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The fluctuating prices in response…
Global oil production surged in June “as producers opened the taps,” according to a new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA). OPEC was a major culprit, with Libya and…
The steady recovery of oil production in Libya and Nigeria in recent months has prompted OPEC to consider limiting the output of the two African producers that are currently…
The rebalancing of the oil market is taking too long, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in its Oil Market Report on Thursday. Since the record net long position…
U.S. construction and fracking major Halliburton believes the oil market crash that has lasted three years will cause oil prices to spike by the year 2020, according to World Oil.…
Will the world’s appetite for crude oil ever be sated? For decades, it was widely presumed that demand for petroleum would grow steadily in line with the expansion of the…
The sentiment in the oil market has soured so much over the past two months that investors seem to be reacting to every piece of bearish news, and largely ignoring…
Oil prices could soon fall below $40 per barrel if there isn’t a sustained drawdown in U.S. crude inventories and rig counts or without bold action from OPEC. That prediction…
U.S. shale oil is in the spotlight once again, this time not as a deterrent to a price improvement, but as the future of the global oil industry. It’s just…
Optimism about crude oil demand in the coming weeks has helped prices to recover somewhat, but the sustainability of the improvement is highly uncertain. Bank of America Merrill Lynch is…
The latest rally in oil prices ran up against a wall yet again, and the same fears about oversupply have not receded in the slightest. The expectation from most oil…
High demand for air conditioning and fuel for road trips make summer the best time for the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to cut production or exports to end…
The lower-for-longer oil prices are leading to the fastest drop in crude output of mature conventional fields in 25 years as companies cut spending on older fields, Bloomberg reports, citing…
Dispensing his usual dose of optimistic crude oil buzzkill, Bloomberg energy strategist Julian Lee points out something troubling to both OPEC and those who are hoping that the latest…
Crude oil prices could jump to US$60 a barrel by this year’s end thanks to growing demand and lower OPEC supply, according to Citigroup’s senior energy analyst Eric Lee, as…
Crude oil inventories fall 6.3 million barrels; WTI climbs from $45 to $46.50 and back Crude oil inventories decreased by approximately 6.3 million barrels in the week ended June 30.…
It is no surprise that oil prices continue to fall when you look at the rising tide of oil production around the world.Source: Financial…
Oil prices, as I have said for the last few columns, seem range-bound. But rarely do they remain range-bound for long. As oil’s pessimism begins to gain steam, oil stocks…
Six months after the implementation of the OPEC production cut deal to reduce output by 1.2 million barrels per day, and we should be well on our way towards rebalancing…
Seasonality is a concept well understood by the capital markets. Take adages such as “Sell in May and go away,” which reputedly has its origin in the North American mining…
While the oil market is increasingly questioning if OPEC/non-OPEC’s production cuts have any effect, Russia’s Energy Minister Alexander Novak weighed in on Thursday, saying that the production cut pact…