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Posting ID: 3620381130Posted: 2013-02-15, 5:39PM PSTEdited: 2013-02-15, 5:39PM PSTemail to a friendSorry, I could not read the content fromt this page.
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Merkel party allies accuse Hollande of shaking EU
Merkel’s allies criticise Hollande after the French president says it is not for the European Commission to dictate the pace of reform in France
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Posting ID: 3620538077Posted: 2013-02-15, 7:18PM PSTEdited: 2013-02-15, 7:18PM PSTemail to a friendSorry, I could not read the content fromt this page.
Oil rises on signs U.S. economy still needs stimulus
(Photo: Julien Tromeur, Flickr)NEW YORK — The price of oil rose Thursday on indications that the U.S. economy still needs the Federal Reserve to maintain its current stimulus measures.
Benchmark oil for July delivery rose 48 cents to $93.61 a barrel. That marked a reversal of Wednesday’s sentiment, when oil fell $1.88 on concerns the Fed would taper it stimulus program.
The government said the economy grew at 2.4 percent in the first quarter, slightly slower than initially estimated. Also, the number of Americans seeking unemployment aid rose last week, a sign layoffs have increased.
That makes it more likely the Fed will continue buying $85 billion of bonds each month in an effort to keep interest rates low and encourage borrowing, lending and investing. That environment has helped make oil a more attractive investment than low-yielding options such as bonds.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Energy Department’s Energy Information Administration said the nation’s supply of oil rose last week by 3 million barrels to 397.6 million barrels, the highest level since the government started collecting the data in 1978. But gasoline supplies fell by 1.5 million barrels just ahead of the Memorial Day weekend. That was twice the drop analysts expected and indicated that demand picked up during what is considered the start of peak driving season.
On Friday, ministers from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries will meet in Vienna to discuss, among other things, production levels. But more complex issues also face OPEC, including the rise of shale oil production in the U.S. The Paris-based International Energy Agency says total production could top 9 million barrels a day by 2018, which would mean near self-sufficiency for the U.S. as well as significantly less dependence on OPEC imports.
Brent crude, a benchmark for many international oil varieties, fell 24 cents to $102.19 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange in London.
In other energy futures trading on Nymex:
— Wholesale gasoline rose 1 cents to $2.81 a gallon.
— Heating oil fell 3 cents to $2.84 per gallon.
— Natural gas shed 16 cents to $4.02 per 1,000 cubic feet.
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Posted: 2013-02-15, 6:31PM PSTEdited: 2013-02-15, 6:31PM PSTemail to a friendEnterprise Products to provide gasoline outlet
(Enterprise Products Partners)Enterprise Products Partners will transform two Texas docks into facilities that can send gasoline and other refined products overseas, aiming to capitalize on the nation’s transformation into a net exporter of the materials, the pipeline company said Thursday.
Houston-based Enterprise will transform a dock on the Houston Ship Channel and another in the Beaumont area into export facilities that can handle refined products. The docks will each be able to load 360,000 barrels per day of gasoline, diesel and other products onto ships headed to international markets, likely in South America and Europe, Enterprise spokesman Rick Rainey said.
With the move, Enterprise is hoping to capitalize on sweeping changes in the nation’s energy production and consumption, Rainey said.
Booming oil production from shale and other sources has prompted refineries along the U.S. Gulf Coast and elsewhere to ramp up operations. But at the same time, new vehicle standards issued by the Obama administration are forcing automakers to make more efficient cars that use less gasoline and diesel.
More: Enterprise Products profits rise as new projects launch
The result is declining fuel consumption in the United States at a time of increasing production of fuels from refineries.
The Enterprise facilities will provide a solution to the growing output of diesel and gasoline in the United States, Rainey said.
“There needs to be an outlet for those volumes,” he said.
The shift in U.S. fuel demand has been dramatic: In five years, the United States switched from a net importer of 1 million barrels per day of fuels to a net exporter in 2012 of 1 million barrels per day of refined products, according to Enterprise.
With domestic consumption expected to continue declining, more channels for exports will be needed, said Jason Stevens, an analyst for investment research firm Morningstar in Chicago.
“It’s a very savvy move on Enterprise’s part,” Stevens said. “The U.S. crude oil and refined products balances are shifting thanks to shale oil and exports of refined products will make increasing economic sense as the crude oil production volumes continue to grow.”
Exporter: U.S. poised to become a net energy exporter, Exxon Mobil forecasts
Enterprise would not disclose the cost for developing the new facilities, which will tap into an expanded storage network capable of retaining 12 million barrels of refined products. Those storage facilities take products from 10 Gulf Coast refineries, which have a combined output of about 3.3 million barrels per day, the company said.
