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[URL="http://in.reuters.com/article/2015/07/10/us-iea-oil-refining-idINKCN0PK1E820150710"]Oil refiners' 'mini golden era' will end soon: IEA[/URL]
A brief period of high profitability for the world's oil refineries is likely to come to an end as quickly as it began, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Friday.
Weak crude oil and relatively high prices for gasoline, diesel and petrochemical feedstock have pushed up refining profits sharply over the last six months, helping oil companies cope with much lower profits from upstream production.
In the first quarter of this year, combined profits for the likes of BP (BP.L), Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L), Exxon Mobil (XOM.N), Total (TOTF.PA) and Eni (ENI.MI) from refining and trading represented 60 percent of total earnings, compared with 18 percent last year, according to Reuters calculations.
Crude oil prices collapsed from $115 a barrel in June 2014 to a low near $45 in January. They have since recovered some ground but are still close to half their peak last year.
By 1230 GMT (8:30 a.m. EDT) on Friday, benchmark Brent crude oil LCOc1 was trading around $59 a barrel.
But the IEA, which advises the world's biggest economies on energy policy, says this mini golden era will soon end.
New refineries coming on stream this year and next, along with upgraded units at existing refineries, are set to reverse those gains.
"In 2015-2016, net capacity additions will be more than needed, which will cause the global utilization rate to decline, and casts a doubt on the continuation of current unusually high refining margins," the IEA said in its monthly report.
The bulk of the new capacity is coming in the United States, where refineries are adding pieces of equipment to enable them to process more oil from the shale boom, and also from China.
In the Middle East, ADNOC's Ruwais refinery in Abu Dhabi is set to join two 400,000 barrels per day (bpd) mega units that officially launched in Saudi Arabia in 2014.
The IEA estimates that global refining capacity will rise by 1.1 million bpd per year in 2015 and 2016, bringing worldwide capacity to just over 97 million bpd – a 2 percent increase.
While some closures are already planned in Europe and Asia, the agency no longer thinks these will be enough to balance the new additions.
"On a cumulative basis, refinery additions remain below demand growth," it said. But it noted that some of this demand will be met by biofuels and natural gas.
"With ever-increasing measures to curb greenhouse gasses emissions and increase efficiency, we forecast OECD (oil products) demand to resume its downward trend from 2017 onwards," the IEA report said.
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[URL="http://danlambaovn.blogspot.com/2015/07/bo-tu-lenh-thu-o-thay-tuong.html"]CTV Danlambao[/URL] - Bộ quốc pḥng CSVN vừa thay thế 2 tướng lĩnh cao cấp đứng đầu bộ tư lệnh thủ đô Hà Nội. Việc chuyển giao quyền lực đă được tiến hành hôm 3/7/2015, trùng với thời điểm mà đại tướng - bộ trưởng quốc pḥng Phùng Quang Thanh "đi Pháp chữa bệnh".
Theo cổng thông tin điện tử bộ quốc pḥng, thiếu tướng Nguyễn Doăn Anh sẽ lên làm tư lệnh thay cho trung tướng Phí Quốc Tuấn, c̣n thiếu tướng Nguyễn Thế Kết giữ chức chính uỷ thay cho trung tướng Lê Hùng Mạnh.
Tham dự buổi lễ ‘bàn giao nhiệm vụ’ có sự xuất hiện của bí thư thành uỷ Hà Nội Phạm Quang Nghị, người đồng thời cũng là bí thư đảng uỷ bộ tư lệnh thủ đô.
Về phía bộ quốc pḥng có thượng tướng Ngô Xuân Lịch, hiện đang giữ chức bí thư trung ương đảng, chủ nhiệm tổng cục chính trị.
Thay tướng theo lệnh 'thủ trưởng'
Việc cả 2 vị trung tướng đứng đầu bộ tư lệnh thủ đô phải về hưu cùng một lúc được nói là thực hiện theo ‘các quyết định của thủ trưởng bộ quốc pḥng’. Dù vậy, danh tính vị ‘thủ trưởng’ này đă không được nhắc đến.
Bộ tư lệnh thủ đô Hà Nội nằm dưới quyền chỉ huy trực tiếp của bộ trưởng quốc pḥng đương nhiệm Phùng Quang Thanh.
Với quân số hơn 20 ngàn người, đây là một trong những lực lượng quân sự quan trọng, có nhiệm vụ bảo vệ các cơ quan đầu năo của đảng cộng sản tại Hà Nội.
