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Energy / Crude Oil

Permian Bottlenecks Come At The Worst Moment

Jul 03, 2018 at 17:11 | Nick Cunningham

The growing number of supply outages around the world are causing the oil market to become a lot more volatile, putting extra emphasis on every barrel that does or does…

Do Crude Producers Really Want Higher Oil Prices?

Jul 03, 2018 at 17:02 | ZeroHedge

Major states buying oil from Iran are unlikely to heed the U.S. call to drop imports; key allies want a waiver to avoid sanctions; OPEC, meanwhile, will have trouble boosting…

OPEC Production Jumps In June As Saudis Near Production Record

Jul 03, 2018 at 10:56 | Tsvetana Paraskova

OPEC’s oil production in June increased by 320,000 bpd from May to stand at 32.32 million bpd, as the cartel’s biggest producer Saudi Arabia produced close-to-record volumes, according to a…

Saudi Arabia Won’t Bring 2 Million Bpd Online

Jul 02, 2018 at 17:16 | Nick Cunningham

President Trump said in a tweet on Saturday that Saudi Arabia agreed to boost oil production by 2 million barrels per day (mb/d), a claim that surely came as news…

What Trump’s Tweet Actually Means For Oil

Jul 02, 2018 at 16:49 | Cyril Widdershoven

After a weekend of turmoil, largely caused by President Trump’s twitter diplomacy, the international oil cartel could soon be facing a new crisis. As previously reported, Saudi Arabia and Iran…

India Folds Under Pressure, Halts Iranian Oil Imports

Jul 02, 2018 at 15:43 | Tim Daiss

In more dour news for Iran, India (the world’s fourth largest oil importer) is planning to cut oil imports from the embattled OPEC member. India’s oil ministry has asked refiners…

Saudi King To Trump: We Will Boost Oil Output If Needed

Jul 02, 2018 at 10:31 | Irina Slav

The White House has dismissed a suggestion that President Trump made in a tweet that Saudi Arabia is ready and willing to increase oil production by up to 2…

Libya Stops Pumping Oil

Jul 02, 2018 at 08:59 | Irina Slav

Libya’s National Oil Corporation has declared force majeure on crude oil loadings from two oil terminals, which effectively removed 850,000 bpd from the country’s production, Libyan media report. “Despite…

Sanctions On Iran May Send Oil Prices Above $90 Next Year

Jun 29, 2018 at 17:08 | Tsvetana Paraskova

According to Bank of America Merrill Lynch, oil prices will hit $90 a barrel by the second quarter of 2019, as Iranian oil barrels are removed from the market…

Mexico’s Oil Crescent Faces A Perfect Storm

Jun 29, 2018 at 17:00 | Irina Slav

Most analyses of the 2014 oil price crash and its effects tend to focus on the oil industry itself. There are bitter accounts about how the price crash affected the…

U.S. Oil Exports Overtake OPEC’s Number 3

Jun 29, 2018 at 08:59 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Two and a half years after the U.S. removed export restrictions on its crude oil, its exports hit 3 million bpd —the latest all-time high set in recent months.…

This Country Just Started Pumping Oil For The First Time Ever

Jun 28, 2018 at 17:23 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Ethiopia began on Thursday its first-ever crude oil production under a test production scheme that will see initial production of 450 barrels of oil per day. Ethiopia, a rather…

The Demand Downside For Oil Prices

Jun 28, 2018 at 12:28 | Nick Cunningham

Oil supply outages are multiplying around the world and are likely to grow worse in the second half of 2018. The disruptions reduce the odds of a supply-driven slide in…

Tehran: Taking Iran’s Oil Out Of The Market Is ‘Impossible’

Jun 27, 2018 at 09:43 | Tsvetana Paraskova

The removal of Iranian oil exports from the global market by November, as the U.S. has asked from its allies, is impossible, an oil official in Iran told the…

Hefty Inventory Draw Boosts Oil Prices

Jun 27, 2018 at 09:41 | Irina Slav

A day after the American Petroleum Institute helped push crude prices even higher by estimating a 9.228-million-barrel draw in U.S. crude oil inventories, the EIA confirmed the draw,…

Oil Jumps As Trump Asks Allies To Cut Off Iranian Oil

Jun 26, 2018 at 17:36 | Nick Cunningham

The Trump administration is going to extreme lengths to disrupt as much oil from Iran as possible, and the implications for the oil market could be severe. When the Obama…

Is The Eagle Ford About To Boom Again?

Jun 26, 2018 at 16:59 | Irina Slav

When the U.S. Geological Survey published its updated resource estimate for the Wolfcamp Basin in the Permian a couple of years ago, it added fresh fuel to an already major…

Saudi Arabia, Kuwait Halt Oil Production In Neutral Zone

Jun 26, 2018 at 15:38 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Oil production the neutral zone between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait has stopped until the parties reach an agreement, Kuwaiti state news agency KUNA reported on Tuesday, citing Kuwait’s Oil…

Iran Blames OPEC For Vague Output Agreement

Jun 26, 2018 at 10:48 | Tim Daiss

OPEC and its non-OPEC partners, including Russia, have agreed to increase oil production after meetings on Friday and Saturday. The production increase will start in July by “measurable” supply…

Gasoline Price Set To Soar Despite OPEC+ Deal

Jun 25, 2018 at 15:37 | Irina Slav

Nearly everyone expected the OPEC+ decision to start raising oil production on Friday, with U.S. drivers excited to get some relief from high gas prices at the start of driving…

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