Brent oil may break a support at $72.33 per barrel and fall towards $70.98, as suggested by its wave pattern and a projection analysis. The correction from the July 6 high of $77.84 is riding on a wave IV, which looks sideways. It has three component waves. The third wave …
Read More »Oil Falls over Surplus Fears as OPEC+ Agrees to Boost Output
Oil prices fell more than $1 a barrel on Monday after the OPEC+ group of producers overcame internal divisions and agreed to boost output, sparking some concerns about a crude surplus as Covid-19 infections continue to rise in many countries. Brent crude was down $1.08, or 1.5%, at $72.51 a …
Read More »OPEC Agrees to Deal to Inject more Oil into the Recovering Global Economy
OPEC and its allies struck a deal to inject more oil into the recovering global economy, overcoming an internal split that threatened the cartel’s control of the crude market. An unusually public dispute that tested the group’s unity was resolved in a classic compromise — with Saudi Arabia meeting the …
Read More »Azerbaijan Supports Monthly Increase in Oil Production until End of Year under OPEC+
At the 19th meeting of the ministers of the member countries of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and non-OPEC countries, Azerbaijan supported the decision to extend the “Declaration of Cooperation” until the end of 2022, which implies an increase in daily crude oil production by 400 thousand …
Read More »Blue Hydrogen has a Methane Problem
Amid the global transition to clean fuel, conventional oil and gas companies appear to have found a way to stay relevant: blue hydrogen. Hydrogen, typically produced by breaking methane inside liquefied natural gas into hydrogen and carbon, is labeled as blue, when all carbon emissions from this process are captured, …
Read More »High Oil Prices could Fuel EV Adoption
As oil prices continue to rise and global demand is bouncing back to pre-pandemic levels, people could be buying into electric vehicles (EV) as an alternative to expensive fuel costs. The International Energy Agency (IEA) says that rising oil prices are expected to encourage people to shift away from traditional …
Read More »OPEC+ Plans to Hold Output Policy Meeting Today
OPEC+ members plan to hold their next meeting today, July 18, to decide on output policy, Reuters reported, citing sources within the producers group. The group did not reach an agreement on oil production policy, starting from August, during the two meetings held earlier this month, while a third meeting …
Read More »EU Court Says Russia should Limit Gas Supply to Europe
The Court of Justice of the European Union upheld on Thursday a lower tribunal’s ruling which had said that Russia’s access to the OPAL gas pipeline should be limited. The court case is a win for Poland against an appeal of the lower court’s ruling filed by Germany. The OPAL …
Read More »OPEC+ Plans New Meeting on Sunday
OPEC and its allies, a group known as OPEC+, plan to hold their next meeting on Sunday to decide on their output policy, two OPEC+ sources told Reuters.
Read More »World’s Recoverable Oil Resources Shrinks By 9%
Every year and following the publication of the BP Statistical Review, Rystad Energy releases its own assessment to provide an independent, solid and clear comparison of how the world’s energy landscape changed last year. Our 2021 review deals a major blow for the size of the world’s remaining recoverable oil …
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