Theo sắc lệnh số 16 năm 2008 của chủ tịch nước, quân khu thủ đô Hà Nội được tổ chức lại thành bộ tư lệnh thủ đô Hà Nội. Quyết định này dưa trên việc sát nhập bộ chỉ huy quân sự Hà Nội, Hà Tây và Vĩnh Phúc.
Ông Phí Quốc Tuấn khi ấy mang hàm đại tá thuộc bộ chỉ huy quân sự Hà Tây, được thủ tướng Nguyễn Tấn Dũng đưa về làm tư lệnh sau khi thẳng tay gạt bỏ 5 vị tướng đương nhiệm trong dàn lănh đạo cũ.
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That Time Russia Tried To Team Up With China To Destroy The US Economy Read mor
[COLOR="#FF0000"]They say you shouldn't kick a man when he's down, but that's exactly what Russia tried to do back in 2008 when the United States was at its lowest point in recent history.[/COLOR]
[URL="http://www.businessinsider.com/russia-tries-to-get-china-to-sell-gses-2014-3"]You'll remember the housing crisis, of course.[/URL]
In a recent BBC documentary called "How China Fooled The World" then-Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson recalls doing all he could to ensure that mortgage insurers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's biggest outside investors — the Chinese — didn't sell their stake in the companies.
At the same time, however, Paulson learned that Russian officials were working to ensure the opposite. They were trying to get the Chinese to join them in selling Fannie and Freddie holdings to gang up on the U.S.
Here's what he said in the documentary:
"Here I'm not going to name the senior person, but I was meeting with someone… This person told me that the Chinese had received a message from the Russians which was, 'Hey let's join together and sell Fannie and Freddie securities on the market.' The Chinese weren't going to do that but again, it just, it just drove home to me how vulnerable I felt until we had put Fannie and Freddie into conservatorship [the rescue plan for them, that was eventually put in place]."
The Chinese didn't end up doing any of that, but this just goes to show how ready and willing Russia has been to hurt the United States at any point.
A year later, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her counterpart would hit the "reset button" on Russia-U.S. relations.
It's hard to imagine that button coming out again any time soon.
NOW WATCH: 11 Incredible Facts Show How Different Russia Is From The Rest Of The World
Read more: [url]http://www.businessinsider.com/russia-tries-to-get-china-to-sell-gses-2014-3#ixzz3fxr9nwwg[/url]
War ‘Inevitable’ Between US, China: Russian, Chinese Media
The flags of the United States and China flutter on a light post in Beijing's Tiananmen Square ahead of a welcoming ceremony for U.S. President Barack Obama, Nov. 12, 2014. Reuters/Petar Kujundzic
Chinese and Russian media have started suggesting the possibility of a China-U.S. war. While the national news agency in China calls it “inevitable,” a Russian news agency listed a number of indications that it said “proved’ the two nations were heading toward a military conflict.
Clearly, there has been growing diplomatic tension between China and the United States. And according to reports, both countries have been spending lots of money on military preparations.
China's Xinhua News Agency reported that the present political situation put a question mark on building peaceful coexistence between China and the U.S. “The situation has many people pondering how the two countries can avoid 'Thucydides's trap' -- the notion an established power becomes so anxious about the rise of a new power that a struggle leading to war becomes inevitable,” [URL="http://www.ibtimes.com/war-inevitable-between-us-china-russian-chinese-media-1982123"]Xinhua reported.[/URL]
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Russia's Pravda reported that China had conducted a number of military exercises simulating an attack against Taiwan. “Since the U.S. is committed to protecting Taiwan, a real conflict of this nature would almost certainly involve the United States” the Russian news agency predicted.
The U.S. government blames Beijing for theft of the personal data of some 14 million U.S. government workers. According to U.S. authorities, it was “an act of war.” The U.S. says the breach also has compromised background information about intelligence and military personnel.
Pravda gives 11 “harbingers” that apparently demonstrate that China and the United States will be involved in a war soon. According to the Russian agency, China has developed a "carrier killer" missile specifically designed for destroying U.S. aircraft carriers. The Chinese navy is also developing ballistic missile submarines that are “extremely quiet.”
30 Reasons Proving That Putin Is Preparing to Start World War III
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I frequently hear the following: Russia is a Christian nation. Putin is good Christian man. Russia only wants to defend its borders. Putin is the only obstacle between the New World Order and the people of the world. Stop, I cannot listen to any more ignorance. Putin is preparing to start World War III. This could be a war that will kill billions, destroy nations and threaten all of humanity.
