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Wikileaks Cables: Saudi Arabia Oil Reserves Overstated
Wikileaks Cables: Saudi Arabia Oil Reserves Overstated UNYOM The United States fears that Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest crude oil exporter, may not have enough reserves to prevent oil prices escalating, confidential cables from its embassy in Riyadh show. The cables, released by WikiLeaks, urge Washington to take seriously a warning from a senior Saudi government […]
Low prices batter oil industry (and later the rest of us)
Low prices batter oil industry (and later the rest of us) It is a sign of the times that the largest oil company in the world, Saudi Aramco, the state oil company of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, must borrow money to pay its shareholder dividend. I have written about the twice-delayed and often troubled initial public […]
Oil Price Crash Costs Saudi Arabia $27.5 Billion In Revenue In 2020
Oil Price Crash Costs Saudi Arabia $27.5 Billion In Revenue In 2020 The oil price collapse is depriving Saudi Arabia of US$27.5 billion in oil revenues this year, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said on Friday, admitting that the current oil income is not enough to cover the Kingdom’s salaries bill. Saudi Arabia had […]
The Debt Crisis Is Mounting For Oil Economies
The Debt Crisis Is Mounting For Oil Economies Dubai. Abu Dhabi. Bahrain. And, of course, Saudi Arabia. The two emirates this year issued debt for the first time in years. So did Bahrain. Saudi Arabia stepped up its debt issuance. The moves are typical for the oil-dependent Gulf economies. When the going is good, the […]
Saudi Arabia Refuses To Learn From Its Two Failed Oil Price Wars
Saudi Arabia Refuses To Learn From Its Two Failed Oil Price Wars Having failed to achieve the slightest semblance of success in the two oil price wars that it started – the first running from 2014 to 2016, and the second running from the beginning of March to effectively the end of April this year […]
How Saudi Arabia Caused The Worst Oil Price Crash In History
How Saudi Arabia Caused The Worst Oil Price Crash In History Saudi Arabia made good on its promise to flood the market with oil after the collapse of the previous OPEC+ deal in early March. The Kingdom’s oil exports jumped by 3.15 million bpd to 11.34 million bpd in April. Saudi Arabia made good on […]
Oil Price War Puts Entire Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia At Risk
Oil Price War Puts Entire Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia At Risk At no time since Ibn Saud first consolidated his Arabian conquests into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1932 has the ruling Saud dynasty faced such an existential threat to its continued rule over the country. It is true that Saudi Arabia has been […]
US To Remove Patriot Missile Protection From Saudi Arabia Amid Oilpocalypse
US To Remove Patriot Missile Protection From Saudi Arabia Amid Oilpocalypse Petrodollar panic? As tensions between OPEC (cough – the Saudis – cough) and Washington rise over the supply (and price) of oil globally amid a pandemic-driven demand collapse, it would appears President Trump may have just gone ‘nuclear’. “…there will be blood.” The Wall Street Journal […]
Trump Could Use ‘Nuclear Option’ To Make Saudi Arabia Pay For Oil War
Trump Could Use ‘Nuclear Option’ To Make Saudi Arabia Pay For Oil War President Donald Trump is considering all options available to him to make the Saudis pay for the oil price war as the crash that followed has done significant damage to the U.S. oil industry With last month having seen the indignity of […]
The Saudi-Russian oil price war tag team: Are things what they seem?
The Saudi-Russian oil price war tag team: Are things what they seem? To the casual observer Saudi Arabia and Russia, two of the top three producers of oil in the world, have been having a spat about what to do about low oil prices. (See here and here.) Each has accused the other of bad faith and counterproductive […]
Oil Turns Negative After Russia, Saudis Agree To Cap Output At 8.5MM B/D For 2 Months
Oil Turns Negative After Russia, Saudis Agree To Cap Output At 8.5MM B/D For 2 Months Update (1350ET): What started off euphorically, has quickly become R-OPEC’s latest dud, with oil now sliding red on the day after earlier surging more than 10%, following the latest news out of the oil producerteleconference, according to which Russia and […]
The OPEC Meeting Could Send Oil Prices Crashing Below $10
The OPEC Meeting Could Send Oil Prices Crashing Below $10 The current optimism of analysts and the media that an end to the ongoing OPEC+ oil price spat is near is entirely unjustified. The ongoing oil market volatility, the battle between leading producers for market share, the logistical impossibility of enforcing U.S. production cuts, and […]
Whiting Petroleum Files For Prepackaged Bankruptcy
Whiting Petroleum Files For Prepackaged Bankruptcy Talk about a coincidence: just as we were discussing why April would be “apocalyptic” for the oil industry, as Saudi Arabia just unleashed an unprecedented record amount of oil to buyers in a scramble to put its high-priced competitors out of business, warning that “countless oil producers would file […]
The Unthinkable Is Happening: Oil Storage Space Is About To Run Out
The Unthinkable Is Happening: Oil Storage Space Is About To Run Out In the past three weeks, oil plunged and has continued to plunge even more in the aftermath of the oil price war declared between Saudi Arabia and Russia, and where US shale (and its junk bonds) has been caught in the crossfire. However, […]
The Inevitable Outcome Of The Oil Price War
The Inevitable Outcome Of The Oil Price War One might reasonably posit that when Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) signalled that Saudi Arabia was once again going to produce oil to the maximum to crash oil prices in a full-scale oil price war, Russian President Vladimir Putin probably fell off the horse he was […]
