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The prince's plan to diversify the economy of the world’s largest crude exporter spans more than 10,000 square miles in a remote area of Saudi Arabia's northwest. It’s described on its website as “a bold and audacious dream” that will become a hub for new technologies and businesses. View the full article
The pipeline, which will carry Canadian oil-sands crude from Alberta to Superior, Wisconsin, has faced fierce opposition from indigenous and environmental groups, who clashed with law enforcement last week. View the full article
The Middle East is set to lead capacity growth in the global gas processing industry from planned and announced projects between 2021 and 2025 and account for around 37% to the global gas processing capacity growth by 2025, GlobalData projects. View the full article
Led by $2.59 billion asset transaction with BP Exploration (Epsilon), Middle East and Africa’s oil and gas industry saw a drop of 32.92% in deal activity during Q1 2021, when compared to the last four-quarter average, according to GlobalData’s deals database. View the full article
AMLO has turned the Texas freeze crisis into a rallying cry for more energy independence, weaponizing it to advance a nationalist agenda that has implications beyond natural gas imports and threatens tens of billions of dollars of investments in renewable energy by U.S., Canadian and European energy companies. View the full article
Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is raising Pemex’s spending plan for next year to about $32 billion in a bid to boost flagging oil production. View the full article
As the government pushes for a constitutional reform to electricity laws, Finance Minister Ramirez de la O said now “would be a little late” to change overall energy laws that last decade gave private companies access to the Mexican market. View the full article
Mexico plans to end crude oil exports in 2023 as part of a strategy by the nationalist government of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to reach self-sufficiency in the domestic fuels market. View the full article
The resolution ends a long-standing conflict between Pemex and Houston-based Talos over the field, which contains as many as one billion barrels of oil equivalent. View the full article
Although natural gas exports from Mexico are today non-existent, seeing as it produces too little of the power-plant fuel to supply its own domestic needs, the country’s proximity to booming U.S. reserves positions it well to supply American gas to hungry buyers in Europe and Asia. View the full article
Lowering Mexico's tax demands on Pemex, its biggest taxpayer, could help the oil giant reorder its finances as it struggles with a $110.3 billion debt load, sinking production, and some of the highest tax obligations of any oil company in the world. View the full article
The resolution ends a long-standing conflict between Pemex and Houston-based Talos over the field, which contains as many as one billion barrels of oil equivalent. View the full article
Mexico could slash Pemex’s taxes further as the world’s most indebted oil company scrambles to reverse long-term oil production declines. View the full article
Vitol Group and Trafigura Group -- both barred from new oil-trading business with Mexico’s state producer for alleged corruption -- will be subject to the ban until at least the end of 2024 while the government reviews the conduct of other commodity traders, Energy Minister Rocio Nahle said. View the full article
Environmentalists are calling on the Biden administration to crack down on methane leaks from low-producing U.S. oil wells, after new research shows they are releasing a disproportionate share of the potent greenhouse gas. View the full article
Over the long-term, the impacts of behavioral shifts due to COVID-19 are minor compared to “known” long-term shifts such as decreasing car ownership, growing fuel efficiencies and a trend towards electric vehicles, whose impact is estimated to be three-to-nine times higher than the pandemic’s by 2050. View the full article
McDermott International, Ltd announced that its CBandI Storage Solutions business has been awarded a contract by Atlantic Gulf and Pacific Company of Manila Inc. (AGandP) for the engineering, procurement and construction of an LNG storage tank for AGandP's Philippines LNG import and regasification terminal, currently under construction in Batangas, Philippines. View the full article
African energy sector investment platform Energy Capital & Power has created a coalition with Mauritania’s Energy Ministry and NOC to attract foreign stakeholder interest in the country’s potential renewable projects and 28 offshore blocks that are open for bids. View the full article
The U.S. Energy Department awarded a second batch of crude oil from the strategic reserve to Marathon Petroleum Corp. as part of the Biden administration’s effort to lower energy costs. View the full article
Contrary to the tone of some news coverage, an analyst at Evercore ISI sees the overnight news that Senator Manchin convened a bipartisan group, together with Senator Murkowski (R-AK), to discuss a bipartisan energy bill, as bad news for the prospects of energy legislation before the midterm elections. View the full article
Senator Joe Manchin has told the White House and congressional leaders that he will not support including a key clean-power provision in the Democrats’ spending package, putting at risk a central element of the legislation designed to fight climate change, according to a person familiar with the matter. View the full article
Democratic Senator Joe Manchin is enlisting the help of energy-industry executives to marshal Republican support for his plan to speed up the process of getting federal approvals for energy projects, according to people familiar with the matter. View the full article
Energy Workforce continues to digest the potential reconciliation deal — the “Inflation Reduction Act” — in the Senate. Initial thoughts are mixed; some provisions may be beneficial to our sector while others will be negative. View the full article
The Pew Research Center released a new poll which found that nearly two-thirds of the U.S. public opposes phasing out fossil fuels as a means of addressing climate change. View the full article
Major energy traders including Gunvor Group Ltd. and Mercuria Energy Group Ltd. have reduced the size of their trading positions and increased borrowing from lenders to cover large margin calls stemming from the unprecedented surge in European gas prices, according to people familiar with the matter. View the full article
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About this blog
I started this blog to express what I sense about the highs and lows of the oil realm, while cautiously analysing historical data, taking into account the geo-political development at the time of recording them.
I got into this field, having been a passive observer of fluctuations of crude oil prices and their global consequences for years.
Then, when on the day of Great Oil Crash in April, 2020, I made a decision to make my own blog, with the motto, ‘analysing data that really matters’.
Having come from an academic background in mathematics and physics, I analyse data using my own tools, created with JavaScript and Python, taking my decision on board while making decisions.