[URL="http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2015/01/18/30-reasons-proving-putin-preparing-start-world-war-iii/"]There are 30 reasons proving that Putin is preparing to start World War III.[/URL]
1. Eight months ago, I wrote about the face-off between American paramilitary forces (i.e. Academi, formerly Blackwater) and Russian paramilitary forces (i.e. Vnevedomstvenaya Okhrana) in Ukraine. America and Russia are already spilling each other’s blood.
2. Also in May of 2014, the Western media was suspiciously silent about the Russians airlifting critical supplies which would be used to support a war effort in Eastern Ukraine. Yet, Russia’s Novostinews service is openly reporting that “Ammunition for Special Forces is being airlifted for Slaviansk Operation.”This is highly significant because Ukraine Denetsk region is asking to join Russia. Other regions are likely to follow. Russia is further airlifting ammunition into the same region. Even Ray Charles could see that this constitutes preparations for war in Ukraine and that this ammunition has gone to support the paramilitary forces fighting in Ukraine!
3. According to a Russian navy blog, published in May of 2014, Russia simulated an American nuclear attack involving submarines, bombers and land-based missiles and this massive drill was coordinated under the direct supervision of Putin at the Defense Ministry’s headquarters in Moscow. The nuclear drill simulated a massive retaliatory nuclear strike in response to an enemy attack. This was a live fire drill and involved a Sineva ballistic missile that hit a target on the Kula testing range on the Kamchatka Peninsula. Subsequent warnings were issued to civilian aircraft to stay clear of the massive war games area.
4. Beginning eight months ago, Russia’s LifeNewsbegan reporting that Russia’s Ministry of Civil Defense, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters has issued travel restrictions to all employees like the country’s firefighters, ambulance drivers and rescue troopers. Additionally, a similar travel ban is imposed for parts of employees under the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) including tens of thousands of police officers, prison guards, and other law enforcement agencies like the Federal Drug Control and the Federal Migration Service. Others listed in the travel ban are personnel with access to state secrets, like certain employees of the Foreign Ministry. According to estimates, the total number of travel-restricted personnel number around 250,000 people.
5. The Russians are in war mode, Arctic war mode Russia is adding 40 new naval ships to its nuclear arsenal in 2014. By the end of 2015, Russia will have nearly as many naval ships as the United States.
6. Retrofitted combat aircraft from Russia’s Northern Fleet will extend the ranges of their patrol flights over the Arctic in 2014 using a network of 14 revamped Soviet-era airfields.
7. Ballistic missile submarines make up one part of Russia’s strategic nuclear triad along with land-based ICBMs and the Russian bomber force. The Borey submarine is Russia’s first post-Soviet ballistic missile submarine class and will form the mainstay of the strategic submarine fleet, replacing aging Typhoon, Delta-3 and Delta-4 class boats. The creation of the Borey signals that the Russian economy is in war mode.Russia ultimately expects to manufacture eight Borey-class submarines by the year 2020.
8. According to Russian Defense Minister, Army General Sergey Shoigum,Russia will be very active in developing its military bases abroad in places like Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Armenia. The Russian defense minister went on to say that they were conducting drills in Belarus and Tajikistan. In fact, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan are still holding war games in the Ural region, according to the TASS Russian News Agency. It has leaked out that Russia and China are holding joint terrorist drills inside of China. Russia is clearly preparing for war.
9. During last year’s Syrian crisis Putin threatened to nuke the United States if it invaded Syria in violation of international law. Syria is critical to the Russians on a number of fronts including the prevalence of Syria’s warm water ports.Putin committed an act of war by seizing Crimea in a manner similar to Hitler to his nonviolent seizures of land prior to attacking Poland to begin World War II.
10. Russia has heavily invested in the development of a Radar-beating missile delivery system in order to protect its long range bombers.
11. Russia has spent nearly $72 billion on arms in 2011 and is planning on spending well over a half a billion dollars to upgrade its weapons systems by 2016 including the development of the ability to cripple America with cyber attacks.
12. Russia’s nuclear forces are turning mobile and the new stealth technology extends from undetectable bombers to silent running nuclear submarines.
13. According to PRAVDA,Russia has 5,000 nuclear weapons of different tactical classes including Iskander warheads and torpedo, aerial and artillery warheads, all right next to Europe.
14. According to The Financial Times, satellite killers were launched into orbit May of 2014.This move by the Russians, parallels what the Chinese have already accomplished and tested. The intent is to blind American forces on the battlefield and at sea.
15. The Russians just announced that a full squadron of ships from the Russian Navy’s Northern Fleet recently held drills in the English Channel! NATO has to be very nervous as war games have historically been used to launch an attack.
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