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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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’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…
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,…
“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…
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…
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…
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…