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Norway Doubles Down On Arctic Oil
Norway Doubles Down On Arctic Oil While Canada and the U.S. ban Arctic drilling for oil and gas motivated by environmental concerns, and majors such as Shell pull out of their Arctic projects due to financial pressures, Norwegian energy companies are planning to increase drilling in the country’s Arctic shelf in the Barents Sea. It […]
OPEC Production Cut May Need to Be Extended: Oil Ministers
OPEC Production Cut May Need to Be Extended: Oil Ministers The oil ministers of Iran and Qatar have suggested that OPEC’s production cut agreement may have to be extended beyond the June deadline, despite an almost 100-percent compliance rate. The comments come a day after the American Petroleum Institute reported the second-largest crude oil inventory increase in history, at […]
The Oil War Is Only Just Getting Started
The Oil War Is Only Just Getting Started It’s been a month now that investors and analysts have been closely watching two main drivers for oil prices: how OPEC is doing with the supply-cut deal, and how U.S. shale is responding to fifty-plus-dollar oil with rebounding drilling activity. Those two main factors are largely neutralizing […]
OPEC’s 2017 production cuts: a confusing numbers game (part 1)
OPEC’s 2017 production cuts: a confusing numbers game (part 1) What the agreement said Fig 1: Production table from OPEC’s press release referred to as “agreement table” “1. In the fulfilment of the implementation of the Algiers Accord, 171st Ministerial Conference has decided to reduce its production by around 1.2 mb/d to bring its ceiling to […]
Oil Production Vital Statistics December 2016
Oil Production Vital Statistics December 2016 Global total liquids production hit yet another record high of 98.24 Mbpd in November led by OPEC and Russia! Libya’s drive to restore production is a significant factor with production up 280,000 bpd from recent lows. The US oil rig count has risen for 32 consecutive weeks and US […]
Can U.S. Shale Add 1 Million Bpd In 2017?
Can U.S. Shale Add 1 Million Bpd In 2017? Oil prices are up on expectations that OPEC will contribute to a faster balancing in 2017, with up to 1.8 million barrels per day in cuts along with some non-OPEC countries. That has put a floor beneath prices, with fears of another downturn largely dissolved after […]
Trump’s Oil Price Dilemma
Trump’s Oil Price Dilemma President-elect Donald Trump has started naming his picks for key administration offices, and it looks like he is beginning to assemble a team to deliver on at least part of his campaign promises of An America First Energy Plan. Trump’s agenda includes lifting restrictions and opening onshore and offshore leasing on federal […]
Glut Fears Spike As Europe Runs Out Of On-Land Oil Storage
Glut Fears Spike As Europe Runs Out Of On-Land Oil Storage Oil has been called names (“dirty fossil fuel!”). The cartels use it as a weapon to thwart their rivals. ISIS steals it and pimps it out on some sketchy black market. Swaths of it are set on fire and used as a shield. The […]
Satellite Imagery Reveals China’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve Is Vastly Greater Than Disclosed
Satellite Imagery Reveals China’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve Is Vastly Greater Than Disclosed At the end of August, we did a follow up article on what we believe is a far bigger marginal driver to the price of oil than OPEC production (which may or may not be reduced by up to 750kbpd in November), namely the Strategic […]
Turns out, OPEC Isn’t Dead Yet
Turns out, OPEC Isn’t Dead Yet In War for Market Share with US shale oil. Mayhem has crisscrossed the global oil markets since 2014: Huge losses for Big Oil, including teetering, over-indebted, state-owned giants like Mexico’s Pemex and Brazil’s Petrobras; bankruptcies among some of the smaller players; cuts in production in the US, Canada, and China where production […]
The Mystery Of Saudi Treasury Holdings Solved: US Reveals Saudi Holdings For The First Time
The Mystery Of Saudi Treasury Holdings Solved: US Reveals Saudi Holdings For The First Time In the aftermath of Saudi Arabia’s explicit threat to sell off US Treasurys (of which according to the NYT it had some $750 billion) should the US pursue legislation that could hold it liable for the September 11 bombings, Wall Street’s analysts quickly tried […]
“China Is Hoarding Crude At The Fastest Pace On Record”
“China Is Hoarding Crude At The Fastest Pace On Record” In the aftermath of China’s gargantuan, record new loan injection in Q1, which saw a whopping $1 trillion in new bank and shadow loans created in the first three months of the year, many were wondering where much of this newly created cash was ending up. We […]
“China Is Hoarding Crude At The Fastest Pace On Record”
“China Is Hoarding Crude At The Fastest Pace On Record” We now know where most of it went: soaring imports of crude oil. We know this because as the chart below shows, Chinese crude imports via Qingdao port in Shandong province surged to record 9.86 million metric tons last month based on data from General Administration of Customs. As […]
