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Electric Cars To Reshape Copper And Oil Demand

Nov 03, 2016 at 15:23 | Oil & Gas 360

EVs could demand enough copper, other metals to dwarf oil market fallout: BHP According to Bloomberg New Energy Finance, EVs could displace 2 million barrels a day of oil demand…

Debunking The Massive EIA Crude Build

Nov 03, 2016 at 11:38 | Matt Smith

Yesterday’s weekly EIA inventory report showed a 14.4 million-barrel build to oil inventories, the largest since weekly records began in 1982. Here at ClipperData, we use U.S. Customs bills…

UK Looks To Jump Start Offshore Activity With This Bidding Round

Nov 03, 2016 at 11:16 | Dave Forest

Another big week for offshore oil and gas. With the most intriguing news being: Japan’s INPEX hitting a “high-pressure gas column” in a scientific test well off the coast…

IEA’s Chief Says EVs Are Not Upending Oil Markets

Nov 03, 2016 at 10:13 | Irina Slav

Fatih Birol, the executive director of the International Energy Agency said he did not expect electric vehicles to lead to a peak in oil demand anytime soon. Speaking at…

Is This The Most Bearish Oil Report Of All Time?

Nov 02, 2016 at 15:14 | Nick Cunningham

Oil prices plunged on Wednesday following data showing a massive buildup of crude oil inventories in the U.S., pushing WTI down to $45 per barrel, the lowest level since September.…

OPEC Is Now Irrelevant – This Oil Price Plunge Is Different

Nov 02, 2016 at 15:14 | Salman Ghouri

OPEC Price Band Not very long ago, oil prices traded at well below $20/b and OPEC anxiously came up with a mechanism which it termed as “OPEC Price Band' $22-$28/b”.…

The Oil Century: How Oil Transformed America

Nov 02, 2016 at 14:49 | Tsvetana Paraskova

The autumn of 1908 was a landmark moment in America’s car industry. In September of that year, William C. Durant founded the company that would later become General Motors.…

Russia Continues To Raise Its Oil Production

Nov 02, 2016 at 14:33 | Irina Slav

Goldman Sachs’ commodity analysts are a merciless bunch. Just the other day they warned that if OPEC fails to agree on a freeze, crude oil prices will dive back to…

Bahrain’s Masterplan To Become A Global Gas Hub

Nov 02, 2016 at 14:30 | Oxford Business Group

Central to Bahrain’s plans of both becoming a gas hub and meeting rising domestic energy demand is the new liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal and regasification facility, the Bahrain LNG…

How Realistic Are Current Climate Change Goals?

Nov 02, 2016 at 14:09 | Ron Patterson

My previous post on an energy transition promised to consider the level of climate change that might be associated with such an Energy Transition. Rather than use Webhubbletelescope’s CSALT model…

Chinese Government Intervention Could Kill The Coal Rally

Nov 02, 2016 at 11:35 | Dave Forest

Coal has gone from black sheep to red hot over the last month. With soaring prices prompting a sudden burst of optimism amongst miners globally. Glencore, for instance, said this…

Saudi Aramco’s Chief Sees Oil Rebounding In H1 2017

Nov 02, 2016 at 10:59 | Irina Slav

Crude oil prices will rise in the first half of next year as the commodity’s fundamentals return to balance, Aramco’s chief executive, Amin Nasser, said. Without providing details about…

Oil Continues To Crash After EIA Reports Biggest Inventory Build In 34 Years

Nov 02, 2016 at 09:51 | Irina Slav

After the API shocked markets by reporting a massive 9.3-million-barrel increase in U.S. inventories yesterday, the EIA added insult to injury, saying inventories instead went up by 14.4…

BP And Shell Optimistic The Market Is Turning

Nov 01, 2016 at 18:23 | Nick Cunningham

BP and Royal Dutch Shell reported their latest financial figures for the third quarter and both companies showed some improvement, a sign that the oil markets are starting to find…

Which Non-OPEC Producers Can Be Expected To Cut?

Nov 01, 2016 at 16:51 | Zainab Calcuttawala

Last week, Venezuelan oil minister Eulogio del Pino released a list of states invited to participate in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries’ (OPEC) ongoing negotiations regarding a much-anticipated output…

Oil To Crash Back To $40 If OPEC Fails

Nov 01, 2016 at 16:30 | Irina Slav

OPEC’s increasingly probable failure to reach a production freeze deal will see international oil prices plummet back to US$40 a barrel, according to Goldman Sachs analysts. In a note…

Brazil To Boost Oil Output, Regardless Of OPEC’s Deal

Nov 01, 2016 at 16:21 | Irina Slav

The chances of success for any concerted effort to curb global oil supply are getting slimmer by the day, it seems. OPEC members are arguing among themselves who will need…

Oil Sells Off As OPEC Remains Divided On Deal

Nov 01, 2016 at 15:20 | Evan Kelly

Oil prices remained week on Tuesday morning despite a weaker dollar, whereas gasoline prices pumped on yet another outage on the Colonial Pipeline.

Oil Prices Near One Month Lows As Gasoline Spikes

Nov 01, 2016 at 12:47 | Matt Smith

As gasoline charges higher due to another outage on the Colonial pipeline, crude prices are getting caught up in its slipstream, being dragged higher after yesterday's drubbing. Tomorrow brings another…

This Entire Region Is Now Shaping Up As The World’s Top Natural Gas Play

Nov 01, 2016 at 12:02 | Dave Forest

I’ve been writing over the last several months about the world’s top natural gas play — the growing demand center of Argentina. And this week, things got even tighter…

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