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Energy / Crude Oil

Saudi Arabia To Splash $20B On Oil Capacity Boost

Oct 04, 2018 at 10:31 | Irina Slav

Saudi Arabia will spend US$20 billion on boosting its oil production capacity in the coming years, Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said, as quoted by Reuters. Earlier this week, the…

OPEC Accused Of Hiding Spare Capacity

Oct 04, 2018 at 09:29 | Irina Slav

The U.S. State Department has lashed out against OPEC, accusing the cartel of hiding 1.42 million bpd in spare oil production capacity, S&P Global Platts reports, citing a statement sent…

Saudi Arabia And Russia Make Secret Oil Deal

Oct 03, 2018 at 16:07 | Nick Cunningham

Are Saudi Arabia and Russia helping Trump out by agreeing to increase oil production? A new report from Reuters says that Russia and Saudi Arabia “struck a private deal”…

Venezuela’s Oil Exports Are Falling Even Faster Than Expected

Oct 03, 2018 at 15:52 | Irina Slav

A delay in port repairs following a tanker collision is putting additional pressure on already pressured Venezuelan crude oil exports, Reuters quoted anonymous sources close to PDVSA as saying this…

Energy Minister: Saudi Arabia Is Boosting Oil Production

Oct 03, 2018 at 11:45 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Saudi Arabia will pump 10.7 million bpd of oil in October and will slightly raise this level in November, Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said at an energy forum…

Oil Slumps On Major Inventory Build

Oct 03, 2018 at 09:38 | Irina Slav

Crude oil prices fell after the Energy Information Administration reported an 8-million-barrel build in U.S. crude oil inventories for the week to September 28. Although expected by some analysts…

WTI Discount To Brent Could Explode

Oct 02, 2018 at 16:57 | Nick Cunningham

The world’s two most important oil benchmarks are on two different tracks, and may see a larger divergence in the months ahead. WTI has typically traded at a discount to…

Citi: Brent-WTI Spread Could Widen To 5-Year High

Oct 02, 2018 at 13:24 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Rising U.S. oil production, coupled with the Permian pipeline capacity constraints, are set to lead to a build-up in Cushing, Oklahoma, inventories that will put further pressure on the benchmark…

The $50 Billion Deal That Could Revive The Aramco IPO

Oct 02, 2018 at 12:13 | Cyril Widdershoven

The Aramco IPO saga continues, with the Saudi oil giant soon to enter the international financial markets for a $50 billion loan. International sources are reporting that the world’s largest…

Is China Turning Trump's Oil Weapon Against Him?

Oct 02, 2018 at 10:34 | Tim Daiss

Usually when referring to the so-called oil weapon, analysts are talking about the decades old policy of major oil producing nations withholding production to tighten supplies and drive prices up,…

Kuwait Stops Exporting Crude To U.S.

Oct 02, 2018 at 09:20 | Irina Slav

Kuwait has not sent any crude oil to the United States for at least four weeks, EIA’s weekly petroleum reports for the last four weeks, which also include a…

Underwhelming OPEC Fuels Oil Price Rally

Oct 01, 2018 at 17:49 | Nick Cunningham

Oil prices rose on Monday on news that OPEC only added a modest amount of additional supply to the market in September, contrary to previous expectations. Saudi Arabia had

The Oil Industry Needs Large New Discoveries, Very Soon

Oct 01, 2018 at 17:08 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Market participants and analysts are all focused on the imminent oil supply gap that is opening with the U.S. sanctions on Iran just five weeks away. But beyond the shortest…

Who Will Save Ukraine’s Dying Refineries?

Oct 01, 2018 at 12:48 | Viktor Katona

Ever since war broke out in Eastern Ukraine, the energy industry has been guessing what will happen to Ukraine’s gas transit and its transmission system. In the background, however,…

Saudi Arabia, Kuwait Discuss New Oil Production In Neutral Zone

Oct 01, 2018 at 10:49 | Irina Slav

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed has discussed the restart of crude oil production in the neutral zone between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait during a meeting with Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Sabah…

Ignore The Hype – Oil Prices Aren’t Going Back To $100

Sep 28, 2018 at 17:37 | Arthur Berman

The breakout in Brent crude prices above $80 this week has prompted analysts at the sell side banks to start talking about a return to $100 a barrel oil. Even President…

How Much Spare Capacity Does Saudi Arabia Really Have?

Sep 28, 2018 at 17:37 | Nick Cunningham

Saudi Arabia has pledged to cover any supply gap that may emerge as Iranian oil goes offline, but how much spare capacity does it really have? The massive reserve of…

Refiners Struggle To Adapt To The Shale Boom

Sep 28, 2018 at 17:37 | Irina Slav

U.S. shale production is at record highs and the momentum is still not over. A lot has been said about the energy self-sufficiency implications of this trend, but there’s something…

Why A U.S. SPR Release Would Not Matter

Sep 27, 2018 at 16:32 | Nick Cunningham

The decision by OPEC+ to essentially let Brent crude rise above $80 per barrel, a four-year high, was met with outrage by U.S. President Trump. At the UN General…

The Biggest Wildcard In The Iran Sanctions Saga

Sep 27, 2018 at 15:54 | Irina Slav

In the last 24 hours there have been two fascinating media reports about the Iran sanctions: one is a Bloomberg story saying Indian refiners will not buy any Iranian…

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