To transform the docks, Enterprise will need to complete some dredging work and will modify equipment to handle refined products and larger vessels. Only the Houston Ship Channel site was in use, mainly for the shipping of natural gas liquids, Rainey said.
Enterprise expects the Beaumont facility to be completed in the first quarter of 2014, with the Houston Ship Channel site to be finished in the middle of 2014.
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Posting ID: 3620496657Posted: 2013-02-15, 6:51PM PSTEdited: 2013-02-15, 6:51PM PSTemail to a friendPreparing for hurricane season, 140 miles offshore
Saturday won’t be just another day for energy companies operating in the Gulf of Mexico.
It’s the start of the Atlantic hurricane season, kicking off six months of nail-biting as companies watch the weather forecasts to decide whether to shut in wells and pull their people off platforms.
BP, the largest oil and gas producer in the deep-water Gulf of Mexico last year, offered a glimpse into its hurricane planning Thursday.
BP operates four production platforms in the Gulf — Thunder Horse, Atlantis, Mad Dog and Na Kika — and holds interest in three non-operated hubs: Mars, Ursa and Great White.
“That brings challenges” during hurricane season, said Steve Benson, area operations manager for the Atlantis platform.
Each platform is like a small city, and the company can’t wait until the storm’s path is obvious to decide what to do.
“Our job is to anticipate … the strength of a storm and what actions we need to undertake,” Benson said.
That job takes place in a third-floor conference room in a building on the BP campus in West Houston, which Benson said becomes the crisis room when a storm is brewing.
He’s there, as is the company’s chief meteorologist, W. Edward Bracken, along with representatives from the different platforms and related contract operations.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration last week predicted between 13 and 20 named storms this year, seven to 11 of which will become hurricanes.
Once a tropical storm is brewing, Bracken determines which model is most likely to be accurate and how strong the storm is likely to be when it reaches key sites, as well as what the company can expect when it reaches onshore assets.
Predicting intensity is still difficult.
“We can never be very confident in intensity forecasts, so we always assume it will be more intense than forecast,” Bracken said.
Benson said preparations to secure the platform begin five to seven days before a storm is expected to hit.
The next step is to evacuate non-essential personnel, usually about 20 percent to 30 percent of those on the platform.
After that, work to shut in the well begins, a process that takes several days.
He said it can happen more quickly, but doing it more methodically helps when workers restart the well.
Shutting down production remotely is possible from a technical standpoint, Benson said, but BP still does it the old-fashioned way.
“I wouldn’t want to get on a plane if the pilot was in Las Vegas like a drone pilot,” he said. “It’s more than just flipping a switch” to shut in a well.
“It’s a very busy time in that last 24 hours.”
Once the well is shut in, the remaining workers are evacuated by helicopter and boat.
That’s usually 800 to 1,500 people and takes three days, Benson said.
He said he didn’t have an estimate on the cost of shutting in wells and evacuating platforms, “because we don’t have any choice. It’s not cheap.”
He said evacuation costs alone are probably $1 million or more, one way, “but we’ve got to get our people out.”
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Posting ID: 3620435852Posted: 2013-02-15, 6:13PM PSTemail to a friendInternational Customer Service Representative (Moreno Valley, CA )
Most importantly, the candidate is expected to participate in department functions including training sessions and meetings while also following protocol such as asking for a manager when needing assistance with a difficult customer.
-Native-level fluency in English
-Native-level fluency in one of the following languages: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese or Russian
-Computer Skills: Be able to type 30 WPM in English and one of the languages above
-Teamwork attitude and willing to work during graveyard and weekend hours
-Possess the legal right to work in the U.S. without sponsorship
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LPG tanker rates rising near record in U.S. shale surge
A deal signed in May 2013 between Exxon Mobil Corp. and Qatar Petroleum International would add a liquefied natural gas export terminal to the existing Golden Pass import terminal in the Port Arthur community of Sabine Pass.Record global trade in liquefied petroleum gas, a result of increasing U.S. energy independence, is driving up rates for hauling the fuel on tankers at a time when most commodity shipping is losing money.
Prices on the industry’s benchmark trade route rose 42 percent to $68.38 a metric ton this month, according to the Baltic Exchange in London. Costs to haul the fuel will exceed the record $81.64 set in 2008 by the end of the year, Miguel de Potter, chief financial officer of Exmar NV, the third-largest publicly listed owner, said in an interview. Shares of the owner of 26 LPG carriers will gain 11 percent in 12 months, according to the average of five analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg.
