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January 2nd, 2015
Will triple-digit crude prices make an appearance in 2015? Or will they continue to decline as U.S. oil companies flood the market with tight oil.

Or... how will OPEC react to this new supply threat coming out of the United States' tight oil revolution?

Is it only a matter of time before the mighty oil cartel cuts output and drives up oil prices?

Perhaps even more important is whether oil markets will make a drastic turnaround in 2015!

These are questions that every investor with an eye toward their oil investments should be asking as we move into the new year.

By identifying the trends taking place in today's global industry, individual investors like us will finally be able to get ahead of the curve.

And that's why I've written my latest report called: "Oil Outlook: How to Trade the Upcoming Price Surge in 2015."

Inside this ground-breaking report, I outline:

The most promising areas in North American oil markets in which to invest
How the division within OPEC will shape the global supply dynamic
Why independent drillers in the United States are pushing energy exports to multi-decade lows
and what investors can expect to see concerning demand growth in 2015
Most importantly, you learn why crashing crude prices have created an unprecedented buying opportunity, as well as how individual investors will be taking advantage of it.

http://news.yahoo.com/enbridge-oil-facility-north-dakota-catches-fire-damage-004110555--finance.html

http://www.bursamalaysia.com/market/listed-companies/company-announcements/1842133

As CPO for third month delivery fell to RM2,245 from RM2,254, KLK lost 90 sen to RM21.90, United Plantation 50 sen to RM23.90, PPB Group 44 sen to RM13.86, Sungei Bagan 20 sen to RM3.00......@Ring why Fgv price so low other plantation stocks pr high....very bad good for talking only when comes committment just hopeless!!!!!!

7 mins ago
KUALA LUMPUR: The Employees Provident Fund has re-emerged as a substantial shareholder in oil and gas related services provider Perisai Petroleum Teknologi Bhd whose share price had been battered down in recent months.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102304969

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Iran Says Saudi Arabia Should Move To Curb Oil Price Fall
8 hours ago
DUBAI: Falling world oil prices will hurt countries across the Middle East unless Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest crude exporter, takes action to reverse the slump, Iran's deputy foreign minister told Reuters.

Hossein Amir Abdollahian described Saudi Arabia's inaction in the face of a six-month slide in oil prices as a strategic mistake and said he still hoped the kingdom, Tehran's main rival in the Gulf, would respond.

"If Saudi does not help prevent the decrease in oil price ... this is a serious mistake that will have a negative result on all countries in the region," Abdollahian said in an exclusive interview on Wednesday evening.......@Ring "Arab Spring on d rise"

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His comments highlight continued tensions between the Shi'ite Muslim republic and Sunni Muslim kingdom, locked in a battle for regional power and influence despite hopes of rapprochement since the inauguration of Iran's President Hassan Rouhani in August 2013.

His comments highlight continued tensions between the Shi'ite Muslim republic and Sunni Muslim kingdom, locked in a battle for regional power and influence despite hopes of rapprochement since the inauguration of Iran's President Hassan Rouhani in August 2013.

"If Saudi does not help prevent the decrease in oil price ... this is a serious mistake that will have a negative result on all countries in the region," Abdollahian said in an exclusive interview on Wednesday evening.......@Ring "Arab Spring on d rise"

Iran Says Saudi Arabia Should Move To Curb Oil Price Fall
8 hours ago
DUBAI: Falling world oil prices will hurt countries across the Middle East unless Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest crude exporter, takes action to reverse the slump, Iran's deputy foreign minister told Reuters.

Hossein Amir Abdollahian described Saudi Arabia's inaction in the face of a six-month slide in oil prices as a strategic mistake and said he still hoped the kingdom, Tehran's main rival in the Gulf, would respond.

Cutting Crude Oil Prices Is a "No-Win Situation" for Saudis

"What I learn in these gatherings will allow everyday investors to make some heavy money as these pivotal changes kick in..."...quotable quote!!!!!!

But according to the 2015 oil price forecast by Money Morning Global Energy Strategist Dr. Kent Moors, the worst of the price crash is likely over.

"Oil," Dr. Moors says, "is very near a bottom."

Now here's how investors can profit...

Crude Oil Prices and the Coming of the Second Arab Spring

By DR. KENT MOORS, Global Energy Strategist, Oil & Energy Investor - December 17, 2014 • Print | Email
During the first Arab Spring, some countries were able to avoid the unrest by buying off their populations with goodies. But today in those countries, unemployment is increasing and alternatives to centrally subsidized survival are disappearing.

That's because this untenable balance has been sustained by the price of oil. As long as oil flowed, net outflows from the national coffers could be sustained.

Falling crude oil prices mean that balance is ending - and the prospect of renewed violence is making a big comeback.

http://moneymorning.com/tag/oil-prices/

Issue is oil glut....now Obama have to make policy changes to export in order to reduce glut otherwise "catastrophe"!!!!!!!

