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Energy / Crude Oil

China’s Oil Demand Rebounds To Pre-Coronavirus Levels

May 18, 2020 at 11:05 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Oil demand in the world’s top oil importer, China, has rebounded to pre-coronavirus levels, Bloomberg reported on Monday, citing sources with inside knowledge of China’s energy sector. China was the…

Saudi Arabia And Kuwait Halt Production At Giant Joint Oil Field

May 18, 2020 at 09:10 | Irina Slav

Saudi Arabia and Kuwait will suspend production at the Al-Khafji field, which they operate jointly, during June, Reuters reports, quoting Kuwaiti media. Al-Khafji is one of four offshore and…

The State Hit Hardest By The Oil Crash

May 15, 2020 at 17:37 | Nick Cunningham

The Texas economy has suffered a double blow from COVID-19 crisis and the collapse of the oil industry.  U.S. shale drillers had already planned on cutting…

U.S. Shale Could Crush The Oil Market Recovery

May 15, 2020 at 17:28 | Haley Zaremba

Oil markets have taken a beating around the globe, but nowhere has the pummeling been worse than in the United States shale patch, where the oil price crash…

U.S. Fracking Activity To Hit Rock Bottom In May

May 15, 2020 at 10:58 | Rystad Energy

The Covid-19 pandemic and the low oil-price environment it has created continues to affect global energy markets and activity levels by oil and gas producers. New fracking jobs in the…

How Accurate Are EIA And API Inventory Reports?

May 14, 2020 at 17:16 | Julianne Geiger

Oil markets have had yet another confusing week, this time not just because of the coronavirus and all the media attention that has garnered. But this week, disparate…

Why Russia Will Struggle To Meet Its Production Cut Quota

May 14, 2020 at 14:32 | Irina Slav

The effect of oil well shut-ins on future production has become one of the main topics of discussion in the energy media lately, what with OPEC+ cutting millions of barrels…

Saudi Arabia Cuts June Oil Exports To Asia

May 14, 2020 at 12:23 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Saudi Arabia’s oil giant Aramco has slashed by up to 30 percent its crude oil allocations to at least three buyers in Asia for June, compared to what customers had…

Iran Unlocks New Funding Stream For Oil & Gas

May 14, 2020 at 11:13 | Simon Watkins

A small and tedious-looking announcement of the ratification of a bylaw relating to the issuance of securities appeared on Iranian government-affiliated websites last week and was unsurprisingly ignored…

U.S. Shale Needs To Slow Down To Survive

May 14, 2020 at 10:58 | Haley Zaremba

It has been a bleak couple of months for oil markets. Although markets recovered after going negative for the first time in history earlier this month, they didn’t…

Will Oil Prices Go Negative Again This Month?

May 14, 2020 at 09:56 | Irina Slav

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has warned that as the expiry date for the June West Texas Intermediate contract approaches, the chances of extra price volatility have increased. The regulator…

Goldman Sachs: Oil Market Headed For Deficit In June

May 14, 2020 at 09:01 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Improving global oil demand and faster-than-expected production curtailments from outside the OPEC+ pact are set to push the oil market into…

Is EIA Data Disguising A Disastrous Decline In U.S. Shale?

May 13, 2020 at 17:47 | Nick Cunningham

The Trump administration claims that the U.S. is “transitioning to greatness,” and that energy companies are going to see “massive gains.” U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette says there is…

Extra OPEC+ Cuts Fail To Impress Oil Markets

May 13, 2020 at 14:38 | Amad Shaikh

Last week was the calmest yet in the weeks following COVID-19 and price-war related events that have rocked the oil complex. Normal standard deviation in Brent in w-o-w is about…

OPEC Slashes 2020 Oil Demand Forecast By 9 Million Bpd

May 13, 2020 at 12:35 | Tsvetana Paraskova

OPEC slashed on Wednesday its global oil demand estimates for this year while cutting its forecast for non-OPEC supply as oil producers outside the OPEC+ pact accelerate production curtailments due…

Global Oil Demand Could Take Years To Recover

May 13, 2020 at 11:33 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Global oil demand will take at least a year--and probably much longer--to return to the pre-crisis levels of 100 million barrels per day (bpd), Fatih Birol, Executive Director of the…

Are Venezuelan Oil Exports Poised For A Comeback?

May 13, 2020 at 10:22 | Viktor Katona

As the international community seeks answers with regards to the failed armed incursion into Venezuela that took place May 4, allegedly with the immediate participation of former US military veterans,…

Oil Prices Jump On Surprise Crude Inventory Draw

May 13, 2020 at 09:42 | Irina Slav

Crude oil prices rose today after the Energy Information Administration reported a crude oil inventory decline of 700,000 barrels for the week to May 8. This compared with…

Has Demand For Oil Already Peaked?

May 12, 2020 at 17:33 | Nick Cunningham

Oil prices continue to rise on the prospect of a rebound in fuel demand as economies begin to reopen.  But there is a large difference between…

7 Oil Countries Hit Hard By The COVID-19 Crisis

May 12, 2020 at 15:26 | Alex Kimani

The coronavirus pandemic has rapidly evolved from a global health crisis to a financial one, upending industries, shuttering businesses, and sending financial markets reeling. Amid the crisis, the world's leading…

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