OPEC oil supply in April is at its highest since December 2018, a company that tracks oil shipments said on April 28, as producers pump at will before a new supply-limiting pact takes effect in May. The month-on-month increase is more than 2 MMbbl/d, Daniel Gerber, CEO of Geneva-based Petro-Logistics, …
Read More »Oil Market So Glutted Traders Turn to Tiny Barges to Store Fuels
The oil market is getting so glutted that tiny barges that would normally be busily moving fuels around Europe’s petroleum-trading hub are suddenly storing traders’ cargoes instead.
Read More »Oil Slips Below $15/bbl as Production Cuts Begin
Oil dropped back below $15 a barrel as swelling global crude stockpiles made it more difficult for leading producers to balance the market by curbing output.
Read More »Russia and Saudi Arabia Fight over Oil Market Share
China imported 31 percent more oil from Russia last month while its intake of Saudi crude slipped by 1.8 percent compared to March 2019, Reuters reported, citing calculations based on official customs data. Overall crude oil imports rose by 4.5 percent on the year to 9.68 million bpd. Of the …
Read More »China Boosts Oil Imports from Russia
Shipments of Russian crude oil to China increased more than 30 percent in March compared to a year earlier while Saudi imports of the commodity sank, Reuters reported, citing Chinese customs data. As crumbling demand for crude and lack of storage space have been wreaking havoc on the oil market, …
Read More »Baghdad Discloses Iraqi Oil Exports Volume to East Asia
The world economy will improve after the end of Corona crisis in East Asia, especially as the Republic of China which is the largest importer of crude oil in the world,” The Prime Minister’s Advisor for Economic Affairs, Mathehar Mohammad Salih revealed on Sunday. ” 80% Iraqi oil exports goes …
Read More »NIDC Drills 15 Wells in March 20-April 20
The National Iranian Drilling Company (NIDC) has successfully spudded 15 oil and gas wells in oil-rich regions of the country in the first month of the Iranian calendar year (March 20-April 20, 2020).
Read More »Operations under Way in Goreh-Jask Pipeline
Construction of the Goreh-Jask oil pipeline is under way in all sectors of the strategic project in full compliance with health protocols.
Read More »Saudi Aramco Starts Cutting Output Ahead of May 1 OPEC+ Target
Saudi Aramco started reducing production earlier this week ahead of the May 1 deadline when new OPEC+ output targets kick in, according to a Saudi industry official familiar with the matter. Aramco started to reduce production from about 12 million barrels a day to achieve the new level of 8.5 …
Read More »WTI, April 20 and What Happened
To get the answers to some questions,about oil futures market don't miss this report, which was sent to Shana by an oil market analyst familiar with the oil market.
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