♪ alix: $100 oil. analysts warn of an oil price spike. total says it could happen.ow to play triple digit crude. the golden merger. mark bristow is leading the new company. how other gold makers will compete. how one oil company is trying to change the energy mix in a world where wind and solar gain market shares. ♪ alix: i'm alix steel, welcome to bloomberg "commodities edge," 30 minutes focused on the companies, physical assets and hottestbehind the commodities with the smartest voices in the business. we start with spot on. -- me is john dellanoce and richard melson. the spotlight today, $100 oil. total's ceo says it is a possibility. >> what is happening in the world today, there's a lot of development in the price of oil, in particular a lack of supply. disruption in supply. iran, venezuelan, libya. even on the opec side, they have agreed to increase production, but not so much. i think you have strong support for oil price, the getting with the demand which we find quite high. alix: do you agree about a $100 oil possibility? richard: i think it is absolutely a

oil equities cannot catch up with the oil price. why? sector is set to deliver a record cash flow and rein in spending. one theory, climate change. big oil talks a good game, cutting emissions, reduce flaring and shipping portfolios to a net -- emit less greenhouse gas, but that cost money. a new report shows the largest european oil companies is that percent of on new energies. that number will need to rise to 17% by 2025, that is billions of dollars. some companies can handle it. shell will spend $4.5 billion so it has some wiggle room, but others cannot. total spends just 3% of its budget on new injuries -- energies, and that could quintuple by 2025. at the same time, spending more money on a traditional portfolio. jpmorgan says this is a structural shift and overall will have to rise, hurting shareholder return. one reason investors are skiddish on the sector. who are the winners and who are behind the capex curve? i recently caught up with the ceo of equinor. in part, to reflect shifting trends in the energy market. eldar: we do oil

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there will also be a lot of oil. the rich gas wells also produce oil.re also a lot of oil zones that are shallower up the column that we haven't gotten to yet on the testing site. we have proven there is a lot of rich gas. there is also some dry gas. alix: when do you think you will see well results from alpine high? >> we put some out last quarter. we brought on a pad in the blackfoot area, where we drilled 12 would for wells. .- woodford wells one is a half section test. those ones have come on very nicely. we have shown several examples. our program this year is back end loaded. we have about 92 wells we will bring on. a lot of them are the back half of the year. we are constantly bringing on new wells. alix: when do you feel you were will turn from more donation to a full-scale development timeframe? >> that is a process, we are in that optimization period. we did some half-section tests. now we have converted those into full section tests. you see those results. at alpine high, we just did a half section woodford test. we will come back with 10 mor

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alix: president trump goes after opec for high oil prices -- higher oil prices. can saudi arabia and russia do anything about it? flying high on alpine high. apache ceo digs deep into the plans for alpine high. he talks about oil and gas exposure. here comes the sun. sun power breathes a sigh of relief after getting exclusion from u.s. tariffs for imported solar panels. how competitive they are over their chinese rival. alix: i'm alix steel. welcome to "bloomberg commodities edge," 30 minutes focused on the companies, physical assets, and trading behind the hottest commodities with the smartest voices in the business. spot on is our take on the big story. the spotlight is a tit-for-tat trade battle between the u.s. and china. we have you covered from all of the angles. joining me is bloomberg's nouri malik, and sterling smith, and bloomberg's metal in mining reporter joe doe. things focused on lng, the its lngpped about 7% of there are china, and $132 billion worth needed to fund a second wave of projects. wewe have very cheap gas and know how to build a vocation

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crude oil strike. the pipeline began operating in 1973, and that's when the tanker traffic in prince william sound happened. about 15 years past before the spill. the oil industry in alaska from the date oil was discovered had an enormous mind share in the state. it was instantly recognized as the biggest source of government funding. for long time it was the only source that matter. the oil industry produced money so fast in the state coffers that one of the jokes was even the alaska legislature could not waste it all. some of it was accumulated in what we call the permanent fund. some of it was spent on state services. so the oil industry besides generating all this money, they took an acute interest in politics because they are always interested in politics and taxes and in regulation. over time, their influence over the legislature became enormous. and it was almost mandatory to be oil friendly to get elected to the legislature in this state. >> who were some of the big companies that were operatin

