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<title><![CDATA[2012 ethylene production bounces back; turnarounds in early 2013 to curb output]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 04 Mar 2013 01:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[With parts of European still struggling with sovereign debt problems and key members of the European Union reconsidering the benefits and disadvantages of further economic and political integration, the global economic outlook for US petrochemical producers in 2013 is a little brighter than 6 ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[MARKET WATCH: WTI rebounds; Brent regresses; gas increases slightly]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 12 Feb 2013 13:47:00 EST]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Front-month crude prices rebound 1.4% Feb. 11 on the New York futures market while in London North Sea Brent hit an intraday low of $117.60/bbl before struggling back to just a 0.6% loss, narrowing the price spread with West Texas Intermediate.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Panorama 2013: Easing of oil price unlikely]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 11 Feb 2013 01:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[With futures markets anticipating a price of Brent crude oil of $110/bbl this year, an easing to $90/bbl appears possible in three unlikely cases, according to Panorama 2013, an annual review by IFP Energy Nouvelles (IFPEN) of Paris]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Suncor writes down ‘challenged’ upgrader]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:10:00 EST]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Suncor Energy has written down most of the carrying value of the planned Voyageur upgrader near Fort McMurray, Alta., describing the project as “challenged.”]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Oil demand outlook depends more than usual on politics]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 04 Feb 2013 01:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Forecasts of global demand for oil, always sensitive to economic fate, weather, and geopolitical surprise, are especially fragile this year. Economic growth depends extraordinarily much on another wild variable: politics.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Panorama 2013: Easing of oil price unlikely]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 01 Feb 2013 13:37:00 EST]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[With futures markets anticipating a price of Brent crude oil of $110/bbl this year, an easing to $90/bbl appears possible in three unlikely cases, according to Panorama 2013, an annual review by IFP Energy Nouvelles (IFPEN) of Paris.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Oil demand outlook depends more than usual on politics]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:58:00 EST]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Forecasts of global demand for oil, always sensitive to economic fate, weather, and geopolitical surprise, are especially fragile this year.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Unusual economic uncertainties cloud oil and gas market outlook]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 07 Jan 2013 01:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[More than usual uncertainty about the economic drivers of energy markets complicates forecasts about oil demand in a year of continuing relocation of the growth centers for supply and demand.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[2013 looks a lot like 2012]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 07 Jan 2013 01:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[New Year 2013 looks as though it will be much like the old one. There's rioting in Egypt, confrontation with Iran, continued crisis in the Euro-zone, and Texas needs rain—as does most of the US Midwest where drought conditions are still in the severe, extreme, and exceptional ranges.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[MARKET WATCH: Oil prices decline as joy over budget agreement wanes]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 04 Jan 2013 13:49:00 EST]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Oil prices slumped and natural gas continued its fall Jan. 3 as euphoria over the US budget agreement faded.]]></description>
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