Don't cut trees at your whim, warns Najib

Prime Minister Najib Razak yesterday reminded all quarters to be more responsible to the environment and not to cut trees for profits or at their whims and fancy.

"Don't look at trees as mere profits, trees also have their functions. If we betray our mother nature, this is the disaster that awaits us," he said, commenting more must be done to avert future flood crises.

Don't cut trees at your whim, warns Najib

Prime Minister Najib Razak yesterday reminded all quarters to be more responsible to the environment and not to cut trees for profits or at their whims and fancy.

"Don't look at trees as mere profits, trees also have their functions. If we betray our mother nature, this is the disaster that awaits us," he said, commenting more must be done to avert future flood crises.

COMPANY PROFILE & KEY EXECUTIVES FOR SMTC
Sumatec Resources Berhad offers services to the oil and natural gas industry. The Company offers engineering and construction services, offers marine transport services of oil, provides onshore drilling rigs and related equipment, stores oil, and explores and develops marginal oil fields. Sumatec also builds biomass fueled power plants, and explores and mines for metals.

PETALING JAYA: Malaysian oil and gas (O&G) companies are not directly afflicted by the oil price volatility, as they are service providers with operations in various segments along the value chain, according to CIMB Research.“Service providers are not affected by the oil price volatility ....@Ring remember Suma also a Service Provider.

Push To Relax US Oil Export Ban Ends 2014 With Breakthrough

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WASHINGTON: The U.S. ban on exporting most domestic crude oil became one of the defining energy policy issues of 2014, as months of heavy lobbying concluded with the Obama administration opening the door to shipments of certain ultra-light oil.

About one year after the Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz first raised the four-decade-old ban as an item for discussion, the Department of Commerce on Dec. 30 took steps toward allowing export of the oil. It approved some of more than 20 pending requests to export processed ultra-light oil and issued the clearest definitions yet of what companies may export.

The action, which follows months of growing pressure from energy companies and lawmakers, is expected to lead to a wave of exports of the ultra-light oil, also known as condensate. But it will not be enough to reduce a glut of shale oil expected along the U.S. Gulf Coast in coming years that energy interests say will eventually choke the drilling boom.

Congress passed the export ban after the 1970s Arab oil embargo led to snaking lines at gas stations and fears of a global energy shortage. Only Congress can fully lift the ban, a action not expected to happen soon. But the administration could take steps next year to relax it.

Here are some key events over the last 13 months in the push to relax the ban:

December (2013) - Moniz tells a Platts conference in New York the domestic drilling boom means it may be time to review the export ban as energy issues deserve "some new analysis and examination in the context of what is now an energy world that is no longer like the 1970s."

January - Senator Lisa Murkowski, an Alaska Republican, kicks off a year of lobbying against the ban, urging President Barack Obama to lift it and issuing a report saying an end to the ban would create jobs and keep oil output growing at record levels.

February - Research group Resources for the Future issues a report concluding gasoline prices would fall 2 to 7 cents per gallon if exports were allowed. It is the first report in a string of studies, fully or partially supported by the energy industry, that reached similar conclusions.

March - A Reuters/IPSOS poll finds 71 percent of Americans oppose crude oil exports if they raise the price of gasoline, up from 67 percent in November 2013.

March - Four independent U.S. refiners including PBF Energy Inc and Alon USA Energy Inc launch the first major lobbying effort to oppose lifting the export ban, which has benefited them by keeping domestic crude cheap.

March - The U.S. Bureau of Industry and Security, the arm of the Department of Commerce that oversees export regulations, privately issues so-called commodity classification notices, or CCATs, to Pioneer Natural Resources Co and Enterprise Products Partners LP. The rulings, which did not become publicly known until months later, give permission under existing law for the companies to export processed condensate.

May - John Podesta, an adviser to President Barack Obama, says the administration is taking an "active look at what the production looks like, particularly in the Eagle Ford in Texas," and whether refiners could absorb that oil, at a conference at Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy.

May - Reuters reports that oil companies including Pioneer held talks with the Department of Commerce and were hopeful that the Obama administration would allow some exports of condensate.

Ya! drop in crude price obviously can be catastrophic, I belief US may find ways to deplete Glut.In d present scenario Glut got to be reduced????

http://oilprice.com/Energy/Oil-Prices/Could-Libyan-Militants-Spark-An-Oil-Price-Rebound.html

Glut is d issue n US have to come out with policies to deplete stock any d news shd be out by Friday.

KUALA LUMPUR: Fund selling of key stocks including power giant Tenaga Nasional, Petronas linked stocks, Sime Darby and Public Bank erased nearly 10 points from the KLCI late Wednesday.

Good Bye to 2014 n welcome to 2015 countdown started....A Very Happy New Year to dear folks.

Tks @oozie75, ya I am referring to this article.Libya no oil good.Saudi not stable one time say 80 next talking about 20!!!...Now it depends on US to deplete d Glut to save their own ecommy, China may come to help becoz there got to be a "check n balance"otherwise all collapse...2015 oil hv to stabilise @ 80....gone r d days of 100......if d price not feasible for our country then M&A already mentioned by N....so no worries.

