Peak Oil or no Peak Oil, it is all rides on production from the USA. This chart demonstrates that story in spades. Of all the top gainers on this chart, only Canada will continue to increase for any length of time. All the rest, with the possible exception of Kazakhstan, will either ...
The commerce of crude oil depends heavily on its water and salt contents usually referred to as Basic Sediments and Water (BS&W), which is co-produced with the crude oil in the form of emulsion. The lower the BS&W, the higher the market value of the crude. The presence of water in cru...