Editorial Dept

Latest articles from Editorial

• Oil Fundamentals Remain Bearish Despite Bullish Headlines

  Published 19 June 2019 | viewed 260 times

  Oil prices got a variety of bullish headlines early this week as US/Iran tensions continued to boil, there was a modest thaw in US/China trade…

• Oil Ticks Higher In Bear Market

  Published 19 June 2019 | viewed 282 times

  Powerful start to the week, only to see the robust buildup disintegrate by Wednesday – a brief resume of how hopes of a crude price…

• Predicting The Result Of The OPEC+ Meeting

  Published 19 June 2019 | viewed 330 times

  Media reports have been awash with speculation this week, some pointing to the inevitability of a production cut extension, some highlighting the growing tensions in…

• The Militarization Of Libya’s Oil Infrastructure

  Published 19 June 2019 | viewed 249 times

  Libya’s Ras Lanuf Oil Terminal Is Now A Key Military Base for Haftar For the second time in less than 45 days, the National Oil…

• Tanker Attacks Don’t Alter The Bearish Oil Trend

  Published 14 June 2019 | viewed 7,641 times

  U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures are set to close lower for the week as demand concerns continue to outweigh rising geopolitical tensions in…

• The U.S. Production Boom Is Becoming A Problem

  Published 14 June 2019 | viewed 18,556 times

  Markets U.S. energy demand shot up by half a million barrels daily last year, BP said in its latest annual review of the industry out…

• The Relentless Rise Of U.S. Oil Exports

  Published 14 June 2019 | viewed 7,507 times

  Friday June 14, 2019 1. All eyes on China as economy teeters- The story of global commodity demand is a story about China. China imported…

• The Truth Behind The Torpedoed Tankers

  Published 14 June 2019 | viewed 14,441 times

  Oil prices have been given a convenient reprieve on the eve of OPEC’s decision as to whether it will extend the supply cuts at a…

• A Strategy Shift And A Buying Opportunity In Solar

  Published 14 June 2019 | viewed 5,828 times

  Two pieces of news this week sent contradictory signals for solar power and resulted in a bit of a crazy week for investors in that…

• The Calm After The Storm In Oil Markets

  Published 12 June 2019 | viewed 6,340 times

  Now there is a calm after the storm that sent the oil market a couple of months back. On the one hand, there is an…

• Is This The Real Reason Tariffs On Mexico Got Suspended?

  Published 12 June 2019 | viewed 10,602 times

  A couple of late Friday tweets have managed to avert an event that would have caused a great amount of distress to the US refining…

• Is It Time For A Contrarian Bet On Oil?

  Published 12 June 2019 | viewed 5,437 times

  Oil markets got a modest bounce at the end of last week on headlines that OPEC+ will likely extend their current supply cut agreement and…

• A Geopolitical Energy Grenade In Europe

  Published 12 June 2019 | viewed 5,915 times

  The Energy Triangle No One’s Paying Enough Attention To This is the energy triangle that has the biggest chance of disrupting geopolitics in Europe, and…

• Floods And Fires Threaten Oil Outages

  Published 07 June 2019 | viewed 10,341 times

  Discovery & Development - Iraq has lifted the state of emergency it declared on the Majnoon oil field amid floods. Production at the field was…

• Has Oil Bottomed Out?

  Published 07 June 2019 | viewed 16,245 times

  U.S. West Texas Intermediate and international-benchmark Brent crude oil futures are in a position to finish mixed for the week based on Friday’s price action.…

• Is The Bounce In Oil Prices Sustainable?

  Published 07 June 2019 | viewed 11,073 times

  This week, after falling since the end of April, oil futures officially entered bear market territory. That happened on Wednesday, with an unexpected build in…

• U.S. Shale Spending Is Under Fire Again

  Published 07 June 2019 | viewed 10,629 times

  Friday, June 7, 2019 1. U.S. shale still burning cash- A cross-section of 29 U.S. shale companies reported more than $2.5 billion in negative cash…

• Will Bearish Sentiment Break OPEC+?

  Published 07 June 2019 | viewed 6,804 times

  The oil market has gone decidedly bearish, and sentiment is growing that Moscow isn’t going to be able to play ball much longer with OPEC…

• Bearish News Piles Up As Driving Season Kicks Off

  Published 05 June 2019 | viewed 4,241 times

  The past week was one of the weakest for crude markets this year – virtually everything combined together to create a highly powerful downward momentum.…

• A Case For Circumventing Oil Sanctions

  Published 05 June 2019 | viewed 4,247 times

  With the sanctioning and tariff-slapping frenzy capturing most of media attention nowadays, we should get ready for a new epoch of geopolitics where the World…