16/01/2020
While global oil supplies in 2019 were vulnerable, the fluctuations have not affected long-term petrol prices, yet business plans for some in the market in 2020 remain complicated. As per the West Texas Intermediate oil pricing benchmark, the price ..
14/11/2019
This year will mark the nadir of oil demand growth over the next five years, according to a new report from Fitch Solutions Macro Research (FSMR). “We forecast demand to grow by around 0.5 percent this year, rising to 0.8 percent in 20..
14/11/2019
In its 2019 World Energy Outlook (WEO), the International Energy Agency projects in its “current policies” scenario that energy demand rises by 1.3%/year to 2040, with increasing demand for energy services unrestrained by further efforts ..
14/11/2019
Crude oil markets traded in a relatively narrow range in October following heightened volatility in September stemming from the attack on Saudi Arabian crude oil processing facilities. Crude oil markets traded in a relatively narrow range ..
05/04/2019
Crude oil prices in the international market witnessed a robust leap, hitting the $70 dollar mark on Thursday, the first time since November, 2018. This is coming amidst expectations of a tight global supply of the product despite pressures arisin..
12/07/2018
The Energy Information Administration forecasts total U.S. crude oil production to average 10.8 million barrels per day (MMBPD) in 2018, up 1.4 MMBPD from 2017. In 2019, crude oil production is forecast to average 11.8 MMBPD. If realized, the foreca..
15/05/2018
Crude Oil Price Movements In April, the OPEC Reference Basket (ORB) rose by $4.67, or 7.3%, month-on-month (m-o-m), to average $68.43/b, with Dated Brent and Dubai rising by nearly 9% each, while spot WTI increased by 6%. Year-todate (y-t-d), the OR..
07/04/2018
Analysts Wood Mackenzie say around 30 major oil and gas projects are expected to reach final investment decisions (FIDs) this year. A major project is considered to have commercial reserves of more than 50 million barrels of oil equivalent. Rystad ..
07/04/2018
Here's a question hanging over oil markets: Should traders be paying more attention to geopolitical risk? A few recent analyses on the topic, spurred by escalating conflict between Saudi Arabia and Yemen's Houthi rebels (and by extension Iran..
07/04/2018
Shale drillers boosted drilling activity in the U.S. oil patch to the highest in three years even as American crude output touched unprecedented levels. U.S. working oil rigs rose by 11 this week to 808, the highest since March 2015, according to da..
07/04/2018
The alliance between Opec and Russia that co-ordinated historic oil-output cuts could last “indefinitely” and be formalised by setting up a new organisation including other major producers, said Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak. T..
07/04/2018
“Our bullish outlook on prices rests heavily on a positive story for demand,” BMI Research in a recent report, adding that the OPEC-led output cut deal has played a key role in supporting market recovery. The agency, however, warned that..
11/12/2017
At this time of the year, I’ll give my 10 predictions for 2018, covering the macro economy, interest rates, currencies, stock markets and housing markets over next three weeks. For next year, the global economic outlook remains promising, but ..
07/12/2015
Plunging oil prices have left many crude-exporting countries with budgets that simply won't balance. For many of the biggest producers — places like Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and Algeria — oil accounts for the majority of the country's exp..
24/11/2015
Summary Oil demand in 2015 isn't weak, it is strong especially in the United States where consumption has surged. Relative to 2013, oil demand in 2015 has increased by over 800,000 barrels per day which is nearly equal to a full year of global grow..
19/11/2015
What will happen to the economic fortunes of OPEC members if it turns out the Saudis and their Gulf Arab allies (UAE, Kuwait, and Qatar) bet on the wrong horse in November 2014? With the wager Saudi Oil Minister Al al-Naimi announced on market forces..
03/11/2015
Tanzeel Akhtar, special to CNBC.com As the price of oil continues its decline, economists have warned on a lack of upward price pressures for the commodity for at least another two years. David McNew | Getty Images News ..
03/11/2015
Tom DiChristopher Dealmaking among companies that process, store, and transport oil and gas reached $63.5 billion in the third quarter, accounting for more than two-thirds of mergers and acquisitions activity in the U.S. energy ..
16/10/2015
The safe money for oil traders is betting that Venezuela's plan to resurrect Opec's old price band mechanism, attempting to set a $70 floor for the battered market, will be doomed from the start. Saudi Arabia, the group's de facto leader, has shown ..
