a global oil glut.
       According to Reuters, representatives from Saudi Arabia, Russia,
       Venezuela and Qatar reached the deal after meeting in Doha to
       discuss possible solutions to low oil prices.
       All four countries have agreed to hold output at January levels
       as part of the preliminary deal.
       However, the deal hinges on other producers signing on, a
       condition that may be complicated by Iran’s push to boost crude
       exports.
       Venezuelan Oil Minister Eulogio Del Pino told reports that he
       expects further talks to be hosted with Iraqi and Iranian
       officials later this week.
       Saudi Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi said he believes the production
       freeze would be an adequate measure to support prices and bring
       supply in line with demand, Reuters said.
       “The reason we agreed to a potential freeze of production is
       simple: it is the beginning of a process which we will assess in
       the next few months and decide if we need other steps to
       stabilize and improve the market,” Naimi told reporters.
       No timeline for implementing the production freeze has been
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       Iranian representatives were not present
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       for the Doha
       discussions and have not indicated that they will cooperate with
       any production freezes.
       Iran is hoping to boost production after striking a deal with
       Western powers that rolled back crude sanctions that had limited
       exports to about 1 million barrels per day since 2012.
       According to data provided by OPEC, Iran currently produces
       about 3.11 million barrels of crude per day.
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       Saudi Arabia saw production tick down by 50,000 bpd to 10.1
       million bpd in December, marking the ninth consecutive month the
       oil rich kingdom has pumped over 10 million bpd, according to
       Platts.
       Overall OPEC oil production fell by 130,000 bpd to 32.28 million
       bpd in December from 32.41 million bpd in November on lower
       production levels from Iraq, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia.
       Production figures for January have not been released yet.
       [quote]
       The International Energy Agency said earlier this month that
       even if OPEC production remains flat it still expects an implied
       stock build of 2 million bpd in the first quarter of 2016 and a
       1.5 million barrel per day build in the second quarter of 2016.
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       Re: Fossil Fuel Profits Getting Eaten Alive by Renewable Energy!
       By: AGelbert Date: February 18, 2016, 6:55 pm
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       Agelbert NOTE: Centrica is a Fossil Fuel Pig. The sooner they go
       bankrupt, the better.
       UK cuts: Centrica slashing another 3,000 jobs
       &#61447;Nicolas Torres  &#61463;February 18, 2016
       UK-based Centrica said Wednesday that it will cut another 3,000
       jobs as part of a broader cost cutting program.
       The company said it will reduce its direct headcount by about
       3,000 roles in 2016.
       Details about the layoffs have not been disclosed yet.
       Those cuts are in addition to the 2,000 role reductions Centrica
       previously announced.
       The layoffs are part of a $1.07 billion cost efficiency program
       that is on track to be completed by 2020.
       Centrica said it expects the program to deliver savings of about
       $287 million , or £200 million, in 2016 and said it also on
       track to deliver about $718 million in yearly savings by the end
       of 2018.
       The company reported $1.23 billion in full year adjusted
       earnings for 2015 on $40.23 billion revenues compared to $1.29
       billion in full year adjusted earnings on $42.24 in full year
       revenues in 2014.
       Centrica booked $2.09 billion in full year adjusted operating
       profit, a 12 percent year over year drop, and an adjusted
       operating cash flow of $3.23 billion, up 2 percent over the
       previous year.
       Chief executive Iain Conn said the company’s current projections
       indicate it can “more than balance sources and uses of cash flow
       out to 2018” at flat real commodity prices of $35 per barrel of
       Brent oil,  35p/therm UK NBP gas and £35/MWh UK power.
       “2015 provided a very challenging environment for Centrica.
       Commodity prices continued to fall during the year, creating
       major challenges for our E&P and nuclear power businesses… In
       addition, the actions we have taken since the start of 2015 on
       the dividend, capital expenditure and costs mean the Group is
       robust in this much lower oil and gas price environment,” Conn
       said.
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       expenditure further to the bottom end of its $574 to $861
       million range.
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       Re: Fossil Fuel Profits Getting Eaten Alive by Renewable Energy!
       By: AGelbert Date: February 18, 2016, 7:45 pm
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       [move][font=courier]Polluting NONbiodegradable Petroleum Based
       Plastics REPLACED by Fungi! [/font][/move]
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       [center]This is just one more step in the elimination of fossil
       fuels from human civilization.  ;D [/center]
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