The U.S. is exporting a record amount of LPGs including propane and butane as it taps new energy reserves found in shale-rock formations. The surge in LPG shipping returns is spurring billionaire investors John Fredriksen and Wilbur Ross to build gas carriers. Rising rates contrast with losses for most of the merchant fleet because of a glut of capacity that Clarkson Plc, the biggest shipbroker, estimates is the worst in about three decades.
“This is a new trade that’s evolved,” said Knut Stangebye Olsen, an analyst at Lorentzen & Stemoco AS, an industry consultant in Oslo. “There’s a lot of shale production in the U.S., and they’re building pipelines, they’re building new terminals, so there are a lot of volumes.”
Maritime Routes
The cost to transport a ton of LPG on a very large gas carrier, or VLGC, jumped 72 percent since the start of January, according to the Baltic Exchange, which publishes rates on more than 50 maritime routes. Daily earnings for the vessels, which haul 44,000 tons of cargo, will average $28,000 this year, 7.7 percent more than in 2012, estimates RS Platou Markets AS, an Oslo-based shipbroker. The ships need about $24,000 to break even, according to Platou.
Shares of Antwerp, Belgium-based Exmar (EXM) climbed 9.9 percent to 8.45 euros in Brussels this year and will reach 9.40 euros in 12 months, the predictions show. The company will report net income of $58.9 million for 2013, 8.4 percent more than last year and following a $34 million loss in 2011, according to the mean of five analyst estimates. That contrasts with oil-tanker owners who lost a combined $27 billion since 2009, according to Intertanko, the industry’s biggest trade group.
Redeploying Vessels
Solvang ASA in Stavanger, Norway, has 16 LPG tankers, making it the biggest publicly traded LPG tanker operator by capacity. Its stock fell 11 percent this year on average daily trading volume of about 1,500 shares. Solvang is followed by Tokyo-based Nippon Yusen K.K. (9101), whose shares rose 39 percent to 280 yen this year. StealthGas Inc., based in Athens, has the greatest number of carriers and the company said in March it was deploying ships thousands of miles to the Americas to meet rising demand.
About 60 percent of LPG comes from natural-gas extraction and the rest from oil refining, according to the World LP Gas Association in Paris. Trade in the fuel, used in everything from cigarette lighters to plastics, will advance 6 percent to a record 71 million tons this year, according to Joachim Greig & Co., an Oslo-based shipbroker.
Propane costs $477 a ton in Texas, compared with $793 in Japan and $675 in northwest Europe, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The difference is spurring U.S. exports, which have a disproportionate effect on shipping rates because of the distances involved. A round trip to Tokyo from Houston can be as long as 36,000 miles, compared with 15,000 miles from Saudi Arabia to Japan and back, the industry’s benchmark route. That ties up tankers for longer, effectively reducing the capacity of the global fleet.
‘Fundamental Change’
Further gains in U.S. LPG exports that rose 33 percent to a record 71.9 million barrels last year may be hindered by delays in building new terminals and congestion at existing sites. The 54-mile Houston Ship Channel, the biggest waterway for U.S. energy exports, already receives more foreign vessels than any other U.S. port, according to the Army Corps of Engineers.
The gains in shipping rates also may be curbed by accelerating fleet growth. Capacity will expand 5.6 percent this year and 4.7 percent in 2014, compared with 1.7 percent in 2012, according to London-based Clarkson.
New vessels will arrive as economists predict weakening growth in the biggest consuming nations. Japan’s economy will slow in 2013 and for at least the next two years, the average of 46 economist estimates compiled by Bloomberg shows. The 17-country euro region’s recession extended to a record sixth quarter in the first three months of the year.
Product Tankers
The shale boom is also lifting demand for tankers hauling refined oil products. The U.S. shipped a record 745,000 barrels a day of gasoline and products such as naphtha and benzene that are blended to make the auto fuel in December, according to Energy Department data. Rates for medium-range product tankers will average the highest since 2008 this year, d’Amico Shipping International SpA, a Luxembourg-based owner, said this month.
Ross, the founder of WL Ross & Co., owns a majority stake in Navigator Holdings Ltd., the largest operator of midsize LPG vessels. Frontline 2012 Ltd., founded by Fredriksen, the world’s richest ship owner, said in March it was ordering at least four VLGCs.
Outstanding orders for new LPG tankers equal 16 percent of existing capacity, from 10 percent a year ago, according to data from IHS Fairplay, a Redhill, England-based research company.
“The order book remains pretty small and is unlikely to absorb the demand-growth requirements that will be there,” said Doug Mavrinac, an analyst at Jefferies LLC in Houston whose recommendations on the shares of shipping companies returned 17 percent in the past six months. “Given that the U.S. now has an increasing ability to ship out increasing production, you should see further supplies hitting the market.”
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