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Summary Of Oil Industry Struggles To Break Even By Sarah Kent

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According to the article in the Wall Street Journal “Oil Industry Struggles to Break Even” by Sarah Kent, Kent explains the difficulty faced by the biggest producers of oil in the United States. She takes a closer look at the struggle of Exxon Mobil, BP, and Shell. These four companies have become the biggest oil companies in the United States alone. According to Kent, analysts of the Wall Street Journal as well as other financial institutions have analyzed the raw data which indicated that Exxon, BP, and Shell are hardly breaking even. In 2016 alone they found themselves absorbing more debt in order to fulfill the dividends of their investors. This harsh deficit on these companies’ books has lead investors to begin to lose confidence in the
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