Newsgroup: it.economia.borsa.estero
Titolo: Da tenere in considerazione..

l'inverno è alle porte, gli americani usano + macchine che aerei la
situazione dell'iraq non si è stabilizzata ed infine i futures sul Crude Oil
e Gas sono in rialzo.......
HEC (Texas)
UPDATE 1-Oil prices rise as US drivers guzzle low supplies
21/08/2003   17:19
    (Updates throughout)
    By Barbara Lewis
    LONDON, Aug 21 (Reuters) - World oil prices rose on
Thursday, with strength in gasoline leading the way as the
ongoing U.S. driving season guzzled dwindling supplies.
    New York crude futures rose 76 cents to $31.80 a barrel
while London Brent also jumped 76 cents to $29.60.
    Prices had begun to rally on Wednesday after U.S. government
data showed a fall in overall crude stocks and also in gasoline
inventories that fell to their lowest level in nine months.
    Demand remains high as the United States enters the last
weeks of summer, when car use peaks.
    "The statistics inspired strength and gasoline seems to be
order of the day," said Tony Machacek of Prudential Bache
brokerage.
    An official at the Energy Information Adminitration, the
statistics arm of the U.S. Department of Energy, said gasoline
demand had been reaching record levels as Americans continued to
avoid flying in the wake of the September 11 attacks.
    "More people have been driving than flying. I am assuming
that we can attribute that directly to 9/11," an official at the
EIA said. "People are driving like crazy."
    REFINERY GLITCHES
    The price rally gained momentum on Thursday as refinery
problems in the United States and Europe increased concern about
the low inventory levels.
    Last week's massive power outage in North America led
production to be halted at seven refineries.
    Those refineries subsequently resumed production, but on
Thursday traders were concerned about a series of refinery
problems in California, as well as an outage in a pipeline
supplying gasoline to Phoenix, Arizona, from Texas.
    In the United States overall crude stocks have remained
below year-ago levels for months following disruption from
supplies from producer nations.
    Many in the market are resigned to the fact Iraq oil exports
will probably not return to pre-war levels in the near future
after a series of attacks on Iraqi oil pipelines and power lines
have hampered efforts to restore supplies.
    But concerns about the security situation in the country
have been heightened by the devastating suicide bomb attack on
the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad earlier this week
that killed the top U.N. envoy in Iraq.
    Traders are also nervous about political tensions in
Venezuela, another vital supplier of crude to the United States,
where opponents of President Hugo Chavez have called for a
referendum on his rule.
    Earlier this year a massive strike launched by opponents of
Chavez choked off the country's oil exports.
    Exports from OPEC nation Nigeria were also disrupted in
March by unrest in the country's oil-producing region.
    But fears of further interruption of Nigerian supplies
subsided after leaders of rival ethnic groups declared a
ceasefire in the southern Nigerian oil city of Warri on
Wednesday, the local state government said.
    ((Reporting by Barbara Lewis; editing by Duncan Shiels;
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specialmene il gas......
in usa e canada si prevede una domanda di gas molto + alta dell'offerta...
in europa nn ci dovrebbero essere problemi.....