 |
Louisiana Light • 4 days | 85.01 | +5.14 | +6.44% | ||
|
Bonny Light • 2 days | 88.16 | -1.48 | -1.65% | ||
|
Opec Basket • 3 days | 92.76 | +2.49 | +2.76% | ||
|
Mars US • 23 hours | 77.49 | -1.94 | -2.44% | ||
|
Gasoline • 1 day | 2.370 | -0.033 | -1.37% |
|
Bonny Light • 2 days | 88.16 | -1.48 | -1.65% | ||
|
Girassol • 2 days | 87.96 | -1.44 | -1.61% | ||
|
Opec Basket • 3 days | 92.76 | +2.49 | +2.76% |
|
Peace Sour • 2 days | 75.48 | -0.92 | -1.20% | ||
|
Light Sour Blend • 2 days | 76.78 | -0.92 | -1.18% | ||
|
Syncrude Sweet Premium • 2 days | 85.73 | -0.92 | -1.06% | ||
|
Central Alberta • 2 days | 75.08 | -0.92 | -1.21% |
|
Eagle Ford • 3 days | 77.71 | -0.92 | -1.17% | ||
|
Oklahoma Sweet • 3 days | 77.75 | -1.00 | -1.27% | ||
|
Kansas Common • 40 days | 84.00 | +3.50 | +4.35% | ||
|
Buena Vista • 4 days | 92.66 | +6.24 | +7.22% |
China Signs Major Railroad Deal With Uzbekistan And Kyrgyzstan, Bypassing Russia
Moscow’s war on Ukraine has…
U.S. Intelligence Claims Russia Is Buying Weapons From North Korea
North Korea is denying claims…
Geopolitics / Africa
Kenyan Security: Paying for Somalia
Bottom Line: Somalia-based al-Shabaab radical Islamist group has claimed responsibility for the 21 September attack on Nairobi’s Westgate mall. This indicates a further weakening of the group in Somalia and…
Egypt for Sale
Three years has seen the overturn of two government, the deaths of thousands of people and the destruction of much of the Egyptian economy. In the end, the mobs have…
Egypt Addresses Debt to Foreign Oil Companies
Bottom Line: Desperate for foreign oil companies to continue investing, Egypt is now trying to restructure $5.4 billion in debt it owes to them before it affects the $8.5 billion…
Ghana’s Supreme Court Upholds President Mahama
Bottom Line: Ghana investors breathe a sigh of relief as the Supreme Court upholds the December 2012 presidential election results and the verdict passes smoothly, with opposition criticism but with…
Libya: the Fundamental Feeding the Fear
Oil prices are at a six-month high and no one knows exactly what is going to happen in Syria nor how it will ultimately affect oil prices in the coming…
Saudi Prince Bandar in Egypt
Bottom Line: While Bandar may not have gotten everything he wanted in Syria—yet—in Egypt he has, so far. Analysis: In July, the US ordered a review of aid…
Egypt's Decline Could be Trouble for Energy Investors
U.S.-based energy explorer Apache Corp. is one of the last holdouts in Egypt, which accounts for about 20 percent of its global oil and natural gas production. It says its…
Egypt Descends into Chaos in Wake of Coup against Morsi
As Egypt’s shaky democratic transition remains beset by chaos, worsening economic conditions, military activism, and socio-ideological division, the country runs a real risk of implosion. Egypt’s Sinai remains an increasingly…
Ghana Prepares for 29 August
Bottom Line: Everyone is bracing for violence as the Supreme Court in Ghana officially announces 29 August as the date for the pronouncement of its final verdict for an opposition…
Egypt: Changing Geopolitical Hands
Bottom Line: The coup in Egypt boils down to a change in power brokers from Qatar to Saudi Arabia, which is in line with the preferences of the US and…
Egypt, Take III: No End to the Carnage
The Egyptian military had a great opportunity to remake the revolution on 3 July when it overthrew the moribund and definitely failed post-revolutionary Muslim Brotherhood experiment—but it has squandered that…
Rush for Nile Water - Now Uganda Plans Massive Hydroelectric Site
In East Africa, the major water resource is the Nile river, the world’s longest, at 4,130 miles, referred to by Egypt since antiquity as the country’s heart.The past…
Tunisia: The Next Govt to Fall
Bottom Line: The Islamist-led Ennahda government in Tunisia survived the first assassination of a political opposition leader in February, the 25 July assassination of a second opposition figure - Mohamed…
Terrorism: The Latest Salvo on LNG Exports
A natural gas company operating in Yemen said there was nothing to media reports stating al-Qaida militants killed four soldiers in a weekend attack. The country was the source of…
What Does the US Want in Egypt?
What the US wants in Egypt is what it failed to attain in Iraq—stability of the kind that assumes US control over the situation. In Iraq’s case, this…
India Nervous About Increasing West African Piracy
After China, India is Asia’s largest rising energy importer. According to the U.S. government’s Energy Information Administration, “India is the fourth largest energy consumer in the world after the…
As Sudan-South Sudan Oil Battle Re-Ignites, South Sudan Risks Instability
Bottom Line: An oil agreement between Sudan and South Sudan is off track—again, and only Ethiopian mediation has managed to postpone for two weeks Sudan’s threat to shut down the…
Egypt Violence Subsides as Investors Eye New Liberal Faces
The violence has largely subsided in Egypt seven days after more than 90 people were killed in clashes between the military and supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and deposed president…
POLITICAL & SECURITY ALERTS - Lebanon Concerned that Israel Could Reach its Oil
Ghana’s Jubilee Production Hits 110,000 b/d, Amid Political CrisisGhana’s giant offshore Jubilee field continues its steady increase in production, now reaching 110,000 barrels per day, and its operator,…
Egypt Better Prepared for Future after Power Change
The Egyptian decision to remove Pres. Morsi was demonstrably no less “democratic” than the decision to remove Pres. Mubarak, but the latest events showed that the US could no longer…
