A. F. Alhajji Quotes

• OPEC became powerless the moment it sold its last barrel of excess capacity, and that was maybe a year ago.

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  Tags in Excess, Opec

• They’re saying that right now. The sentiment might change with military action.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Action, Change, Military

• There (would) be demonstrations in (Iranian) streets calling for the government to cut off oil exports.

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  Tags in Government, Oil

• Iran is the only major oil-producing country that still has a budget deficit. History tells us since the Iranian revolution, they always talk about cutting production, but they’ve never cut it.

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  Topics in Country, History

  Tags in Oil

• If we look at Hurricane Ivan (which hit the Gulf in 2004), oil prices continued to go up for more than a month. Companies continued to work on their facilities but there were always delays restoring production.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Production

• They don’t want to trigger projects that take even 1 or 2 percent off of demand.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Trigger, Demand

• I think within a couple of weeks, (gas) prices will revert to pre-Katrina levels. But I also believe oil prices will go up again.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Oil

• We need every drop of gasoline for the driving season. Even the 10-hour stop in production (at the whole refinery Thursday) will have an impact on inventories.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Production

• When we are going at 4 percent, it’s difficult to fall all the way back to contraction. But we could definitely end up having slower growth.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Difficult, Growth

A. F. Alhajji (9)

Nationality:	American
Profession:	Columnist, Economist, Editor, Professor

About

Anas Alhajji, Ph.D. joined NGP Energy Capital Management in 2008 as Chief Economist. In this newly created role, Dr. Alhajji leads the firm's macro-analysis of the oil, natural gas and related markets and the overall economic environment. Prior to joining NGP he served as a professor of Economics at the University of Oklahoma , the Colorado School of Mines  and, most recently, Ohio Northern University where he held the George Patton Chair of Business and Economics and taught courses in energy economics & policy, and international economics.

 

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