of the shale oil industry is now demanding that the opec countries bring the oil prices back down once more and to suffer further as a result of donald trump being scared of what might happen in the midterm elections so manno share now pick countries and non opec countries are meeting tomorrow in algeria what do you think is going to happen here what will be the focus of the conversation. well let me say that tomorrow is the joint and ministerial monitoring committee meeting is not the whole older ministers of opec countries and then all think we have joined together in the last two years i think is russia and other non opec countries and then saudi arabia. and kuwait and so on letting them there no emergency ones out there really is there. yes there are there job as i'm saying that they are not supposed to decide on what to do they are a technical group not as the same are and market monitoring committee to look at the information that the technical analysts and technical group within opec and on off it have given them and look at it examine it consult with each others look at the sup

i spoke to oil ceo's to see how oil demand could be affected. >> so far the demand growth on the oile has been strong. despite some of that turmoil. >> china falls off significantly, that would have an impact on global demand, no question about that. >> i think demand will maybe not be as strong as the past years but solid. >> the trade tension is affecting the emerging market component of demand. >> there is a lot of concern about emerging markets and what is happening there, but the main growth you are seeing, there is a very robust economy in the u.s., you are seeing china, india. so we think demand will be there. we are watching it but not concerned. alix: the ceos sound positive. what do you think? >> they are trying to sound positive, but we are about to or the1998, and 1999, asian debt crisis, except the demand is twice as high. if you look at the key countries, argentina, brazil, turkey, india, it is 9 million barrels per day. that demand is going to go down. the argentina peso is down 50%. turkish lira is down 50%. brazil is going to be under pressure. consumption is going t

so 10% of oil production can come from shale oil. this has been such a sight to the industry that we achieve two results. first, and alliance between saudi arabia and russia, which was unknown and unexpected. and within opec, there is been a ,lue -- there has been a glue this time they've been pretty disciplined. they've been capable of reducing production by 2 million barrels per day, which has been the major force to move prices in the region of $50, $60, from 30. i guess you are also interested in this business friendship between saudi arabia and russia to keep business prices. paolo: fear is -- the unknown element of shale oil for russiahe trigger and saudi arabia getting together, and the rest getting along. francine: the oil industry has tricky politics. different factions, different politicians. did you like your job? paolo: i love my job, it was a fascinating job, which was a mixture between industry and foreign policy, which i found particularly fascinating. knewine: -- who you that a word on the same day. would you go into

the gas-to-oil ratio.ing means you are producing more gas, falling means you are producing more oil. investors like oil. here's the problem. a newborn well produces a lot of created, but as it grows into an adult, it produces more and more gas. it also changes the predictability of the reservoir. pioneer was hurt from rising gor in 2017, and last quarter, natural gas horizontal production in the permian rose 78%, while oil rose 37%. possible solutions? find a new well to offset the aging ones, drill in the oilier parts of the reservoir, and find ways to keep higher oil content for longer. goldman sachs thinks natural gas production growth will outpace that of shale oil. the question is, what can companies do about it? i caught up with richard dealey and asked him how he is dealing with rising gor. >> as you produce oil, your gas ratio goes up over time. we have seen the phenomena happen and we know it will happen with our horizontal wells. it is built into our production curves and forecasts. i do not thin

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prices are putting on kingdom and low oil prices are a function of the amount of oil produced in the u.s. as a result of fracking. as to whether all of this is a good or bad thing for us i'm going to come back to them. as for my second obsession who wouldn't be obsessed with with alabama brie former ceo of chesapeake love them or hate them and a lot of sentiments out there he's within of the remarkable characters that make -- business stories read like novels. one of those characters that proves the old ad is truth are of stranger than fiction over and over again you couldn't invent a guy like this. if you tried -- and he's like many of needs great characters in the business world a mix of really remarkable positive attributes with some really negative dangerous ones as well. i finished any very first story for vanity fair with a quote that i always think about and it is a quote from calvin and hob and calvin says to hobbs do you believe in the devil a supreme evil being dedicated to temptation and corruption of man. he say i'm not sure man needs the help. so i always love stories th

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that would do to the price of oil?: that is the issue. today, we have an oil price, and i think this will stay as it is for the next three or four years. every time the oil price moves shale oil in america will act as a kind of ceiling, so $70 to $75 a barrel will be the price for a few years, then the lack of investment might push prices higher, even in the region of $90 or $100, probably three or four years, and less investment unless investment picks up again, and you have all this unknown. francine: i remember chasing you around the world trying to get a comment 20 years ago when i used to cover opec. at the time, did you think it would change so quickly? did we underestimate the force that shale producers in the u.s. have become? paolo: certainly everyone underestimated the force and the volumes of shale oil. because now i have been reading that shale oil might pick up to 10 million barrels a day, so 10% of the world production can come from shale oil. now this has been such a threat to the industry that we achiev

