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The 1980s oil glut was a significant surplus of crude oil caused by falling demand following the 1970s energy crisis.The world price of oil had peaked in 1980 at over US$35 per barrel (equivalent to $129 per barrel in 2023 dollars, when adjusted for inflation); it fell in 1986 from $27 to below $10 ($75 to $28 in 2023 dollars).
Ohio oil production peaked in 1896 at 24 million barrels, but Ohio continued as the leading oil state until 1902, when that title was taken by Oklahoma. [4] The Trenton limestone produced more than 380 million barrels of oil and 2 trillion cubic feet of gas, peaking in 1896 at 23.9 million barrels of oil.
A combination of factors led a plunge in U.S. oil import requirements and a record high volume of worldwide oil inventories in storage, and a collapse in oil prices that continues into 2016. [77] [78] Between June 2014 and January 2015, according to the World Bank, the collapse in the price of oil was the third largest since 1986. [29]
Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images By Abinaya Vijayaraghavan United States Steel (X) said it would temporarily idle its pipe manufacturing plant in Lorain, Ohio, and lay ...
New data from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources shows that oil and gas production in the state has more than doubled as of the third quarter of 2013. The Utica Shale pumped out 1.3 million ...
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The world price of oil was above US$125 per barrel ($790/m 3) in 2012, and remained relatively strong above $100 until September 2014, after which it entered a sharp downward spiral, falling below $30 by January 2016.
Record-setting oil prices in the first half of 2008 and economic weakness in the second half of the year prompted a 1.2 Mbbl (190,000 m 3)/day contraction in US consumption of petroleum products, representing 5.8% of total US consumption, the largest annual decline since 1980 at the climax of the 1979 energy crisis. [22]