geht weiter, mein Auto und mein Heizöltank sagen Danke. Je tiefer der Ölpreis fällt, umso mehr neue, teure und zwingend erforderliche Ölprojekte werden verschoben (jedes Jahr müssen ca. 3,5 Mio Barrel/Tag Rohöl wegen "Alterung" der bestehenden post-peak-Ölfelder ersetzt werden) und der Grundstein für eine noch gewaltigere Ölpreishausse gelegt. Aber lassen wir erst einmal die Finanzkrise über uns rollen, die Ölkrise wird uns dann im ganzen nächsten Jahrzehnt auf Trab halten.
"OPEC CUTS GLOBAL OIL DEMAND FORECAST FOR 2008 LONDON (Dow Jones)--The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries Wednesday cut global oil demand figures for 2008 and 2009, and said demand for OPEC oil will fall sharply next year. The downgraded forecast reflects the global financial turmoil and may lend credence to calls by some OPEC members for production cuts. They say a recent drop in oil prices is proof that the market is oversupplied. The downgrade follows a similar cut in estimates by the International Energy Agency, which represents consuming countries, for 2008. In its October report, OPEC cut its global demand estimate by 330,000 barrels a day for 2008. It said oil demand growth would stand at 550,000 barrels a day in 2008 to an average of 86.5 million barrels a day. World oil demand growth for 2009 was revised down by 100,000 barrels a day. That implies a growth of 800,000 barrels a day to an average 87.2 million barrels a day. But the report said demand for OPEC crude in 2009 is expected to drop by 870,000 barrels a day to 31.1 million barrels a day. The group added that oil demand in countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is expected to shrink by 400,000 barrels a day next year. However, non-OECD oil demand growth is estimated to reach 1.1 million barrels a day, with most of the growth coming from China, the Middle East, and India. The group announced last month at its meeting in Vienna that its members will cut production by over 500,000 barrels a day over the next month to rein in excess crude."
Auch die Russen trifft der Ölpreisverfall hart, aber ich habe kein Mitleid mit den Wodkatrinkern:
"RUSSIA'S OIL OUTPUT DOWN 0.6% IN JANUARY-SEPTEMBER MOSCOW, October 15 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's crude oil output declined 0.6% year-on-year in January-September to 365 million metric tons (2.7 billion barrels), the country's top statistics body said on Wednesday. Russia's State Statistics Service said natural gas output in the reporting period grew 1.5% to 485 billion cubic meters."
"RUSSIA MAY NEED TO CUT 2009 SPENDING AMID FALLING OIL PRICES By Maria Levitov and Alex Nicholson Oct. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Russia, the world's biggest energy exporter, is facing shrinking government revenue as concern that the global economy may slip into recession pushes down oil prices. The price of Urals blend of crude fell to $68.71 a barrel today, the lowest level this year, after peaking at $142.50 a barrel in July. It has averaged $106.85 a barrel since the beginning of the year, according to Bloomberg data. The government is set to collect less money as revenue from energy exports grows at a slower pace and the central bank continues to spend its reserves to prop up the ruble amid global financial turmoil. Energy, including crude oil and natural gas, accounted for 73 percent of all exports to the Baltics and countries outside of the former Soviet Union through August. ``If the price keeps going down they will have to send the budget back to parliament looking for spending cuts,'' said Vladimir Tikhomirov, the chief economist at UralSib Financial Corp. in Moscow, in a phone interview today. ``Even in September the budget was still in surplus, so I don't think there is a really big threat in the next three months.'' The budget surplus amounted to 8.1 percent of gross domestic product, or 2.53 trillion rubles ($100 billion) in the first nine months of this year and the budget will break even next year if the price of Urals crude averages $70 a barrel, according to Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin. The government expects the price to average more than $90 this year. `Difficult' Future ``The next three years will be more difficult than this successful year,'' Kudrin warned lawmakers on Sept. 11 when he presented the budget. Annual government revenue growth, adjusted for inflation, will slow to 1.8 percent next year, compared with 13.8 percent this year, according to Kudrin. Budget spending will rise 12.2 percent in real terms in 2009. The average annual price of Urals blend of crude is unlikely to fall below $60 a barrel ``for a long time,'' Arkady Dvorkovich, an aide to President Dmitry Medvedev, said on Oct. 9. Russia supplies a quarter of Europe's gas consumption and European gas prices track the price of oil with a six to nine month time-lag. Russia's state-run gas export monopoly OAO Gazprom earned $44.8 billion in 2007 on natural-gas exports to Europe and expects to surpass that amount this year. High energy prices have helped the economy expand almost 7 percent a year on average over the last decade. The country was pushed to the edge of bankruptcy in 1998 when the oil price dropped to $10 a barrel and the government defaulted on $40 billion of debt and devalued the ruble. The ruble slid as much as 0.6 percent to 26.4094 per dollar, the weakest since Feb. 13, 2007, as the price of oil fell to this year's record low. It was at 26.3412 as of 12:01 p.m. in Moscow, from 26.2525 yesterday. ``Given the speed of global events it's hard to say when oil prices will stabilize,'' Tikhomirov said."
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