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Tom Kool

Oilprice.com

Contributor since: 23 Sep 2015

Tom Kool

Tom majored in International Business at Amsterdam’s Higher School of Economics, he is Oilprice.com's Head of Operations

Latest articles from Tom

  • Security Woes Threaten OPEC’s Second Largest Producer

    Published 23 January 2016 | viewed 31,345 times

    Iraq has been one of the key contributors to the uptick in OPEC oil production over the past year and a half. Despite the fact…

  • Saudi Arabia: A Weak Kingdom On Its Knees?

    Published 14 January 2016 | viewed 56,158 times

    The great Kingdom of Saudi Arabia—the long-time dictator of crude oil prices for the world—is struggling on all fronts. The Saudis are losing their proxy…

  • 3 Energy ETF’s For A Battered Oil Market

    Published 13 January 2016 | viewed 6,181 times

    Recently there was progress for energy investments at the Paris Climate Conference, and subsequent bill H.R.2029 passed by the U.S. Congress. The latter allowed for…

  • Can Next Week’s OPEC Meeting Comfort Oil Markets?

    Published 24 November 2015 | viewed 9,437 times

    This week, the North American oil rig count fell again after a pause, and oil prices continue to exhibit weakness. As below chart suggets, especially…

  • Oil Finds Some Support As WTI Hits $40 Mark

    Published 20 November 2015 | viewed 12,994 times

    We start with an overview of last week’s most important data from the oil and gas sector: Related: OPEC’s Bad Bet By The NumbersOil prices continued…

  • Is The Oil And Gas Fire Sale About To Start?

    Published 15 October 2015 | viewed 25,551 times

    Much has been written about the mounting pile of debt for U.S. oil companies (not to mention the well-known Brazilian oil giant).Not that long ago,…

  • Six Reasons Natural Gas Prices Are Staying Down

    Published 05 October 2015 | viewed 20,068 times

    The critical natural gas transit country, Ukraine, reached a supply agreement in the last week of September with the EU’s largest fuel supply partner: Russia.One…

  • Shell’s Loss Is Eni’s Gain

    Published 02 October 2015 | viewed 11,012 times

    At the beginning of this week, oil major Shell announced that it will indefinitely postpone (read: completely abandon) its Arctic drilling operations in the Chukchi…

  • VW Scandal Bad News For Diesel

    Published 23 September 2015 | viewed 28,406 times

    The outlook for diesel looks grim after U.S. regulators found that the world’s second biggest car manufacturer cheated on its emission tests. Last Friday, the…

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