Laptop Battery Looming war in Iraq and a Venezuelan workers' strike have stolen
the headlines in the build toward $40 oil, but it is a decade-long
shrinkage of the U.S. energy industry that underlies the soaring
price.
laptop computers is driving strong sales for notebook computers, according to the latest quarterly sales figures from the research firm IDC, which reported a 37% computer sales for the second quarter, compared with a year earlier. In the U.S., laptop sales grew 17.7%, while sales of desktop computers and servers fell 4%. The New York Times ( 10), CNET ( 10)
Thinkpad As energy companies bid to improve profit margins by cutting
costs, oil and natural gas drillers are pumping less supply from
the U.S. mainland, while unprofitable refiners have closed plants
and drained storage tanks, analysts said.
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Microsoft The result: a U.S. energy supply system increasingly vulnerable
to supply shocks, leaving fuel consumers at home and abroad more
exposed to sudden price rises.
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Laptop Computers "The oil industry has been generally underinvested in last 20
years ... so what happens is if we get into a situation where we
get a hiccup in the oil balance and you get these very leveraged
affects on price," said Mike Rothman, analyst at Merrill Lynch
bank.
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Laptop Computer The U.S. supply shortage has undercut the ability of the OPEC
oil producer cartel -- itself now bumping up against production
capacity limits -- to keep oil price increases under control. OPEC
meets next week to decide policy in the event of war in Iraq.
Almost 10 years later, the trend of abandoning desktop computers in favor of laptops is creating a new era in computing security.
Desktop Computer U.S. oil companies keep on hand about 1 billion barrels of spare
supply of crude oil and oil products like gasoline, worth tens of
billions of dollars. But when oil prices drop, the cost to refiners
can be overwhelming, as inventory on hand loses value.
Notebooks Plagued by poor profits for much of the 1990s, U.S. oil refiners
increasingly used computer software to manage inventories more
efficiently and whittle down the stock cushion they keep on hand.
The shift gained pace in the Internet boom.
Lenovo "If refiners wanted to maintain share price in an environment of
high tech stocks they're going to do everything to cut costs," said
Sarah Emerson, director of Boston-based Energy Security Analysis
Inc.
Hard Drive LOW STOCKS, HIGH PRICES
Travelstar From February 1993 to this year commercial crude inventories
have fallen 18 percent and now stand at the lowest level since
1975, according to government figures. The lack of oil last week
pushed crude prices to within a penny of hitting $40 for the first
time in 12 years.
Gateway "Throughout the U.S. energy industry, assets and activity have
been undervalued by markets," said Paul Horsnell of J.P. Morgan
bank.
Laptop Parts This winter the slow inventory evaporation has been accelerated
by an anti-government Venezuelan strike that has chopped oil
exports of the world's former No. 5 supplier by one-third, or 1
million barrels per day.
Software U.S. crude stocks have dropped to the minimum 270 million-barrel
level the government says is needed to keep supplies flowing
smoothly -- just as the international oil system braces for war in
Iraq, which ships around 4 percent of world crude exports.
Hard Drives The sheer size of the energy needs of the United States, which
consumes a quarter of the world's oil and imports 60 percent of its
fuel, means higher U.S. prices ripple through to Europe and Asia,
even though supplies there are not nearly as tight.
Electronics "The United States has probably been the most active (nation) in
terms of moving toward a lower average level of inventories for
petroleum," said Dave Costello, an economist at the federal Energy
Information Administration.
Canon WINTER WOES
Desktop Pc A long, cold winter has pulled U.S. heating oil stocks to their
lowest levels in nearly three years. Gasoline stocks, which should
soon be building for summer driving demand, are 11 percent lower
than last year.
Desktop Computers Supplies have now fallen to dangerous levels, said Matthew
Simmons, oil consultant with Simmons and Co. in Houston. "We got
here over a decade, as a result it's going to take long time to
figure out how we get out of this hole," Simmons said.
Think Pad Cost-conscious companies' reluctance to drill for new supplies
also has helped press prices for natural gas -- a rival heating and
industrial fuel -- to all-time highs for the second time in three
winters.
Repair "This is not the sign of a market that is either working well or
playing a constructive role in the U.S. economy," said J.P.
Morgan's Horsnell.
Data Recovery By Timothy Gardner
Reuters - 3/5/2003
Topic: Energy
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