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equity markets this morning, keep an eye on oil. oil is a bit lower.ould go after the strategic petroleum reserve. the dax is up 36.5%. ubs.ust heard from we will talk about that in a moment. paris is up. unicredit, basically saying unicredit could be looking at abm or lloyd's. interesting take on that. santander gets the dealmaker in play. he moves houses. all the deck chairs are changing in the banks. 2019 is going to be the deal year for banks. nejra: something we are focusing on this our in the europe session. looking back at asia we see a mixed session, a pullback in japanese equities. of shanghai composite, one the biggest gainers, up 1.3% after the msci is increasing the weight of shares in a global index from next year. a mixed picture in asia. we are focusing on the 10 year yield. some interesting thoughts from ubs. overweight treasuries. the 10 year yield on a 309 handle. we did touch 3.1%. that is quite close to that 2018 high we hit. , near aioned oil, brent four-year high, pushing back. goldman pouring water on calls for $100 oil, saying t

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speaking of oil.ind it more discipline -- difficult to purchase crude with sanctions against iran. we discussed where oil prices are headed. >> there is a lot of uncertainty in the next month. what will happen with the iran sanctions? will that oil come off the market or go back on the market? can see volatility going up or down. overall, the stock prices are low. volatility is the word from now until the end of the year. >> what happened the last time with the iran sanctions? >> there is more pressure on iran sanctions this time. whether it is the chinese or the indians are the japanese, the sanctions are such now that they will have a hard time leasing the ships and the insurance to move the oil. even if people so they would buy it. everyone is being cautious. what are the long-term implications of this for you and for the market? >> we will continue to plan our company. ,il prices have come back up the industry is not off to the races now spending capital we would be really careful. stock levels ar

from high oil prices. we have a sliding scale of taxes and if they will price goes up it is the government of that takes this profit this incremental profit but not the companies they get just a very small proportion of the incremental value ok and sat me what i did a country could step up as production is iraq able to do that for example. i think iraq is mired in its own issues a bus full of protests and that's the main oil city in iraq i think trump the reason he puts pressure on saudi arabia is because he wants the saudis to do it it was the saudis to be the ones to flood the market and from his perspective he says look i took iran out of the game i want you go you guys now can take the market share the saudis are not seeing it that way with regards to donald trump i think the oil is there that there is the capacity to fill those two million barrels if opec genuinely do decided to do so however the problem is opec are not necessarily happy with the treatment of iran they're not of the which they do the

those affect trade flows of oil.mpact of sanctions and the cost of steel going up by $100 million in the but for now come in the impacts are not there and the market is anticipating things to but that is where the volatility comes in because no one is sure right now. yvonne: that was the bp ceo bob dudley speaking to alix steel and david westin. rishaad: coming up, the former google china president says some chinese tech is already way .head of u.s. peers we have had thoughts on the tech race. that is on the way. ♪ rishaad: we are back. this is "bloomberg markets: china open." having a look at some stores trending across the bloomberg universe. tictoc has sold the latest news from the united nations general assembly. video feeds of key speeches as well. meanwhile,bscribers, the surprise move by buying sometime there -- bank santander. we have a look at asia's $22 trillion succession problem, business is grappling with handing over the reins to dozens s as they fightr it out. yvonne: technology lies at the heart of th

all these things can quickly turn if -- oil hurts around hits around -- if oil hits around $100 a barrelrishaad: what about the ruby itself? rupeet -- the p itself? >> they imposed tariffs on things like air-conditioners, washing machines. nonessential import items. that is about 1.5 -- 0.5% of gdp. do, theperhaps will next couple of weeks, they will raise interest rates perhaps as early as next week. plus, i think what is more important is what the traders are asking for. oil importers, taking them away from the market. ae r.b.i. could perhaps open window for oil companies to take the pressure away from the ee.lar rup that should help the currency and give a little bit of relief. yvonne: you mentioned the threat of oil hitting $100. change?kly could things >> very quickly. the government has resisted the temptation and allow the oil price rises to pass on to the consumer. india has an election next year. if push comes to shove and oil prices continue to rise, the consumer will not be able to take that and the government will have to absorb the losses. in which case, things will go off b

