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Energy / Crude Oil

EIA Inventory Report Pushes Oil Prices Lower

Feb 21, 2019 at 10:07 | Irina Slav

The Energy Information Administration reported a crude oil inventory build of 3.7 million barrels for the week to February 15, versus an increase of 3.6 million barrels in…

How Sanctions Are Helping The U.S. Become A Net Oil Exporter

Feb 20, 2019 at 14:05 | Haley Zaremba

It’s easy to forget now, but just a few short years ago the United States was the biggest oil importer in the world by a considerable margin, and sold exactly…

Morgan Stanley: New Oil Discovery Could Spur China’s Shale Boom

Feb 19, 2019 at 13:52 | Tsvetana Paraskova

A PetroChina test oil well at a shale field in western China could finally mean a strong commercial potential for shale oil for the first time in the world’s…

Cheaper Natural Gas Is Coming To Europe

Feb 19, 2019 at 13:36 | Irina Slav

The European Union recently updated its gas pipeline rules in a bid to assuage concerns about its deepening dependence on Russian gas. The move was generally praised by Nord…

Why The Oil Rally Isn’t Over Yet

Feb 18, 2019 at 16:07 | Nick Cunningham

Crude oil sentiment is shifting in a bullish direction, with OPEC+ cuts and a growing list of serious outages taking supply off of the market. Saudi Arabia recently signaled that…

Bank Of America: Oil ‘Anchored’ Until 2024

Feb 18, 2019 at 15:49 | Nick Cunningham

Brent oil prices should trade between a relatively narrow range of $50 to $70 per barrel through 2024, with prices “anchored” around $60, according to a new report from Bank…

Does Saudi Arabia Really Have As Much Oil As Analysts Think?

Feb 18, 2019 at 14:02 | Robert Rapier

Officially, Venezuela has the world’s largest crude oil reserves with 303 billion barrels of proved reserves. But, a lot of this oil is extra-heavy crude oil, and may not be…

U.S.-China Trade Deal Could Boost Gasoline Prices

Feb 18, 2019 at 13:08 | Tsvetana Paraskova

After months of persistent concerns that global economy will suffer from a heated U.S.-China trade war, leading to lower oil demand growth in the world, renewed hopes that an agreement…

World’s Largest Offshore Oil Field Partially Shut Down

Feb 15, 2019 at 09:10 | Irina Slav

The Safaniyah oil field in Saudi Arabia—the world’s largest—is producing at a reduced capacity after a ship’s anchor cut a main power cable, Reuters reports citing a knowledgeable source.…

Emerging ‘Quality’ Problem To Haunt Oil Markets

Feb 13, 2019 at 17:07 | Nick Cunningham

Quality matters, not quantity. That was the message from the International Energy Agency (IEA) in its latest Oil Market Report. The world has plenty of oil, but perhaps not the…

Oil Rises Despite Rising Oil, Product Inventories

Feb 13, 2019 at 09:49 | Irina Slav

Crude oil prices inched down today after the Energy Information Administration reported a crude oil inventory build of 3.6 million barrels for the week to February 8. This compares…

Fifty Shades Of Shale Oil

Feb 12, 2019 at 16:33 | Nawar Alsaadi

The rise of U.S. tight oil production over the last several years has upended the oil market and challenged OPEC’s hold on oil prices. This seemingly relentless growth in U.S.…

OPEC’s Next Big Crisis

Feb 12, 2019 at 16:16 | Nick Cunningham

OPEC is having some success in heading off another oil market downturn, but over the medium-term the cartel faces much more serious risks. “OPEC's production growth outlook over the medium…

The Biggest Threat To Oil Market Stability

Feb 11, 2019 at 17:19 | Nick Cunningham

The oil market should be mostly balanced this year, although “policy risk” will be a much larger driver for oil prices than the underlying fundamentals, according to a new report…

Maduro Asks OPEC For Help As U.S. Sanctions Bite

Feb 11, 2019 at 09:23 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Nicolas Maduro has asked OPEC to support one of its founding members—Venezuela—against the U.S. sanctions on the Latin American country’s oil industry and denounce the “shameless dispossession” of Venezuelan assets,…

South Africa Oil Discovery Could Be A Game-Changer

Feb 08, 2019 at 17:13 | Tsvetana Paraskova

One of the promising hotspots for oil and gas exploration drilling this year—South Africa’s offshore—has just yielded a massive natural gas and condensate find that could open a new exploration…

Demand Concerns Drive Oil Markets

Feb 08, 2019 at 17:09 | Jim Hyerczyk

U.S. West Texas Intermediate oil futures are trading lower for the week, putting the market in a position to post a potentially bearish technical closing price reversal top on the…

Alberta Oil Cuts To End Sooner Than Planned

Feb 07, 2019 at 14:18 | Irina Slav

Canadian crude oil is already expensive enough for the production cuts to stop making sense: some producers have already started rolling them back far ahead of schedule. This is what…

How Washington Could Spoil The OPEC+ Alliance

Feb 06, 2019 at 17:27 | Nick Cunningham

OPEC and Russia are officially working to establish a formal alliance that would allow for the indefinite management of the oil market. The OPEC/non-OPEC coalition, often referred to as “OPEC+”,…

Is This The Point Of No Return For Maduro?

Feb 06, 2019 at 14:14 | Editorial Dept

Things have certainly moved into a higher gear in Venezuela, with a genuine diarchy vying for control over the country’s resources and populace. The alleged smuggling of gold reserves, politicized…

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