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The latest data from the group indicate that the world will continue to face an oil supply deficit in the coming months even as its members revive idle production. View the full article
OPEC Secretary-General Mohammad Barkindo, an oil industry veteran who steered the group through the creation of the OPEC+ alliance, has died in his native Nigeria. He was 63. View the full article
OPEC expects that oil stockpiles released by consuming nations could massively swell the surplus in global markets. View the full article
OPEC+ headed for a clash with the U.S. as more members rejected President Joe Biden’s call for the group to raise oil production faster and help reduce gasoline prices. View the full article
OPEC+ technical experts downgraded their expectations for how tight global oil markets will be this quarter, a week before ministers meet to decide production policy. View the full article
The coalition led by Saudi Arabia and Russia believes that the glut created during the pandemic has nearly gone, and that oil stockpiles will diminish rapidly in the second half of the year as lockdowns ease and travel gathers pace. View the full article
OPEC and its allies expect global oil markets will continue to tighten this year even as they revive output, but then flip into surplus again in 2022. View the full article
OPEC sees oil demand continuing to grow to the middle of next decade, even as world leaders prepare for another attempt to avert catastrophic climate change. View the full article
Oil consumption will climb by 5%, or about 5 million barrels a day, in the second half of 2021 versus the first as the world emerges from the pandemic slump, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries forecast in a report. View the full article
The OPEC+ cartel’s production policy will be the main factor influencing oil prices over the coming months, according to Vitol Group. View the full article
OPEC and its allies will meet on Sunday, the latest sign that a bitter standoff between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates has been resolved. View the full article
In the August Short-Term Energy Outlook, the U.S. Energy Information Administration forecasts larger than previously expected world petroleum inventory draws in 2021 and larger inventory builds in 2022. View the full article
OPEC and its allies have been constricting oil supplies since the pandemic crushed demand almost a year ago. To disperse the lingering stockpile surplus, the Saudis pledged extra crude reductions during February and March. View the full article
OPEC and its allies once again failed to pump enough oil to meet their output targets, exacerbating the supply deficit as the world recovers from the coronavirus pandemic. View the full article
OPEC and its allies can likely continue reviving oil production, two key Middle East members said as the group prepares to consider its next supply hike. View the full article
The coalition led by Saudi Arabia was widely criticized three weeks ago when it rebuffed calls to revive some of the crude production halted during the pandemic. As OPEC prepares for another decision on oil output, the producers believe their defiantly cautious approach is paying off. View the full article
While the usual differences between Russia and Saudi Arabia are present, all sides are ready to increase production, putting OPEC on track to implement the majority of the 1.5 million barrels per day output increase that’s up for debate on Thursday. View the full article
If the world were to follow the International Energy Agency’s controversial road map, which said investment in new fields would have to stop immediately to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, “the price for oil will go to, what, $200? Gas prices will skyrocket,” said Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak. View the full article
If the world were to follow the International Energy Agency’s controversial road map, which said investment in new fields would have to stop immediately to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, “the price for oil will go to, what, $200? Gas prices will skyrocket,” said Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak. View the full article
Based on the report from its Vienna-based research department, the restart ought to be urgently needed. OPEC’s data suggest that world inventories should be depleting rapidly now and — unless the group opens the taps — face a substantial shortfall of more than 3 MMbpd in the fourth quarter. View the full article
Based on the report from its Vienna-based research department, the restart ought to be urgently needed. OPEC’s data suggest that world inventories should be depleting rapidly now and — unless the group opens the taps — face a substantial shortfall of more than 3 MMbpd in the fourth quarter. View the full article
A preliminary deal struck on Thursday to increase oil production by 400,000 barrels per day was thrown into chaos when the United Arab Emirates threatened to block the deal without a higher output quota for itself. View the full article
OPEC increased its forecast for global oil demand in the first quarter substantially, as some of this year’s recovery is delayed by Omicron but the overall risk from the new virus strain remains limited. View the full article
OPEC and its allies will stick to their slow pace of oil-production increases, disregarding U.S. President Joe Biden’s demand to go faster and increasing the odds that oil consuming nations will tap strategic reserves to lower consumer prices.. View the full article
OPEC and its allies will stick to their slow pace of oil-production increases, disregarding U.S. President Joe Biden’s demand to go faster and increasing the odds that oil consuming nations will tap strategic reserves to lower consumer prices. 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.