yeah, did you know oil prices are up 39% in a year in fact, oil has been a better investment over thep 500, the dow, the nasdaq, facebook, 23 dow stocks and every single commodity except hot rolled steel which has been subject to tariffs. oil is trumping all the major indexes. that's it for "worldwide exchange." it was a very, very busy thursday thanks for joining us. we'll see you tomorrow "squawk box," that team, do not miss it, they're up next ignition sequence starts. 10... 9... guidance is internal. 6... 5... 4... 3... 2... 1... ♪ >>> good morning president trump making headlines on many topics including the world of business, from the trade war with china to nafta negotiations with canada see what he said about canada? all the way to the fed's interest rate hike we'll show you what he said and what the reaction was. >>> and we'll have reaction from our "squawk" newsmaker of the hour, mick mulvaney will join us on the set to talk trade and taxes. >>> and consumers are not finding their way into bed bath & beyond stores. the retailer missed on its latest earnings report the stock

>>> oil alert. crude oil continuing its surge higher shell's ceo weighing in on the big move. >>> president trump speaking before the united nations later on this morning. we'll let you know what to expect. >>> a big moment for brexit. a major meeting is about to get under way. we're live in london with the latest >>> a pair of high-level departures at facebook. >>> and starbucks making big changes in an effort to jolt sales. the details ahead on this tuesday, september 25th as "worldwide exchange" begins right now. ♪ >>> good morning welcome from wherever in the world you may be watching. i'm brian sullivan happy birthday to superman and luke skywalker >>> futures are not doing a whole lot right now. maybe we need a market superman. we'll wait and see what goes on with trade, brett kavanaugh, rod rosenstein we're seeing dow futures up a bit, 38 points now the big money moves have been coming in oil. crude oil once again today is higher overseas traded brent, 82 a barrel u.s. traded oil up about 72.

from high oil prices. we have a sliding scale of taxes and if they will price goes up it is the government of that takes this profit this incremental profit but not the companies they get just a very small proportion of the incremental value ok and sadly what i don't country could step up as production is iraq able to do that for example. i think iraq is mired in its own issues a bus full of protests and that's the main oil city in iraq i think trump the reason he puts pressure on saudi arabia is because he wants the saudis to do it it was the saudis to be the ones to flood the market and from his perspective he says look i took iran out of the game i want you go you guys now can take the market share the saudis are not seeing it that way with regards to donald trump i think the oil is there that there is the capacity to fill those two million barrels if opec genuinely do decided to do so however the problem is opec are not necessarily happy with the treatment of iran they're not of the which they do the a

now, the price of oil. we we re times. now, the price of oil.st year, because it was tanking. a real problem for many big economies around the world and companies. now it isa around the world and companies. now it is a 1—way bet. we have had brent crude playing around the $80 a barrel mark. now this article in gulf news, we are looking at $100 a barrel in the new year. the big question as to whether we will see triple digits in oil prices. 0pec has said it will not increase supply because of the sanctions from the us against iran reducing by sobral. the problem with a high oil price is that it problem with a high oil price is thatitis problem with a high oil price is that it is the consumer. when we go to the petrol—bombs everything becomes more expensive in economies like the uk —— hopes the consumer. especially in emerging economies, not all of them are exporting countries. india imports about 80% of its oil. that sucks weighing on global growth, at a time when there isa global growth, at a time when there is a lot of uncertainty. —— that sta

oil prices.he group said it would boost output only of customers requested it. we spoke to alexander novak about his country's output capacity. let's see how september ends because the month is not yet over. if we are looking at all these ofbers, we have $47,000 out 300,000. that means are still within the october cut level. we have always been within those levels. i would like to once again underscore the fact that this is with all the agreements that were made in june 2018. i would like to remind that we should increase output by about one million barrels. so far, we only managed to do five or thousand barrels. why they once again recommended achieving 100% conformity. much extra oil production can you put into the market by december? terms of: in short-term potential, it's what a couple hundred thousand barrels. prospects, a lot depends on what we will ready to be -- what we will be ready to give. no decisions have been made yet. know, we have quite a complex system. currently ist reviewing ot

