Taking a voyage across the world of energy with ClipperData’s Director of Commodity Research. Follow on Twitter @ClipperData, @mattvsmith01
It is now a little over a month after Hurricane Harvey made landfall on the US Gulf Coast. While some refineries are still in the…
Oman is the largest oil producer in the Middle East that is not a member of OPEC. It is also part of the OPEC /…
Brent crude prices were propelled to a two-year high yesterday, triggered by concerns about a Kurdish referendum vote to seek independence from Iraq. Although the…
Nearly twenty days (or over 450 hours) after Hurricane Harvey made landfall between Port Aransas and Port O'Connor in Texas, there are a number of…
Oil prices are rallying post-EIA report as today's crude draw was joined by a drop in gasoline inventories. Although waterborne imports were strong last week,…
After trying to grab ahold of the fifty dollar handle, WTI has lost its grip and is sliding lower in the forty dollardom once more.…
Back in late May, Saudi Oil Minister Khalid Al-Falih said that 'exports to the U.S. will drop measurably', as the OPEC Kingpin adjusted its focus…
We've had more energy-related newsflow than we can shake a stick at this week, but as we head into the weekend, hark, here is a…
Six months after the implementation of the OPEC production cut deal to reduce output by 1.2 million barrels per day, and we should be well…
Earlier in the week we discussed how lower Saudi export loadings in April are translating into lower arrivals on U.S. shores this month. This has…
We discussed back in early May how Saudi Arabian crude export loadings in April had dropped materially. Given the journey time to US shores (hark, seven-ish weeks),…
As pockets of geopolitical tension leave the crude market neither shaken nor stirred, hark, today we dig into some of these hotspots to see what…
As oil ventures into forty dollardom once more, today's blog takes a peek at a number of supply side influences, from Basrah buoyed to Brazil…
No sooner had the dust settled after the conclusion of the latest OPEC meeting (with oil traders selling the market like hot cakes), we got…
As OPEC's latest meeting concludes in Vienna, just a glimpse at the charts below helps explain why the cartel's production cut deal has been extended…
Last week we discussed how some OPEC producers are exhibiting compliance via lower exports, while others are not. Our export data affirms what others are…
Oil is rallying for a second consecutive day, with continued positive momentum from yesterday's weekly inventory report, in combination with rising hopes of deeper and/or…
After yesterday's monthly EIA report, and tomorrow's monthly OPEC report, the weekly EIA inventory report acts as the filling in this energy data sandwich. While…
Oil prices are unable to get up off the canvas, as signs of global market rebalancing continue to be errant. With the first weekly EIA…
Oil prices are heading lower as we jump into the fifth month of the year, amid concerns from a mixed bag of global economic data…