Kindly stop unparliamentary words in this forum.After all we all can agree to disagree but no need to get upset.We r all broad minded to be here.Our focus is on Suma so please use civility on language...tks.This Govt shd hv maintained english for right frame of mind now our system hv been massacred!!!!

United States decided to permit more oil exports and on an unexpected build in U.S. crude inventory last week, Reuters reported.

Palm oil heads for longest rally since 2002
Posted on December 31, 2014, Wednesday

Palm oil climbed for a ninth day to head for the longest run of gains in more than a decade as flooding in Malaysia hurt prospects for harvesting, compounding a seasonal slowdown in production in the largest grower after Indonesia.

The contract for March delivery rose as much as 0.8 per cent to RM2,305 ringgit a metric tonne on Bursa Malaysia Derivatives and ended the morning session at RM2,292.

A ninth day of rising prices would be the longest run since June 2002, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The commodity climbed to RM2,308 on Monday, the highest level since November 4.

Palm oil heads for longest rally since 2002
Posted on December 31, 2014, Wednesday

Palm oil climbed for a ninth day to head for the longest run of gains in more than a decade as flooding in Malaysia hurt prospects for harvesting, compounding a seasonal slowdown in production in the largest grower after Indonesia.

The contract for March delivery rose as much as 0.8 per cent to RM2,305 ringgit a metric tonne on Bursa Malaysia Derivatives and ended the morning session at RM2,292.

A ninth day of rising prices would be the longest run since June 2002, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The commodity climbed to RM2,308 on Monday, the highest level since November 4.

Now crude oil price depends on US policies which is due today.

Opec was formed to have fundamental to control prices being defeated while US being big brother shd hv controlled their shale....another big drawback "oil glut" which eventually will deplete with US policies...advantage Libya NO OIL.

Current trend:Libya no oil...US output with high quality shale oil..global Oil markets economic growth slow, weak demand n oversupply..Saudi not reducing...US coming out with policy decisions today...

Oil markets have been oversupplied this year due to increasing output of high quality, light oil from U.S. shale and lower-than-expected consumption as a result of faltering global economic growth and competition from alternative fuels.

In Libya, clashes between rival factions have closed oil ports and terminals this month, reducing exports from the OPEC producer, which used to sell over 1 million barrels per day of crude to world markets, to almost nothing.

Kurdistan And Baghdad Make Interim Oil Deal
Islamic State Looks To Mediterranean To Continue Oil Operations
How Safe Are Turkey’s Oil And Gas Pipelines?

http://oilprice.com/Geopolitics/Middle-East/Jordanian-King-Warns-Of-Impending-World-War-III.html

http://oilprice.com/Energy/Oil-Prices/Looking-At-The-Data-Behind-Low-Oil-Prices.html

http://oilprice.com/Energy/Oil-Prices/Dont-Expect-Low-Oil-Prices-To-Last-For-Long.html

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KUALA LUMPUR: The local stock market traded largely in negative territory in the morning session, at one point losing as much as 14.46 points, before clawing back some of the losses to end just 0.08% lower at the break on Tuesday.

Wreckage n dozen bodies found from d wreckage sight....very sad... very tragic.

Asian shares down on Greece worries!!!!

The Association of Water and Energy Research Malaysia (Awer) is not amused by some irresponsible, illogical, idiotic and lunatic attempts to point the recent flood as a "punishment from God", and neither do we take the current flooding as a rare occurrence.

In fact, if the destruction of our forests were to continue, imagine what will be the flood situation when only half of our current virgin forests are left? In the 10th Malaysia Plan, it was published that RM5 billion will be allocated for flood mitigation programmes (page 282)......extract from M..kini.......@ Ring I hv been telling in this forum stop cutting trees instead improve d yield from the existing land....d so called professionals hv no Brain?

Ring The Association of Water and Energy Research Malaysia (Awer) is not amused by some irresponsible, illogical, idiotic and lunatic attempts to point the recent flood as a "punishment from God", and neither do we take the current flooding as a rare occurrence.

In fact, if the destruction of our forests were to continue, imagine what will be the flood situation when only half of our current virgin forests are left? In the 10th Malaysia Plan, it was published that RM5 billion will be allocated for flood mitigation programmes (page 282)......extract from M..kini.......@ Ring I hv been telling in this forum to stop cutting trees instead improve d yield from d existing land....d so called professionals hv no Brain?

Palm oil, rubber rise as floods threaten crops
Posted on December 30, 2014, Tuesday

http://www.nst.com.my/node/67283

Brent rises to output concerns
30 DECEMBER 2014 @ 12:49 AM

LONDON: Brent crude oil rose to US$60 per barrel yesterday, supported by concerns about disruption to output from Libya, but a global supply glut kept prices nearly 50 per cent off their peak for the year.