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MAY 2020Global auto index: Tough road ahead for car makers
The global automotive industry faces perhaps its greatest challenge ever in the weeks and months ahead, trying to reopen amid a global pandemic.
During the recent height of the pandemic, it looked like things couldn’t get much worse.
The easing of COVID-19 cases provided an opening for many to restart, but the tough times are far from over.
The long-term question is whether they can stay open.
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MAY 2020Story map: Iraq Water Supply
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MAY 2020Story map: China Crude Inventories
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MAY 2020As drilling slows, Halliburton’s Duncan, OK yard fills
Halliburton, the world’s second-largest oil field services company, was formed in Duncan, Oklahoma more than one hundred years ago.
According to company lore, Eric P. Halliburton began an oil well cement business in Duncan in 1919 after borrowing a wagon, mules and a pump.
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MAY 2020Story map: How We Use SAR
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MAY 2020Video: Global Oil Storage Trends & COVID-19
An unprecedented decline in oil demand has caused inventories to build sharply in 2020. The potential for storage to "run out" by this summer has been widely raised, sowing panic in the oil market.
Is this true? How full are global crude inventories? Do inventory levels vary depending on geography? Where are stocks highest? Have any locations hit a plateau?
These are some of the questions we covered in a recent webinar using Ursa inventory data. Click below to watch the video.
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MAY 2020Wuhan closes temporary hospitals, could others be next?
Leishenshan Hospital opened early February to treat the overflow of COVID-19 patients during some of the worst days of the crisis in Wuhan.
It was the second of 16 temporary hospitals built in the Chinese city at the heart of the coronavirus pandemic.
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MAY 2020Tracking the US’s busiest freight rail hub
Trains are the dominant mode of transportation for moving freight—from grain, coal and ethanol to automobiles, food, chemicals and consumer goods.
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APR 2020Story map: Port Monitoring
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APR 2020Oil storage rising: Cushing and beyond
The amount of oil held in storage at Cushing, Oklahoma led to one of the biggest stories in the world this week.
WTI oil futures traded Monday (April 20) in negative territory for the first time ever. You got paid to buy oil.
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APR 2020Using satellite imagery to monitor China amid COVID-19
There are signs of economic life in China after months of paralysis.
A car factory in Tianjin. A freight railyard in Wuhan. Oil storage tanks across China.
The impact of China’s lockdown was highly visible in these places. Now, the signs are pointing in a different direction, suggesting efforts are underway to revive the world’s second-largest economy.
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APR 2020Lessons learned: Inventory trends post-coronavirus
How much longer before the world’s crude inventory storage tanks fill to maximum capacity?
It’s become the dominant question in the oil market after the combination of a global economic paralysis and Saudi-Russia price war resulted in a staggering oversupply.