Deborah White
Deborah White
alone china demand exploding fire floor last lit market notices oil prices remembers sufficient
When the oil market notices that China is back, and remembers the fire that China's exploding oil demand lit under prices last year, the 'China factor' alone should be sufficient to floor near-term prices.
believing demand european ideas
He comes with European ideas on curbing demand and believing in Kyoto,
amount demand massive position quarter tricky
That's a massive amount of demand destruction. We could be in a very tricky position by the first quarter if the EIA is not right.
current demand evidence knows looking nobody trend whether
The current trend is demand destruction. Nobody knows whether that is right or not. We're looking for any evidence demand destruction is the case.
barrel bit boom bring crude demand economic economy fastest gave global growth happened market pay quite willing
The crude market and the global economy have been quite willing to pay $60 a barrel without harm. The only thing that has happened is that the economic boom that gave us the fastest economic growth in 25 years has slowed a little bit to bring demand back in line.
china countries demand gasoline playing report
The IEA report is very neutral. It is playing up the demand slowdown in China and 8 out of 9 OECD countries and down-playing the gasoline situation.
demand market might slowing spin talk worry
The IEA is doing what it can to talk the market down. The spin is don't worry too much, we've made this release, there might be another and demand is slowing down.
fair peers
It would be fair to say we are a little disappointed that some of our peers haven't participated,
facilities moment offshore oil patch production takes track
The storm's track at the moment takes it through a different patch of the offshore oil production facilities to Katrina,
consumers fix gasoline pay prepared price states time united worry
The United States doesn't have to worry about gasoline lines. But consumers need to worry about the price they pay this week. They should be prepared for a short-term shock. Only time can fix that.
crude despite flooding supply
Crude is still flooding in despite supply disruptions.
capacity crude heart problem
Crude is not the problem. The heart of the problem is how much refining capacity we have lost.
dare people price
People dare not price in the surpluses they see.
far hit houston less looked looks port though
Before, it looked as though it was going to hit Houston and Port Arthur. Now, it looks like it's going to hit Corpus Christi, which is less important as far as refining is concerned, and it's also more on the periphery of the platforms.