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Is China’s Oil Demand Set For A Major Bounce Back?
Is China’s Oil Demand Set For A Major Bounce Back? China’s extraordinary economic expansion almost singlehandedly drove a supercycle in key commodities since the mid-90s. This robust performance across several major sectors in China’s economy is in sharp contrast to the growth drivers seen last year. China continues to buy oil from Russia and Iran […]
The Four Key Reasons Why The U.S. Will Never Stop Targeting Russia’s LNG Sector
The Four Key Reasons Why The U.S. Will Never Stop Targeting Russia’s LNG Sector LNG has become the most important swing energy source in an increasingly insecure world. Energy exports remain the foundation stone of Russia’s essentially petro-economy. Russia’s LNG industry is closely associated in Russia with President Vladimir Putin personally. Perhaps even more than […]
The New Global Oil Market Order Hangs In The Balance After Hamas Attacks Israel
The New Global Oil Market Order Hangs In The Balance After Hamas Attacks Israel Palestinian political and military organisation Hamas launched coordinated multi-pronged attacks by land, sea, and air against Israel last weekend. The potential for the Hamas attacks on Israel to suck in other Arab states into the conflict, and for it to then […]
Is Saudi Arabia Exaggerating Its Oil Production Potential?
Is Saudi Arabia Exaggerating Its Oil Production Potential? For years, Saudi Arabia has made some pretty hefty claims about its oil potential. It is becoming increasingly clear, however, that the Kingdom may be stretching the truth a little too far. Analysts are now beginning to doubt that Saudi Arabia even has the reserves it says […]
China Could Cause The Next Massive Crash In Oil Prices
China Could Cause The Next Massive Crash In Oil Prices China has been one of the main drivers of the 2000-2014 commodities supercycle Slower economic growth and a huge debt bubble pose a tremendous risk to oil markets China’s Evergrande crisis shows the fragility of the Chinese debt market Given the extreme disconnect between China’s […]
Iran’s Huge Caspian Gas Find Is A Geopolitical Gamechanger
Iran’s Huge Caspian Gas Find Is A Geopolitical Gamechanger Iran last week revealed a huge new gas deposit located in the Iranian sector of the Caspian Sea. The ‘Chalous’ structure is to be developed with the intention of forming a new gas hub in northern Iran to complement the southern gas hub centred on the […]
How Much Oil Can Saudi Arabia Really Produce?
How Much Oil Can Saudi Arabia Really Produce? For decades, the true numbers relating to Saudi Arabia’s level of crude oil reserves and production have been a subject of much debate and confusion, not helped by the obfuscation from the Saudis over precisely what these numbers are. The reason for obfuscation is that Saudi Arabia’s […]
Game-changing Iranian Pipeline Set To Launch In March
Game-changing Iranian Pipeline Set To Launch In March The geopolitically game-changing Goreh-Jask pipeline project saw a major advance last week with the commencement last week of offshore pipe-laying operations. The implementation of this operation markets the first stage of the offshore development of the Jask Oil Terminal and, according to the Pars Oil and Gas […]
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 […]
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 […]