and one of the cures for higher oil prices is higher oil prices. we know what happens just the supply-demand equation when we get to these levels. and we think that we're probably at a high point. we don't see $100 oil in the offing. we think that we're probably at the highs here. but yes. if oil continued to climb from here, that certainly affects u.s. growth and global growth. haidi: this morning, we showed u.s. consumer confidence unexpectedly jumped to the highest level in 18 years in september. is all of this optimism justified given that trade tensions are still looming? david: well, you know, we look at that, and when we wlook at the hard data that's continued to do quite well, whether we're talking about earnings or g.d.p. and the outlook thereof, or the soft data, whether consumer sentiment or business sentiment, those numbers that come and go. and that was a fantastic number that we got today for consumer sentiment. and we think that it's -- the markets and consumers, investors, businesses, looking through the tariffs to the other side ma

oil prices are higher today after donald trump's demand that opec take rapid action to reduce oil prices got a tepid response. the group said it would boost output only if customers requested it. in contrast to the dramatic u-turns policies tweets provoked earlier this year, saudi arabia and their allies stopped short of promising specific extra volumes of crude. >> we can bring an additional 1 million and a half barrels. we have repeatedly said that. we have brought 100 million starting in june. that is subject to demand. juliette: brett kavanaugh's nomination to the supreme court is at risk after new sexual misconduct allegations emerged. the new yorker magazine reported that senate democrats are investigating an incident that took place during his college years at yale. that comes as the senate judiciary committee prepares to hear testimony from a woman claiming he assaulted her in high school. allegation in the white house issued a statement saying it stands firmly behind his nomination. the u.k. opposition labor party is raising the pressure on theesa may, proposing option of a nati

this from antack oil price angle.e are trying to figure out what the president -- if what the president says today will have any impact on the oil price. we spoke to the bp ceo earlier today. what is going to happen with the iran sanctions? where will it go back on the market? you could see volatility up or down. there's some upward pressure here. volatility is the word from now to the end of the year. guy: let's bring in stuart wallace from london. our executive editor for commodities. the president will talk about iran. will it be anything new here? an incrediblys is jumpy market. right, thetely stockpile levels are dropping, there's some doubt about whether there's enough barrels in the market to compensate for iran. the return of the sanctions will be much tougher than anyone assumed. -- in terms of the actual result, we've seen japan and south korea stop buying iranian oil. chinas questions about buying iranian oil. they are the biggest customers. sending signals to the rest of the world -- it helps us gauge how

tack on -- texas would not be texas without the oil. but i do think people migrated to texas they see it as a freebie. and most industries are not social welfare organizations they don't care about those consequences of behavior and texas is still very stingy with it social net if you subtract 20 from public schools which is the primary obligation because you are feeling your children are not providing children with your workers of the future it is a conundrum. texas can afford to be more generous and farsighted. there could be some trauma left over and it was never rich the way people think of it as being rich there are more millionaires per capita, certainly in connecticut but south dakota i think? someplace you would think really? when good times are in texas the oversize dollars for sale in the airport so you know the oil is flowing. but it never really flows down to the people but that doesn't mean there was not money gushing into the state. but also in our state government with the liberals with an $8 million surplus. it was a $6

oil is now within four-year highs. that's after the opec meeting and lack of discussion there about increasing output on the back of increasing dwindling capacity that was the mood in energy. let's get back to one of our top stories, beijing says it is difficult for trade talks to proceed with the u.s. putting a knife to china's neck. the chinese vice commerce minister said it is down to the will of washington as to when negotiations can restart he said a solution to the dispute can be found if both sides are on equal footing the director of the national trade council at the white house said it will be tough to reach a deal as china engages in so many egregious practices. but the door is still open >> our position is simple. we're happy to listen to the chinese whenever they want to talk the chinese are well aware of the problems which we've raised. ambassador lighthizer in a 400-page report outlined all the unfair trade practices that china does, in just one space, the intellectual properties space. in my own office w

the world's number two oil producer and meaning higher prices would also mean higher revenue. you know well and oil prices already have been on an elevated basis for quite some time and yes that has led to an increase of production comes to fracking as you mention oil prices here in new york also gaining a good two percent on monday and this year it is pretty likely that the u.s. actually will become the biggest producer on earth just to give you a rough idea of u.s. oil production all about doubled in the pasta decades why output from saudi arabia or russia pretty much remained the same and we also saw that oil companies actually traded quite to the upside here on monday without those oil stocks and the losses here on wall street would have been even higher against go to new york thank you now here in germany and. heads of carmakers on sunday to discuss additional measures to avoid large scale diesel vehicle bans in german cities these so-called diesel summit ended in conclusively there will be more talks later this week meanwhile some parts of the ottoman model of industry a