15/10/2015
worldoil.com Pramod Kulkarni, World Oil With the industry facing low crude oil prices for the foreseeable future, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region remains an oasis of increasing oilfield activity, due to minimal lif..
01/10/2015
Lianna Brinded The price of oil has been below $60 a barrel all year, but Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil producer, has remained quiet about how this is affecting the country's balance sheet. Today we got a glimpse of the country's pain: Sa..
01/10/2015
John Manfreda Recently, Bloomberg reported that Iran’s oil minister had spoken with Mexican officials with regard to stabilizing the oil market. Iran claims that, if OPEC decides to more actively manage the oil market, that Mexico, the third l..
01/10/2015
Simeon Kerr Saudi Arabia has withdrawn tens of billions of dollars from global asset managers as the oil-rich kingdom seeks to cut its widening deficit and reduce exposure to volatile equities markets amid the sustained slump in oil prices. The Sau..
29/09/2015
Nick Cunningham The French oil company Total released a downward revision to its production forecast, lowering its target from 2.8 million barrels per day (mb/d) in 2017, to 2.6 mb/d, a sign that low oil prices continue to cut into long-term oil pro..
29/09/2015
I am starting this post off with a news article because it explains why JODI has U.S. production numbers wrong for July. The Joint Organizations Data Initiative (JODI) releases monthly oil supply-and-demand data for about 80 countries, whic..
25/09/2015
Ron Patterson The Texas RRC Oil & Gas Production numbers are out. They came out on a weekend this month. All RRC data is through July. The EIA data is through June. Keep in mind that the RRC data is incomplete, that is why the chart lines..
25/09/2015
Stephen Christoffersen WTI production in Texas and the Texas Unemployment rate are closely correlated. Despite reduction in Texas rig counts, production remains near all-time highs. The full pai..
23/09/2015
Robert Berke One month after the Iran nuclear deal was concluded, the Middle East is still reeling from profound shock. Long and well established alliances have led to bewildering changes, not only in the Mideast, but ..
23/09/2015
Nick Cunningham The financial pressure on indebted oil and gas companies continues to mount, putting them in a bind as they try to mend their deteriorating balance sheets. As their debt rises, drillers have had to divert more of th..
22/09/2015
Seventy-six years to the day after Ol’ Blue Eyes recorded ‘All or Nothing At All‘, and the Federal Reserve finds itself in a similar predicament. For betwixt now and 2pm ET, we are set for markets to be pushed and prodded around..
22/09/2015
Nick Cunningham One of the most significant countries in terms of future oil growth may not be able to achieve its long-term production goals, raising red flags about global oil supplies in the years ahead. For years, Iraq has been central to t..
21/09/2015
LONDON, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Nigerian crude oil differentials were stable on Thursday, with traders saying that demand from Europe and the United States has offset weaker demand from Asian buyers. Traders said th..
21/09/2015
energymixreport.com Nigeria’s crude oil output increased by about 70,400 barrels per day (bpd) to 1,857,000bpd in August 2015, from its July output of 1,787,000bpd going by the current figures released by Organisation of Petrole..
21/09/2015
commodities-now.com London, 17 September 2015 The party is over for tight oil. Despite brash statements by U.S. producers and misleading analysis by Raymond James, low oil prices are killing tight oil companies. Reports..
21/09/2015
irna.ir The company’s president Vagit Alekperov who is in Tehran met with Iran’s oil minister, Bijan Namdar Zanganeh to discuss the future mutual cooperation, Zamaninia said. Increasing Iranian oilfields’ re..
21/09/2015
FUJAIRAH, United Arab Emirates, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Kuwait's OPEC governor Nawal al-Fuzaia said on Thursday the oil market would balance itself but "we need to be patient", indicating support for the producer group's policy of defending market share ..
21/09/2015
sharecast.com (ShareCast News) - Oil prices will gradually rise to $80 a barrel in 2020, as supply growth outside the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) weakens. Bloomberg reported that internal OPEC research showed tha..
21/09/2015
Myra P. Saefong By Markets/commodities reporter U.S. demand of oil and refined products rose to their highest August level in five years, according to a monthly report from the American Petroleum Institute released Thursda..
21/09/2015
Low oil and gas prices have lessened pressure from producers for the Obama administration to expand the plays it plans to offer in its five-year plan for offshore leasing, US Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said Tuesday. Prices have ..
21/09/2015
Gaurav Agnihotri OPEC has been the most talked about organization in the oil and gas circuit in the last year as the cartel pursues market share, and any move by OPEC comes under intense scrutiny and analysis. Back in June 2015, it was..
