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Can Trump Solve The Gulf Dispute?

Jun 08, 2017 at 14:54

The buddy-buddy vibe of Gulf countries working together in OPEC has served as a band-aid that has covered up friction between the monarchies for the past couple of years, but…

Canada’s Oil Sands Open Up To Chinese Investment

Jun 08, 2017 at 14:35

Canada is inviting Chinese companies to invest in its oil sands, Canada’s Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr said on Thursday, after an exodus in the past few months saw…

Unmasking Nigeria’s Oil Cartel

Jun 08, 2017 at 12:49

As noted in Part I of this series, the downstream theft of hydrocarbons is a huge industry in Nigeria. As global oil prices rose above $100 a barrel in…

China's Crude Demand Soars As Maintenance Season Comes To An End

Jun 08, 2017 at 11:47

Thanks to a 13 percent surge in crude imports (as refiners prepare for maintenance season), China's trade surplus hit its highest since Jan (though -4 percent YoY). Imports (+14.8 percent…

Is The Electric Car Boom Overhyped?

Jun 08, 2017 at 11:03

The number of electric vehicles on the road surged to two million last year, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). Registered plug-in and battery-powered vehicles on roads worldwide rose…

Hydrocarbon King: U.S. Ranks No.1 In 2016

Jun 08, 2017 at 09:26

Decreasing production in 2016 not enough to dethrone U.S. oil and gas industry Despite the lowest commodity prices in 13 years, U.S. oil and gas production in 2016 continued to…

Is Russia Running Out Of Patience With OPEC?

Jun 07, 2017 at 17:02

Fulfilling its promise to all other signatories of the Vienna deal, Russia has cut its crude production by 300 000 barrels per day. The relative ease with which both the…

Texas Oil And Gas Exports Are Booming

Jun 07, 2017 at 15:35

As soon as the export ban on oil - in force since 1973 - was lifted in America, producers started making global expansion plans. Oil was depressingly cheap, production was…

JP Morgan Slashes Its 2018 Oil Price Forecast By $11

Jun 07, 2017 at 15:21

The U.S. shale-vs-OPEC-cuts tale has been the predominant theme in oil markets this year, and like the cartel’s output cut, it will be rolling over into next year as well.…

How Oil Tech Saved This Permian Town

Jun 07, 2017 at 15:09

While the oil price crash was forcing shale drillers to idle rigs, lay off workers, or go bust, some big producers continued to pump oil from conventional fields in the…

Libya’s Largest Oil Field Shuttered By Protests After Oil Worker Dies

Jun 07, 2017 at 14:58

A new workers’ protest in Libya has shut down the country’s largest oilfield, creating yet another hurdle for a war-torn country as it struggles to rebuild its oil output. The…

The World’s Third Largest Oil Consumer Aims To Drastically Reduce Imports

Jun 07, 2017 at 13:03

India, the world’s third largest oil consumer, imports about 82 percent of its crude oil requirements, and meets just 18 percent of its demand through local sources. The Indian Government…

U.S. Oil To Break Production Record In 2018

Jun 07, 2017 at 11:08

7.2 percent production growth coming in 2018: EIA The U.S. will break a 47-year record next year, according to the EIA, as shale production continues to recover from the global…

Oil Prices Collapse As The EIA Reports Unexpected Inventory Build

Jun 07, 2017 at 10:02

The Energy Information Administration poured ice cold water on the budding hope that inventory levels in the world’s largest oil consumer may be normalizing, by reporting a 3.3-million-barrel…

OPEC Production Spikes – Has The Cheating Begun?

Jun 07, 2017 at 09:16

OPEC’s crude oil production increased by 270,000 bpd in May over April, to stand at 32.12 million bpd--the highest level since January this year--as exempt Libya and Nigeria saw their…

The World’s Top Oil Consumers

Jun 06, 2017 at 13:51

No doubt when faced with the question “Who’s the biggest oil guzzler in the world?” one would immediately think about the U.S. or China. Or perhaps India. Few of us,…

Is Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 Too Ambitious?

Jun 06, 2017 at 13:20

“It is huge, audacious, ambitious, and the word ‘transform’ does not do it justice,” Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Khalid Al-Falih said of the Crown Prince’s Vision 2030 economic revitalization plan…

America’s Unstoppable LNG Boom

Jun 06, 2017 at 13:10

Since Cheniere sent America’s first LNG cargo abroad in early 2016, U.S. gas exports have reached buyers in Latin America, Europe, Asia, and even the Middle East. The shale gas…

Nigeria’s Oil Theft Epidemic

Jun 06, 2017 at 13:04

Although crude oil theft has long been the subject of intense media attention in Nigeria, the downstream theft of hydrocarbons has remained under the radar. Despite this, downstream hydrocarbon theft…

Bearish News Mounts For Oil Markets

Jun 06, 2017 at 12:21

The 9-month extension to the OPEC deal has had a surprisingly negative impact on oil prices, which headed downward once again at the start of the week due to the…

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