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The reports offer an integrated view of the global crude and refined products landscape, anticipating short- to medium-term developments and trends in the world oil market. Topics include supply, demand, and price outlooks and analysis; insight on geopolitical events and their impact on the market; and the strategic implications.
A New Iraq in the Making: A Difficult (and Late) Delivery
The Iraqi elections have only sharpened the issues facing the nascent government. Thanks to the proportional system, the outcome of this Iraqi election looks more like the publication of a census tha ...
Publication Date: JAN 2006
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Russia and Ukraine's New Gas Agreement: What Does It Mean and How Long Will It Last?
On January 4, 2006, a settlement was reached to end the recent gas feud between Russia and Ukraine. Months of tense negotiations had culminated in a supply cut to Ukraine on January 1, which quickly ...
Publication Date: JAN 2006
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Kazakhstan's Elections: A Vote for Stability amid Political Change
President Nazarbayev's reelection to his final term on December 4 demonstrated the growing sophistication of Kazakhstan's politics. But it also marked the start of jockeying among his potential succe ...
Publication Date: JAN 2006
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Provincial Profile - Shandong, September 2005
This CERA China Energy Provincial Profile provides unique insight and analysis on the key issues concerning the oil, natural gas, coal, and power industries in Shandong Province, China.
Publication Date: SEP 2005
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Provincial Profile - Guangdong, September 2005
This CERA China Energy Provincial Profile provides unique insight and analysis on the key issues concerning the oil, natural gas, coal, and power industries in Guangdong Province, China.
Publication Date: SEP 2005
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Mexican Environmental Pressures: Bringing Deeper Change in the Hydrocarbon Sector?
A rash of serious accidents ranging from oil pipeline ruptures to leaks, spills, and explosions has heightened public concerns about the compliance and performance of Mexico's hydrocarbon sector with ...
Publication Date: SEP 2005
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Staying Wide: The New Paradigm for Light-Heavy Differentials?
The unprecedented and sustained gap in prices between light and heavy oils has created much uncertainty for producers, refiners, and investors. Are these differentials here to stay? In CERA's view, s ...
Publication Date: MAY 2005
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China Viewpoints: Over a Barrel
Daniel Yergin, Chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, examined the issues around China's growing and significant presence in the world energy market in an article for Fortune magazine's Ma ...
Publication Date: MAY 2005
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Special Report--Global Oil Summit 2005: The Future of E&P Challenge: Growth and Innovation
Upstream research and development (R&D) spending by many international oil companies has decreased significantly over the past two decades. There is also a perception, at least in some quarters, ...
Publication Date: MAY 2005
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Worldwide Liquids Capacity Outlook to 2010: Tight Supply or Excess of Riches?
Despite recent concerns over tight liquids supply, CERA believes that worldwide productive capacity will expand significantly to 2010 and likely exceed demand by as much as 7.5 million barrels per da ...
Publication Date: MAY 2005
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In Search of Reasonable Certainty: Oil and Gas Reserve Disclosure
CERA has been reflecting on the growing focus on oil and gas reserve reporting and the resulting confusion, controversy and implications across the industry.

In response, we have released o ...
Publication Date: FEB 2005
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Russia's Next Oil and Gas Frontier? Projects in Arctic Northwest Claim Growing Share of Company Budgets
Several Russian majors, together with Western partners in various cases, have committed a growing share of investment budgets to projects in Russia's Arctic northwest lately. To date, production is s ...
Publication Date: JAN 2005
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ConocoPhillips Strikes Strategic Alliance with LUKoil
The announcement on September 29, 2004, of a major strategic alliance between the American oil company ConocoPhillips and the Russian oil company LUKoil represents the culmination of a long acquainta ...
Publication Date: OCT 2004
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Wide Light-Heavy Spreads Return--For Now
Light-to-heavy crude oil spreads have widened significantly in recent months. In contrast to the previous spike of 2001, CERA does not anticipate a rapid correction in this spread. Values for the lig ...
Publication Date: SEP 2004
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Oil: How High Can It Go, and for How Long?
The $40 per barrel price of oil is a hot topic. But of even greater significance is the fact that for the first time since the early 1980s, oil prices have stayed above OPEC's target price zone for a ...
Publication Date: MAY 2004
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Riding the Tiger: The Global Impact of China's Energy Quandary
The world's energy industries are now coming to terms with China's emergence-not merely as a new player, but increasingly one of the most decisive factors in their markets. From 2000 through 2003, Ch ...
Publication Date: MAY 2004
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Special Report: Energy Competition or Cooperation?--Shifting the Paradigm
While energy markets around the world are more open now to trade, competition, and foreign investment than at any time in history, questions regarding market liberalization, transparency, and securit ...
Publication Date: MAY 2004
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Stockholders versus Stakeholders: A Battle for Market Share?
To whom are oil companies responsible, and to what extent are they justified in spending the stockholders' money on an agenda that they have negotiated with other stakeholders?
Publication Date: APR 2004
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Potential versus Reality: West African Oil and Gas to 2020
The upstream oil and gas industry in West Africa is at a crossroads. West Africa could become an increasingly important engine of production growth for oil companies, but political and market factors ...
Publication Date: APR 2004
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Gas Project Development in China: Lessons from the West-East Pipeline
China's West-East Gas Pipeline (WEP) has begun commercial deliveries to target provinces in East China. The WEP project is a symbolic success for the Chinese firms that built it largely unassisted, f ...
Publication Date: JAN 2004
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Kazakhstan's Gas Dilemma
Kazakhstan is pursuing a strategy to increase utilization of associated gas in order to reduce its reliance on imported gas from Russia and Uzbekistan. But two key questions arise for the investors t ...
Publication Date: JAN 2004
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Technologies of the Digital Oil Field of the Future
CERA's Multiclient Study, The Digital Oil Field of the Future: Enabling Next Generation Reservoir Performance examines the economics and business case for the Digital Oil Field, the technologi ...
Publication Date: MAY 2003
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Global Oil Trends 2003
Global Oil Trends 2003 extends the Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) Trends series, providing historical data and thought-provoking analysis of the global oil industry. ...
Publication Date: FEB 2003
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