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Oil Demand Likely To Surprise To The Upside

Oil Demand Likely To Surprise To The Upside

Commodity analysts at Standard Chartered…

Is China’s Oil Demand Set For A Major Bounce Back?

Is China’s Oil Demand Set For A Major Bounce Back?

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Have Oil Prices Peaked

May 25, 2018 at 16:57 | Nick Cunningham

Brent recently hit $80 per barrel, which ushered in a flood of predictions for when we might hit $100 per barrel. But Saudi Arabia and Russia just crushed those dreams,…

Is The OPEC Deal Finally Done?

May 25, 2018 at 16:27 | Editorial Dept

Friday May 25, 2018 In the latest edition of the Numbers Report, we’ll take a look at some of the most interesting figures put out this week in the energy…

Global Energy Advisory 25th May 2018

May 25, 2018 at 16:11 | Editorial Dept

OPEC has signaled it may decide to ease the oil production cuts it agreed to implement in late 2016 on the back of Venezuela’s catastrophic production decline and the pending…

Rally Unwinds As Russia, Saudis Aim To Increase Oil Output

May 25, 2018 at 16:09 | Jim Hyerczyk

U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude and internationally-favored Brent crude oil are trading sharply lower on Friday, putting the market in a position to finish the week lower for the first…

OPEC Sends Oil Prices Crashing

May 25, 2018 at 13:37 | Tom Kool

Oil prices fell drastically on Friday on the back of news that Russia and Saudi Arabia are considering an increase in their oil production, bringing an end to the production…

U.S. Rig Count Rises Amid Crashing Oil Prices

May 25, 2018 at 12:18 | Julianne Geiger

US drillers added 13 rigs to the number of oil and gas rigs this week, according to Baker Hughes, with oil rigs increasing by 15 and gas rigs dipping…

Maduro Vows To Double Oil Production With Help From OPEC

May 25, 2018 at 10:39 | Irina Slav

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has promised to start increasing the crisis-stricken country’s oil production during his second six-year term in office. AFP reports that during his inauguration speech, Maduro…

Oil Slides As Saudis, Russia Consider 1 Million Bpd Output Boost

May 25, 2018 at 09:21 | Tsvetana Paraskova

OPEC’s largest producer Saudi Arabia and its key non-OPEC partner in the production cut deal, Russia, are discussing lifting the combined oil production of the countries from the pact by…

Who’s To Blame For High Gasoline Prices?

May 24, 2018 at 16:54 | Nick Cunningham

As retail gasoline prices rise to $3 per gallon across the United States, gas prices are a hot political topic in Washington once again, with the Democrats hoping to slam…

Extreme Weather Causes Production Outages In Libya

May 24, 2018 at 16:22 | Irina Slav

A Libyan oil company has had to significantly reduce oil production at its fields because the hot weather has caused several turbines to stop working. The company is Agoco, a…

Pacific Island Seeks Better Deal With Exxon On LNG Expansion

May 24, 2018 at 16:18 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Papua New Guinea, an island nation in the Pacific, expected a windfall in government revenue from the US$19-billion PNG LNG liquefied natural gas project led by Exxon that started…

Oil Prices Fall Despite Iran, Venezuela, Libyan Supply Outages

May 24, 2018 at 15:14 | Julianne Geiger

The WTI crude and Brent crude benchmarks fell on Thursday, despite multiple production outage fears in major producing countries, either real or prospective, including Venezuela, Libya, and Iran.…

Iran's Demands: Europe Must Guarantee It Will Buy Iranian Oil

May 24, 2018 at 14:05 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has issued five demands to the European Union (EU)—including Europe guaranteeing Iran’s oil will be completely sold—that European leaders could find quite difficult to…

Shell Makes Large Deepwater Discovery In Gulf Of Mexico

May 24, 2018 at 13:07 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Shell has made a large deepwater exploration discovery in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, just 13 miles from its Appomattox project that is expected to start production by the end…

Are Venezuelan And Iranian Oil Exports About To Plunge?

May 24, 2018 at 12:04 | Matt Smith

The threat of falling oil supply from both Iran and Venezuela looms large amid geopolitical tension, economic fears and sanctions. All the while, both are scrambling to maintain flows to…

Increasing WTI-Brent Spread Points At Higher Crude Prices

May 24, 2018 at 10:20 | ZeroHedge

Here’s a new indicator for you: It seems that the difference between the price of oil here and abroad is a measure of tightness in the market, with a rising…

Rosneft Discovers Oil Field In Iraq

May 24, 2018 at 09:33 | Irina Slav

Russia’s Rosneft has discovered a new oil field in southwestern Iraq, the company said. The first well in the field, named Salman, was drilled at over 4,000 meters and it…

Permian Growth Is Reaching Its Limits

May 23, 2018 at 15:35 | Nick Cunningham

The Permian isn’t just suffering from a bottleneck for oil, but also for natural gas. In 2016, for instance, gas flows leaving the Permian typically clocked in at about 3.6…

EV Revolution Could Wipe Out $21 Trillion In Oil Revenue

May 23, 2018 at 15:35 | Irina Slav

Hardly a day goes by without a research company releasing yet another report forecasting the future of electric vehicles and all related industries, oil included. Some of these are skeptical,…

Mexico’s Oil Sector Set For A Jolt

May 23, 2018 at 15:35 | Nick Cunningham

Several years on from the semi-privatization of its oil sector, Mexico has lined up tens of billions of dollars of potential investment in offshore drilling. But just as the fruits…

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