Plastics will come to account…
Energy experts and environmentalists express…
Slow economic growth in Asia has led local downstream firms to turn down refining production as energy products flood the regional market, according to a recent report by…
Today, the United States Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management released 348 pages of new Requirements for Exploratory Drilling on the Arctic…
So, here we are, biding our time with our core oil portfolio, watching oil idle in the mid-$40’s and as the John Mayer song goes, “Waiting on the…
There’s been a lot of press lately about OPEC’s effect on oil prices. With many observers wondering if surging crude exports from places like Saudi Arabia and Iran will hold…
In an industry where anything could happen, surprises—often unwelcomed—are hard to come by. Oil is exactly such an industry at the moment. No one is sure where oil…
OPEC has captured its largest share of the oil market since 1975, which could be seen as a vindication of the cartel’s strategy over the past two years.…
Last week the two administrations of Libya’s National Oil Company made a breakthrough, reaching an agreement to unify their oil operations for the greater good, but now the eastern…
The lulling stability of oil prices over the last months has been a welcome respite, and both Saudi and Russian authorities have declared the glut ended.…
Russia is on track to set a new record in crude oil exports this year, and Iran is boosting exports to Europe, intensifying competition on the continent,…
A political breakthrough in Libya could potentially contribute to the return of some of the country’s disrupted oil production. Libya has been torn apart by civil war, political…
Potentially game-changing announcement in the oil and gas sector late last week. From a part of the world that’s almost completely unknown for petroleum — but could soon…
I have considered an alternative way of estimating Texas oil (C+C) output using the Drilling info data provided in the EIA’s 914 monthly production reports.
Coming on the heels of the last few articles about DUCs (drilled uncompleted wells) another discussion that is beginning to occur between analysts and companies is the…
ExxonMobil and its partner Hess Corp. have announced that the major discovery off the coast of Guyana, is a discovery that is much larger than previously expected. The Liza…
The disruptions in global oil supplies are at their highest level since 2011. That comes from an updated assessment from the EIA, which shows total disruptions in…
• WTI submitted a new YTD high of $51.67 this week, albeit in exceptionally boring fashion. In the ten trading days ending June 6th WTI traded in a…
The world’s second-largest petro-major gave us a rare look inside its corporate head this week. With top management pulling back the veil on which global oil and gas plays they…
U.S. crude oil production fell 150,000 barrels per day in May and the global over-supply of liquids was 680,000 barrels per day. The EIA Short-Term Energy Outlook (
The Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) strike again. The Nigerian government said that it would scale back its military campaign against the Avengers and push for negotiations after…
Official data released early on Wednesday confirms expectations of a U.S. crude oil inventory draw, with the Energy Information Administration (EIA) showing inventories down by over 3.2 million…