18/09/2015
Gail Tverberg Usually, we don’t stop to think about how the whole economy works together. A major reason is that we have been lacking data to see long-term relationships. In this post, I show some longer-term time series relating..
11/09/2015
Features Low oil prices are constricting drilling activity worldwide with a couple of exceptions. Meanwhile, production and reserve levels have gained, spurred by last year’s stout drilling effort. As we look back over the last 12..
11/09/2015
Oil prices fell on Wednesday as ample supply pressured futures even as the prospect of economic stimulus from China boosted equities markets. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude settled down 3.9, at $44.15 a barrel. Brent crude was trading at $47.70 ..
09/09/2015
James Bullard is right, the US is more than ready to weather its first rise in short-term interest rates for a decade. To the hawkish St Louis Federal Reserve president, the US is entering a full-blown economic boom and it is time offici..
09/09/2015
Fawad Razaqzada September 8, 2015 1:20 pm by Crude oil has managed to rebound noticeably after staging a 2.5-day sell-off that began at the end of last week. Given the corresponding rally across the equity markets,..
09/09/2015
Andrew Hecht Summary Volatility spikes. The bear case for crude going forward. The bull case for crude going forward. Volatility is likely to continue. Where crude goes, many markets will f..
09/09/2015
A shake-up of Saudi Arabia's oil leadership by King Salman has introduced a new element of unpredictability to its energy policymaking at a moment when Riyadh is grappling with slumping crude prices and its war in neighboring Yemen. State oil gian..
09/09/2015
China is planning to launch its own oil benchmark in October, similar to Brent and WTI, striving for a more important role in establishing crude prices. Unlike the Western benchmarks, the Chinese contracts will be nominated in the yuan, not the US..
09/09/2015
Nia Williams, Reuters | LLOYDMINSTER, Canada — Amid the corn and canola fields of eastern Saskatchewan, oil foreman Dwayne Roy is doing what Saudi Arabia and fellow OPEC producers are loath to do: shutting the taps on active well..
09/09/2015
In a market already flooded with too much oil, news that legacy projects signed when prices – and prospects – were much stronger are going to begin feeding into increased output is only likely to add to the bearish sentiment. Internat..
08/09/2015
Nick Cunningham Several recent gas deals will tie Russia and Germany closer together. Russia’s Gazprom announced an agreement on asset swaps with European partners including OMV, BASF, E.ON, and Royal Dutch Shell. The deals w..
08/09/2015
Charles Kennedy The oil bust has been largely a supply-driven phenomenon. Unlike the last time that oil prices were this low – during the 2008-2009 financial crisis – this past year’s price collapse has not ..
08/09/2015
Arthur Berman Rig productivity and drilling efficiency are red herrings. A red herring is something that takes attention away from a more important subject. Rig productivity and drilling efficiency distract from the truth th..
08/09/2015
Brent crude has been the global benchmark against which most oil is measured ever since the field from which it draws its name was discovered in the 1970s. The first Brent futures were introduced in 1988 as a way for traders and refiner..
08/09/2015
With oil prices at a low level, Saudi Arabia will have to take new steps to become a normal country, not just one of oil barons, where the money flows like water from the well, says Jeffrey Albert Tucker, distinguished fellow of the Foundation for Ec..
08/09/2015
RUSSIA has no plans to join the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec), an oil-producing cartel of mostly Middle Eastern countries, according the to boss of a major Russian energy company. “Opec has lost its influence as a key ..
08/09/2015
Nafeesa Syeed Mohammed Hatem Mohammed Sergie Gulf Arab nations are expanding the ground war in Yemen, pouring more troops into the country to defeat Houthi rebels they say are backed by regional rival Iran. About 1,000 troops from Qatar entered..
08/09/2015
Stephen Bierman Rakteem Katakey At a time when the collapse in crude prices pushes Russia’s economy into a recession, the nation’s oil producers are managing to beat their western counterparts. On measures including ..
08/09/2015
Ron Patterson EIA begins monthly survey-based reporting of U.S. crude oil production With the release of today’s Petroleum Supply Monthly, EIA is incorporating the first survey-based reporting of monthly U.S. crude oil production statistics..
01/09/2015
The EIA’s Monthly Energy Review came out a couple of days ago. The data is in thousand barrels per day and the last data point is July 2015. US consumption of total liquids, or as the EIA calls it, petroleum products supplied, reached 20,0..