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A Slippery Slope Ahead for Oil
Dr. James Schlesinger says the U.S. attitude towards oil “has only two modes – complacency and panic.”
Schlesinger should know. In the 70’s he closely watched the Middle East as the U.S. Secretary of Defense. Then he would move onto become the first U.S. Secretary of Energy when oil prices were really starting to move up during the Carter Administration.
He was in the thick of the oil panic of the 70’s. And he was there, holding numerous seats on oil companies’ boards of directors, during two decades of complacency.
Oil is hovering around $50 a barrel and we’re at the middle…
2Dec2008 | Q1 Publishing | 0 comments | ContinuedExxon Mobil Posts Record $14.8 Billion Profit, Shell Tops Estimates
Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) set a U.S. profit record today (Thursday) when it announced its third quarter profit topped $14.8 billion on record-high oil prices.
Exxon Mobil, the largest U.S. oil company, earned $14.8 billion, or $2.86 per share, a 58% increase from the $9.41 billion, or $1.70 per share it earned in the third quarter of 2007. Exxon Mobil’s record-setting profit was enough to beat analyst expectations of $2.38 a share, according FactSet Research data.
Exxon Mobil beat its own record for the largest quarterly profit for a U.S. company, which it had previously set in the second quarter of…
31Oct2008 | Money Morning | Comments Off | ContinuedWhere Is Oil Headed?
The Price of Oil
Oil made two runs toward $150 recently, and failed both times. Now oil is in a retreat. Oil was trading near $121 earlier this week. And it appears that support at that price is crumbling. This will surely take the oil company stocks down, as well as those of the oil service companies.
Despite this recent drop in oil prices, BP (BP: NYSE) reported a 28% increase in second-quarter profits, led by surging energy prices. BP also announced that it would continue to fight for its interests in its troubled Russian partnership, TNK-BP. All of this bodes well…
1Aug2008 | Energy and Oil | Comments Off | Continued
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