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The helicopter was normally based at Aberdeen Airport but had been based at Sumburgh Airport since 3 November 1986 to operate a shuttle service from the Brent oilfield in the East Shetland Basin. [1] On 6 November the first flight was delayed due to an oil leak from an engine gearbox that was soon rectified and the aircraft left Sumburgh at 08: ...
The 2020 stock market crash was a major and sudden global stock market crash that began on 20 February 2020 and ended on 7 April. The crash was the fastest fall in global stock markets in financial history and the most devastating crash since the Wall Street Crash of 1929. The crash, however, only caused a short-lived bear market, and in April ...
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).
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Shell initially named all of its UK oil fields after seabirds in alphabetical order by discovery – Auk, Brent, Cormorant, Dunlin, Eider, Fulmar and so on. Brent refers to the brent goose, and in turn gave its initials to the geologic subdivisions of the Middle Jurassic-age Brent Group that make up the field: Broom, Rannoch, Etive, Ness and Tarbert formations, with each name representing a ...
West Texas Intermediate crude rose more than 3.5% to settle at $76.57 per barrel while Brent crude futures , the international benchmark price, briefly hit $80 before settling at $79.76, the ...
The main stock indexes in Britain and Germany were down by almost 7%. Japan’s benchmark closed down 5.1% while Australia’s lost 7.3% and the Shanghai market in China was off 3%.
Medium term Brent oil prices since May 1987 New York Mercantile Exchange prices for West Texas Intermediate since 2000, monthly overlaid on daily prices to show the variation Oil prices for Brent in US$ (blue) and Euro (red) From the mid-1980s to September 2003, the inflation adjusted price of a barrel of crude oil on NYMEX was generally under ...