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Oil Prices Approach Historic High
Posted: Aug 12, 2006 |Comments: 0
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It has been announced that British Petroleum had to shut down an Alaskan oil field providing 8% of US crude oil production. Oil prices on the world market immediately surged to within pennies of their all-time high. What’s really going on? For an answer I look back to former President Richard Nixon. Privately Nixon who was smart, and as shrewd a man as any President in history use to talk to his friends about if there is a dollar to be made somewhere, than somebody is making it.
It does seem strange that for two consecutive years, the large multinational oil companies have had greater earnings, and free cash flow than in any period in history. At the same time, giant British Petroleum is clueless that they have corroded pipes that are about to take down 8% of America’s oil production. There is a dis-connect here of massive proportions, and nobody is thinking about it.
We all know the airlines are suffering. When you are hemorrhaging money, and the revenue just isn’t coming in, it’s really tough for a company financially to maintain the maintenance programs that are vital to keep an airplane flying. This however is not the situation that British Petroleum or the other major multinationals find themselves in. The oil companies are PRINTING MONEY. They don’t call oil “BLACK GOLD” for nothing.
Why would any oil company choose to skimp on maintenance? Why would BP be this dumb in their managerial policies? They have allowed a massive, and important pipeline to experience corrosion to the point where it has to be shut down? Listen up, when airlines fly a 747 airplane; each and every plane has to have its oil changed every so many miles or hours. The engines have to taken off the plane, and rebuilt every so many miles or flight hours. This is why planes are far more reliable than cars. The airlines make sure that this maintenance gets done or the Federal Aviation Agency will shut them down, no questions asked.
The President of the United States tours the world in Air Force One, which is a glorified version of a 747. The President actually has two of these planes identical to one another.
The President’s planes are put on what’s called a “White Glove” maintenance program. What this means is that the manufacturer, in this case Boeing wants the oil changed, and the engines ripped down every so flight hours. There are also scores of other items that must be done as well. Whatever the schedule is for whatever procedure, White Glove maintenance means the schedule is chopped in half. If Boeing wants an engine ripped apart every 500 hours, for Air Force One it’s every 250 hours.
What’s British Petroleum’s excuse for not maintaining the pipeline in a period of unprecedented earnings power, and monstrous unrestricted FREE CASH FLOW? It’s certainly not stupidity. I have been involved with oil and oil stocks since 1978, and I am telling you that the people in the oil business are some of the smartest people on earth. Do you know how much oil a supertanker holds? These tankers can hold up to 2 million barrels (that’s barrels, not gallons) of oil. The typical loss or spillage loading, and unloading a 2 million barrel tanker is no more than ONE TEASPOON of crude, that’s how efficient these processes are.
It is unthinkable that a modern management team would allow a segment of the Alaskan pipeline to corrode. Corrosion is like metal fatigue in a helicopter. You don’t wait for metal fatigue to become critical before dealing with replacing parts on helicopters. Today’s chemical engineers know exactly how long it takes a pipe to corrode. The oil industry has more PhD chemical engineers than any industry on earth, and these guys are not asleep at the switch. It is up to you the reader to figure out how this happened, or could have been permitted to happen?
Oil is priced at the margin. This means, today’s price is determined by the price of the last barrel that needs to be sold. It is not an average price, it is a marginal price. We are right now at the cusp of where demand equals supply. Even if you could bring another ten million barrels onto the market daily, we don’t have the refining capacity to refine it. The last refinery in this country was built in the 1970′s.
The Wall Street Journal reported in its cover story of August 8, 2006, that the oil industry “….has been stymied in putting in ….new refineries, by intense public opposition”. This is absolutely untrue. I have not met an oil man (including CEO’s of the majors) in the last ten years, who has expressed any interest whatsoever in creating a new refinery in this country. Big oil doesn’t want to create new refineries.
As far as our leadership in Washington DC is concerned, this country has not had an oil policy in 30 years, thank you very much. If anything, America’s policies on oil, have been dictated by oil lobbyists paid to do oil’s bidding. The oil companies are not responsible for the high price of oil. OPEC sets the price, and big oil just tacks on their piece, and oh what a piece.
