OPEC’s new strategy to balance the oil market is to cut oil exports to the U.S., a move intended to drain near-record-high crude oil inventories. OPEC originally thought that six…
OPEC extended oil production cuts last week and oil prices plunged. OPEC’s goal was to keep a floor under current prices but the market expected the cartel to move prices…
The oil price crash battered the 2016 earnings of energy firms, but the usual suspects are still there in the rankings of the biggest oil and gas companies this year.…
New York is turning into a center of attraction for innovative energy technology companies thanks to its US$5-billion plan to generate half of its electricity from renewable sources by 2030,…
Well, if it’s the end of May, it must be time for another OPEC meeting. And sure enough it was. Yet again, the representatives of the OPEC nations got together…
Russia’s Novak suggests Russia has more room for deeper cuts Crude oil prices fell more than 5 percent Thursday after OPEC extended a production cut deal which had originally help…
Goldman Sachs bought last week around US$2.8 billion bonds issued by Venezuela’s embattled state oil firm PDVSA, betting that a change in the Venezuelan regime could more than double the…
It’s been a solid year for gold buying in India. With demand in the world’s top-consuming nation rebounding after a series of political setbacks in 2016. But reports this past…
Iran signed an agreement with Russia under which it has broken free from the petrodollar, and will "sell", or rather barter crude oil to Russia in exchange for products. The…
Those new to financial markets, and energy trading in particular, were probably somewhat puzzled by the price action in oil futures this week following the announcement by OPEC and some…
The OPEC deal will lead to an ongoing tightening of the crude oil market, putting a floor beneath crude prices in the $50s per barrel in the second half of…
At its conference in Vienna, OPEC announced a nine-month extension of its November 2016 deal to cut production. Markets were singularly unimpressed with the decision, which had been baked into…
Foreign oil companies will soon be able to invest in China’s upstream sector through joint ventures with the country’s three major fossil fuel companies, according to a new manifesto by…
Oil bulls were unhappy with yesterday's OPEC announcement, which disappointed by adding nothing to the 9 month supply cut extension announcement which had already been leaked and largely priced in…
U.S. has brought crude oil from 80 nations into its refineries In the past 30 years, the U.S. has imported more than 91 billion barrels of oil, drawing from a…
It was about time big data entered the lives of Big Oil. Yet it’s not happening exactly as expected. Oil companies are not making a mad dash to collect and…
(Click to enlarge)The Chart above compares several different combinations of past (vintage) data to estimate output. The dotted line is based on the…
OK, so how close are Iraqi Kurds to establishing their own independent state in Northern Iraq? In this article, Gallia Lindenstrauss and Adrien Cluzet analyze the myriad factors that have…
Uzbekistan revealed in late April that it had begun building a new $2.2 billion oil refinery that would produce fuel for sale domestically and abroad. Official news sources stated perfunctorily…
OPEC extended production cuts that were originally agreed in December 2016 for another 9 months, delivering both OPEC members and Russian discipline that will last well into the Spring…