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Microcap & Penny Stocks : Green Oasis Environmental, Inc. (GRNO)
GRNO 0.00Nov 13 4:00 PM EST

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To: Charles A. King who wrote (10496)3/23/1999 8:39:00 AM
From: Charles A. King  Read Replies (1) of 13091
 
Here is an old article that explains why Norway is cooperating with OPEC. Incidently, I don't know what happened to the extra 100,000 bpd that Norway announced it would cut. It just seems to have gone away, but that's OK as long as the rest hold the line.

Sunday, January 17, 1999 Published at 17:43 GMT

North Sea oil crisis

It costs more to produce a North Sea barrel than it can
be sold for

Nearly three quarters of the North Sea's
prospective new oil fields are uneconomic,
according to a British oil expert.

Professor Alexander Kemp has told the BBC's
Money Programme that at current world oil
prices of around $10 a barrel, only 12 of the 40
new fields he has studied can pay their way.

Oil prices have ben severely depressed by the
slowdown in the world economy since the Asian
crisis and the inability of the Opec producer
nations to prevent an oversupply on world
markets.

In real terms oil prices are at their lowest level in
50 years. It is estimated that 380,000 jobs
depend directly or indirectly on the North Sea
oil fields. Thousands of job cuts have already
been announced by big and small oil
companies alike as a result of the downturn.

There has ben a big cutback in spending by oil
companies which are constantly downwardly
revising their spending plans on North Sea
projects, said Dr Larry Farmer, president of oil
industry equipment supplier Brown and Root.

Despite a cost-cutting program by North Sea
producers, average costs were thought to be
$12 a barrel recently - $2 above the selling
price. But Crine, a cost-cutting body in the
industry says the true costs are even higher, at
$14.

This is likely to to prove a further deterrent to
already declining North Sea investment and the
production at the oilfields is expected to fall
away much faster than previously expected.

news.bbc.co.uk

Charles
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