President Donald Trump is considering all options available to him to make the Saudis pay for the oil price war as the crash that followed has done significant damage to the U.S. oil industry With last month having seen the indignity of the principal U.S. oil benchmark, West Texas Intermediate …
Read More »China should Play Off Oil Producers against Each Other in Crisis
Oil is now a buyer’s market and China is the world’s largest purchaser of crude. As prices have plunged to multi-decade lows, the country may be reaping geopolitical advantages, if not economic benefits. China relies on imports for more than 70 per cent of domestic consumption. However, some commentators have …
Read More »US Refiners in Harm’s Way If Trump Blocks Saudi Oil
President Trump has spent significant political capital during the coronavirus pandemic tending to the wounds of shale oil producers, but refiners who transform the crude into fuels for consumers are suffering as well. Refineries, with no demand for their fuel, are already operating at about 30% lower capacity than what …
Read More »Historic Fall in US Oil Prices Amid Virus Outbreak
When the capital city of Tehran partially emerged out of the shutdown on Saturday, we witnessed some traffic on the roads for the first time after almost a month, since the beginning of Nowruz holidays.
Read More »Coronavirus & Oil Price Ally Against Trump
Nowadays, the black gold experiences a dark time and sharp fall of oil price has cast a shadow on the political economy sector to show that the world’s economy is not going well.
Read More »Trump, Coronavirus Go Hand in Hand to Make American Crude Valueless
Monday, April 20, 2020 was a historic day for oil market. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) closed below zero for the first time.
Read More »Trump Wants to Add 75 MMbbl to SPR, Considers Blocking Saudi Shipments
President Donald Trump said he wants to add as much as 75 million barrels of oil to the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve, taking advantage of record low prices for crude, and that he’ll consider blocking imports of crude from Saudi Arabia. Oil is at “a level that’s very interesting to …
Read More »America Describes the Oil Collapse as Short Term
US President Donald Trump described the historic collapse in oil prices as short-term and caused by “financial pressure,” adding that his administration would consider stopping oil shipments from Saudi Arabia. Trump said at a daily press conference that his administration also plans to increase the level of crude oil stockpiles …
Read More »Saudi Arabia’s Client-State Relationship with the US should Concern the Whole World
When Saudi Arabia approached members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and its affiliates recently to cut oil production in an attempt to cushion the impact of the falling oil prices as a result of Covid-19, Russia rejected the proposal. The subsequent spat between Moscow and Riyadh saw …
Read More »Trump Hails OPEC+ Agreement to Cut Oil Production for Saving U.S. Energy Jobs
U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday welcomed a deal to cut oil production reached by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and some other major oil producing countries, known as OPEC+, as it will save hundreds of thousands of U.S. energy jobs. “The big Oil Deal with OPEC …
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