Demand for oil will peak by 2030 – BP chief
GLOBAL demand for oil will peak within the next two decades, the chief executive of Europe's largest oil company has said. Tony Hayward of BP said the plateau would be reached between 2020 and 2030 as falling demand from developed countries balanced growing demand from developing nations.BP said it was the first time Mr Hayward had put a date on peak demand, following a range of predictions from other bodies. His comments also suggest Mr Hayward now thinks the peak will come earlier than he had previously thought.Mr Hayward was reported last summer as saying: "I don't see it coming anytime in the near future. One day the world will stop demanding oil, but it is decades away in all likelihood. "More than 60 per cent of the world's energy needs in 2050 will still come from fossil fuels."
Russia boasts 100% reserve replacement
Russia has fully replaced oil output with new reserves since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Natural Resources Minister Yuri Trutnev said today, as the world's top energy nation seeks to maintain record oil output levels. Trutnev said in a statement Russian oil reserves as of 1 January were equal to the reserves of 1990. About 51.3 billion barrels produced since then had been fully replaced with new reserves, he said.
U.K Says ’No Doubt’ on Falklands After Argentina Row
The U.K. rejected a protest by Argentina over a decision by Falkland Oil & Gas Ltd. to start drilling a well in waters surrounding the islands that the two countries fought a war over in 1982. “The Falkland Islands government is entitled to develop a hydrocarbons industry in its waters and there is a long-standing policy to support this,” a spokesman for the U.K. Embassy in Buenos Aires, who wouldn’t be named citing government policy, said today. “We have no doubt about our sovereignty over the Falklands Islands and the surrounding maritime area.”Falkland Oil & Gas and partner BHP Billiton Ltd. expect to begin drilling in their Toroa offshore field in April, Chief Executive Officer Tim Bushell said in an interview last month. The company will drill in water 600 meters (1,970 feet) deep using a rig leased from Desire Petroleum Plc, Bushell said.
Oil Trades Little Changed Near $77 Before U.S. Inventory Report
Crude oil was little changed near $77 a barrel in New York before a report that may show U.S. supplies of distillate fuels such as heating oil shrank last week. The U.S. Energy Department is likely to report a 1.15 million-barrel reduction in U.S. distillate stockpiles for the week ended Jan. 29, according to a Bloomberg News survey. OPEC probably won’t change oil-production quotas at its meeting next month, group Secretary-General Abdalla el-Badri said yesterday.“All eyes are back on U.S. fuel inventories today and we expect a small draw in distillates,” said Andrey Kryuchenkov, an analyst with VTB Capital in London. “There’s no point in OPEC doing anything, as prices are okay for most members, while hiking output would oversupply the market.”
Gasoline Poised to Rise Past $2.19 a Gallon: Technical Analysis
Natural Gas Advances for Third Day on Forecasts of Cold Weather
Natural gas futures rose for a third day as cold weather was forecast to cover the eastern two-thirds of the U.S. next week and boost demand for the heating fuel.Below-normal temperatures will stretch from the Rockies, south to Texas and east to New York between Feb. 8 and Feb. 17, forecasters said. More than half of U.S. households rely on natural gas for heat. “We’re getting the cold-weather pop, which is increasing demand expectations,” said Phil Flynn, vice president of research at PFGBest in Chicago.Natural gas for March delivery rose 5.3 cents, or 1 percent, to $5.507 per million British thermal units at 9:08 a.m. on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Futures have gained 22 percent in the past year.
IPCC flooded by criticism
Reggelről maradt. Kicsit módosítom.
Közérdekű bejelentés: áldozatos munkám terepre szólít, ezért a mai világhír-válogatás nagyjából délután 5-kor kerül publikálásra. Talán kicsit előbb, de ez nem ígéret.
Felhívás: tudom, hogy lusták vagytok, és azon a nézeten vagyok, hogy aki nem dolgozik, ne is egyék. Ha tehát addig is akartok híreket olvasni, ameddig én nem írom ide őket, akkor kommenteljétek be őket, segítsetek egymáson (ezáltal magatokon is). Ez így (is) működik. Remekül lehet ám beszélgetni róluk... feltéve, hogy betesztek valamit 5-ig. Ha nem, akkor majd pótolom. De ne okozzatok [nagy] csalódást! :-)
Addig nézegessétek ezt a hírt itt. Miféle válság?
Bank of America Said to Pay Bankers Average Bonus of $400,000
Bank of America Corp., the nation’s largest lender, will pay investment-banking employees bonuses of about $4.4 billion for last year, or an average of $400,000 each, a person close to the bank said.
Ide majd írni fogok. Nem fogok.
Bank of America, the target of political wrath for its acquisition of Merrill Lynch & Co. even as the faltering Wall Street firm handed out $3.6 billion of employee bonuses, reaped a $6.3 billion profit in 2009. This year’s investment bank bonuses are a third less than $6.5 billion that the combined units would have paid in the peak year of 2006, the person said, citing internal Bank of America calculations.
“Those numbers sound like the kind of numbers we’d expect to be hearing from Wall Street firms,” said Steven Hall, managing director of New York-based Steven Hall & Partners, an executive compensation consulting firm.The Financial Times cited unidentified people as saying that top Bank of America performers in global banking and markets will receive bonuses of about $5 million, while managing directors will get $2.5 million to $3 million.
Ide is írni fogok. Ide sem fogok. Megyek edzésre, este fél 10 előtt ne számítsatok még a hibák kijavítására sem. Úgyhogy gyakorlatilag véget ért a móka mára.
Pápá.