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Oil at $95 a Barrel Discovered in SEC Rules on Reserves: Energy
2015-03-05 00:06:23| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission requires drillers to calculate the value of their oil reserves every year using average prices from the first trading days in each of the previous 12 months. Because oil didn't start its freefall to about $45 till after the OPEC meeting in late November, companies in their latest regulatory filings used $95 a barrel to figure out how much oil they could profitably produce and what it's worth.
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