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Richard Stoyeck’s background includes being a limited partner at Bear Stearns, Senior VP at Lehman Brothers, Kuhn Loeb, Arthur Andersen, and KPMG. Educated at Pace University, NYU, and Harvard University, today he runs Rockefeller Capital Partners and http://StocksAtBottom.com http://www.stocksatbottom.com
BP Parody/Satire: British Petroleum’s CEO Tony Hayward defends BP’s role in “tiny leak” in Gulf of Mexico, according to this exclusive coverage of a press briefing by BP Spokesperson Kevin Nalts. Hayward, who remains CEO as of this evening’s press conference, is faring well despite the impact on him emotionally and financially. However BP is taking full responsibility for the event, despite the fact that petroleum is a natural element that might likely leak into the ocean under other circumstances. For more, see this account (not mine) www.twitter.com ** Note: No permission required to use clip. Public domain & satire/parody. Original script (cut and wandered from it yesterday): I’m Kevin Nalts, BP Spokesperson. I’d like to make a brief statement on behalf of BP CEO Tony Hayward. These statements will be documented through wall posts we upload on our Twitter account: BPGlobalPR. For those of you new to “Bitty Spill” (also called “Deepwater Horizon” by those not employed by BP)… a tiny amount of natural liquid petroleum found naturally on planet Earth is leaking into the Gulf of Mexico. We at BP accept full accountability for this unfortunate situation because we happen to be drilling near the location… we wish not to blame the planet, the government’s lack of oversight, or the good people of New Orleans who GOD knows have already faced enough I’m sure we’d agree. We don’t even blame Halliburton, who built the well casing, or Transocean who owns it… with BP just …
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@adamonmind u fail sir.
fake
Not funny….kind of stupid…..boooorrrrrriiiiiing .
Sorry to see your hair transplant failed, nalts! Hope you’re still a happy guy!
LOL “we wish not to blame The Planet, or the governments lack…”
this was on Sobongo
@FFVXlllNoctis1 way to go you boner
@FFVXIIINoctis1 I agree 100%. I mean there’s no babies getting their throats slashed, no black people tap dancing, no mexicans jumping around in bean costumes, and no sandy vag cunts telling us what’s funny/ok to make fun of and what isn’t! Whoohoo! BUCK UP PUCKY BOY! AND FUCK THE EARTH! HAIL THE ALL MIGHTY FLTING SPAGHETTI MONSTER! ALA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i dont think this is funny at all ,a thing like that , that ruined our oceans isint even funny in a parody to me
Ive seen all your vds you suck
I like how you spilled a little bit of water out of your water bottle. Nice touch.
Yeah guys, it’s not funny that people died in this incident, and it’s not funny that jerks are ruining the planet, but that doesn’t mean a parody of those jerks can’t be funny. Jeez, lighten up.
“in bad taste” would’ve been if they made fun of the victims. but this is just satire. making fun of absurdity like BP’s lifts the mood in spite of what they’ve done and points out how NOT to act.
LOL I’m going back to Charles Trippy. He’s at least real.
This guy is a prize cunt.
The papers thats on his clipboard is filled with porn which is why he’s constantly looking at them XD
This is done in poor taste. Thumbs down.
@smadaoeht
Yes, I get that. It’s not the fault of U.K., the nation, or all of the people from the U.K. It’s just the fault of B.P. & Deepwater Horizon; both the company & the employees. The responsible party must be held accountable, and that party is not nearly as big as any nation ( I get that it’s not the U.K.’s people), it’s just …
a company.
@Copper4head It’s not the UK’s fault anyway. t’s the fault of the American citizens who worked at the rig, and BP, Who are in no way related to the UK Government, and a lot of major figures in BP are in fact American.
That accent wasn’t very good…
people died in this incident, so its not funny
@dupsacque
How is that, again?
Tony Haywood got the axe.
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