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Saudi Arabia Strikes Back At Russia In Key Oil Market

Mar 12, 2020 at 12:38 | Tsvetana Paraskova

The world’s top oil exporter Saudi Arabia is going after Russia’s oil market share in Europe with deeply discounted Arab Light crude at up to three times the usual volumes, people…

Crashing Oil Prices Force U.S. Oil Firms To Cut Budgets

Mar 12, 2020 at 11:51 | Tsvetana Paraskova

As oil prices continue to tank amid the oil price war and the coronavirus outbreak, U.S. oil producers are announcing capital spending and dividend cuts by the hour as many of…

The Reason Why Russia Refused To Cut Oil Production

Mar 12, 2020 at 11:03 | Irina Slav

OPEC asked Russia to cut an additional 300,000 bpd in oil production at last week’s meeting in Vienna, but according to Russia’s Deputy Energy Minister, this would’ve been ‘technically challenging’…

Oil Crashes Again On U.S. Travel Ban

Mar 12, 2020 at 09:00 | Irina Slav

After a brief respite following reports of central bank economic stimuli in the United States and the UK, crude oil slumped once again after on Wednesday, President Donald Trump instituted…

Will Trump Bail U.S. Shale Out?

Mar 11, 2020 at 19:08 | Nick Cunningham

The White House is considering a rescue package for the U.S. shale industry, although the idea is getting pushback from so many sides that it faces challenging odds of passing…

Tech Breakthrough Could Revolutionize Lithium Extraction

Mar 11, 2020 at 18:30 | Tsvetana Paraskova

A research team is close to patenting a new technique to extract lithium from brine that could revolutionize the lithium extraction process and potentially cut the production costs of one…

Why Fracking Will Never Be Banned In The U.S.

Mar 11, 2020 at 17:43 | Julianne Geiger

Several democratic presidential candidates have proposed fracking bans, but oil companies have room to breathe easily knowing that killing off fracking in the US is a bit too big of…

OPEC Now Sees Zero Growth In Global Oil Demand In 2020

Mar 11, 2020 at 14:32 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Due to the coronavirus outbreak weighing on economic growth, OPEC now sees global oil demand rising by mere 60,000 bpd in 2020 after it has slashed its forecasts by 920,000…

Traders Are Making A Killing In The Oil Price War

Mar 11, 2020 at 14:09 | Tom Kool

Oil prices crashed after Russia and Saudi Arabia announced that they will abandon OPEC production quotas and open the taps, and while drillers and oilfield service companies are feeling the…

Mexico’s Oil Hedge Just Saved Its Economy

Mar 11, 2020 at 13:51 | Haley Zaremba

Petroleos Mexicanos has been in an unrelenting downward spiral for decades. Pemex, Mexico’s state-owned oil company, has seen a vast and speedy decline of its production rates for the last…

Is This The Worst Oil Deal Of The Decade?

Mar 11, 2020 at 13:39 | Josh Owens

On the 8th of August 2019 a major oil company completed an acquisition that could well be looked back on as the worst oil deal of the decade. Since that…

Coronavirus vs Oil War: Which Is Worse For Markets?

Mar 11, 2020 at 13:00 | Alex Kimani

The stock markets have a new and even more vengeful bogeyman, and this time, it’s not coronavirus. The U.S. bear market crashed to new lows on Wednesday, and the China…

Saudi Arabia Prepares To Flood The Market With Even More Oil

Mar 11, 2020 at 11:17 | Irina Slav

The Saudi Energy Ministry has told Aramco to increase its oil production capacity to 13 from 12 million bpd, the company’s chief executive Amin Nasser said in a statement as…

Oil Price War Escalates As OPEC's No.3 Boosts Production

Mar 11, 2020 at 10:46 | Tsvetana Paraskova

OPEC’s third biggest producer, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), is entering the oil price war as the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) said on Wednesday it was positioned…

Oil Falls Further On Soaring Crude Inventories

Mar 11, 2020 at 10:09 | Irina Slav

Amid a new oil price rout sparked by the breakdown of the OPEC+ alliance the Energy Information Administration reported a crude oil inventory build of 7.7 million barrels for…

U.S. Shale Collapse Will Lead To Higher Oil Prices

Mar 10, 2020 at 19:01 | Nick Cunningham

U.S. shale growth is about to decline, becoming an immediate victim of the Saudi-Russian price war. Saudi Aramco said that it would increase oil production to 12.3 million barrels per…

Big Oil Prepares To Suffer In 2020

Mar 10, 2020 at 18:24 | Irina Slav

When Rystad Energy analysts last November told Bloomberg that Big Oil investors were in for a windfall of dividends and share buybacks as the companies shifted into renewables, they…

Don't Be Fooled By The Oil Price Rebound

Mar 10, 2020 at 17:29 | Irina Slav

A mild winter in the northern hemisphere, the COVID-19 outbreak, and now the price war that Saudi Arabia declared last weekend have combined to produce an all-new oil price crisis…

U.S. Sanctions Have Crippled Iranian Oil Production

Mar 10, 2020 at 14:55 | Tsvetana Paraskova

The U.S. sanctions on Iran’s oil sector are impacting the Islamic Republic’s ability to potentially increase production in the long term if the U.S.-Iran tensions subside and sanctions ease.  …

Junk Status? Oil Nations Face Serious Credit Downgrades

Mar 10, 2020 at 14:27 | Julianne Geiger

Ratings Agency Fitch warned on Tuesday that a new wave of sovereign rating downgrades could be in the works if the oil slump continues, according to Reuters. In additional,…

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