The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, has brought forward an emergency meeting to discuss the effect of the global financial crisis on oil markets. The announcement was made public when oil prices plunged below 67 USD the barrel.
Oil prices fell sharply on Wednesday as investors and officials said the global financial crisis could slash demand for energy. The price of crude oil for future delivery dropped more than 4 USD or more than 5%, to 74.50 USD a barrel during trading in New York.
The 35.000 tonnes Liberian cargo ship, built in 1977 Fedra lies in two pieces adjacent to the Lighthouse at Europa Point, Gibraltar.
Chile is in summer time with clocks having advanced sixty minutes during the weekend. This means that Chile's Dalylight Summer time is three hours behind Greenwish mean time.
The price of crude oil has now plunged by almost 50% since striking record high levels above 147 US dollars per barrel on July 11. Trading on Friday was below 80 US dollars a barrel as demand declines amid a worsening economic outlook caused by a global credit crisis.
OPEC is consulting on whether to hold an emergency meeting on November 18 to discuss the impact of the global financial crisis on the oil market, Libya's top oil official said on Wednesday.
Global bio-fuel policies should be urgently reviewed to ensure that the world's poor benefit by ending trade-distorting subsidies favouring developed nations while countering the rise in food prices sparked by the diversion of foodstuff to energy production, according to a new United Nations report released today.
Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner officially marked on Monday the beginning of operations of a South Atlantic oil rig, the first to be fully financed by Argentine government and private investors.
A former Argentine airport officer who became a model and television star testified in a US court Friday about discovering a suitcase stuffed with nearly $800,000 in cash brought to a Buenos Aires airport from Venezuela.
The outlook for oil demand is weakening, shifting the sentiment of oil markets from bullish to bearish according to a report from the Saudi Arabia's Arab News daily.