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Energy / Crude Oil

Oil Jumps On Large Crude Inventory Draw

Feb 27, 2019 at 09:42 | Irina Slav

Crude oil prices inched higher today after the EIA released its latest Weekly Petroleum Status Report, in which the authority said crude oil inventories had fallen by 8.6 million…

Kurdistan Continues Oil Exports To Iran Despite U.S. Sanctions

Feb 26, 2019 at 11:06 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Iraq’s semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan continues to keep oil exports and economic relations with Iran despite the U.S. sanctions on Tehran, a spokesperson for the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG)…

Venezuela Fails To Sell Its Heavy Crude Amid Dwindling Supply

Feb 26, 2019 at 09:18 | Irina Slav

More than eight million barrels of Venezuelan crude oil is sitting in tankers as U.S. sanctions are preventing the country from selling the commodity worth about half a billion dollars,…

Why Oil Tanker Rates Just Doubled

Feb 25, 2019 at 16:13 | Irina Slav

Tanker demand and freight rates are usually a reliable metric of oil demand patterns and trends. They are also among the factors that taken together might suggest what the future…

Saudi Oil Production Lags Behind Peers In The Mid-East

Feb 25, 2019 at 16:02 | Robert Rapier

In this final installment of a series (See also Article 1 and Article 2) examining Saudi Arabia’s oil reserves, I want to examine several metrics to see how they stack up against…

Shell Sees Global LNG Trade Spiking This Year

Feb 25, 2019 at 13:20 | Tim Daiss

More developments are underway that show just how far global liquefied natural gas (LNG) markets have progressed in the last five years. Until recently, the super-cooled fuel was mostly bought…

Hydrogen Cars Struggle To Compete With Electric Vehicles

Feb 25, 2019 at 13:05 | Vanand Meliksetian

The electrification of most industrialized societies has taken off in a big way. In the EU and China government support such as regulations and subsidies are pushing automakers towards alternative…

The Oil Producer OPEC Is Overlooking

Feb 21, 2019 at 17:06 | Tsvetana Paraskova

While everyone is talking about how surging U.S. crude oil production will offset a large part of the ongoing OPEC/non-OPEC production cuts, there are other oil producers not taking part…

European Oil Demand Is Shockingly Weak

Feb 21, 2019 at 16:22 | Nick Cunningham

One of the unexpectedly soft spots in global oil demand recently has been in Europe. To be sure, Europe was never expected to be a major driver of oil demand…

Cracks Begin To Form In Saudi-Russian Alliance

Feb 21, 2019 at 13:29 | Tim Daiss

Could cracks be forming in the bromance between Saudi Arabia and Russia over oil production quotas? According to one analyst, the answer could be - yes. The background for one…

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…

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