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The oil prices were seen rising to hit $71.38 per barrel in March 2021, marking the highest since the beginning of the pandemic in January 2020. [116] The oil price rise followed a missile drone attack on Saudi Arabia's Aramco oil facility by Yemen’s Houthi rebels. [117] The United States said it was committed to defending Saudi Arabia. [118]
The Company was founded by four South African goldmining concerns in 1935 to explore for oil in Venezuela and initially traded as the Ultramar Exploration Co. Ltd. It changed its name to the Ultramar Co. Ltd in 1940. [1] It established an operation in Canada, now known as Ultramar Corporation, in 1961. [1]
In 1991, Lasmo, a British oil company, bought Ultramar plc and in 1992 Lasmo spun off the North American refining and marketing operations which became known as Ultramar Corporation. [3] In 1994, Ultramar acquired Sergaz (founded in 1971 by André Ducharme) and Sunoco's Quebec gas stations. Some gas stations still operate under Sergaz but most ...
WTI crude oil prices are up nearly 8% over the past month to just under $73 per barrel, but that’s still below the $86 per barrel price seen after the Israel-Hamas war began in early October.
On April 18, 2008, the price of oil broke $117 per barrel after a Nigerian militant group claimed an attack on an oil pipeline. [30] Oil prices rose to a new high of $119.90 a barrel on April 22, 2008, [ 31 ] before dipping and then rising $3 on April 25, 2008, to $119.10 on the New York Mercantile Exchange after a news report that a ship ...
The gas price prior to reform was $0.10 US per liter with the quota of 100 liters per month per passenger car. The reform raised the price to $0.40 US per liter and later reduced the ration to 60 liters per month. The price for over-quota consumption and the imported cars were $0.70 US per liter.
Oil prices will fall to an average of $65 per barrel in 2025 amid an oversupply of crude and a backdrop of slowing demand as countries shift toward cleaner energies and forms of transportation ...
Mohawk Oil – acquired by Husky in 1998; Sunoco – owned by Suncor Energy; operated 200 stations in Ontario, since 2009 converted to Petro-Canada; Supertest Petroleum – later acquired by BP; Texaco Canada – acquired by Ultramar in 1989