Investing in oil in the face of terrorism

 The terrorist attacks threaten the security of nations and a climate of uncertainty. These threats and the impact of equity markets in the world and make investment decisions very difficult, even for experts.

 What can the average investor? First we must ask ourselves what is the probability of a serious terrorist attack. Then you must determine if their portfolios are sufficiently coated with oiltell him or based investments increase in value is a major terrorist attack to disrupt oil production and distribution.

 "One of the key issues facing the safe transport of oil," said Roger L. Cory, President of Mammoth Resource Partners, a Kentucky-based oil and gas company. "Ours is a system of global transport of oil. It 'almost impossible to achieve a target of terrorists can creare severe disturbances.

 Mammoth Partner resources pertinenceASED a report describing the vulnerability of this area for terrorism. The report warns that the system for transporting oil supplies endless opportunities for the exploitation of terrorist networks. "

 Oil resources, platforms, loading terminals, ports, vessels, storage tanks and refineries allemaalje white. 200,000 kilometers of pipelines in the United States and 10,000 miles of condotte in Saudi Arabia are particularly vulnerable, especially as most of pipeline sontau on the floor and little supervision, according to the report.

 Street and channels from around the world can also be targets of terrorism. More than 6,000 oil tankers a year travel through the Bosporus, and 80 percent of the oil of the Persian Gulf detodo - 40 percent of world production of oil - through the Strait of Hormuz.

 The Ras Tanura complex in Arabia Saudi Arabia is an example of the precarious situation. According Mammoth "by espertis estimated that an airplane in flight indefinitely Laras Tanura could disable and to create a snapshot of the oil price peak of $ 80 to $ 100 a barrel." Current prices are about $ 60 a barrel.

 This means that for those who want to invest in the oil sector Industriei? Investors should be cautious, says Cory. The purchase of stakes in companies in the monthMay was not much feedback, and invest in a company not in oil. Since the natural resources funds have diversified their oil reserves may not be sufficient to repay a decent profit. With oil futures and options, there is more risk. Now is the time for their calculations in the next few days can cost. E beroepfessionals know that 80 percent of all the alternatives are of value when it expires.





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