OPEC members are pushing against attempts to include language on “phasing out” fossil fuels in a UN Climate Change Conference, or COP 28, deal, highlighting the struggle over whether the summit can for the first time in 30 years address the future of oil and gas. Negotiators and observers at …
Read More »Oil Heads for Seven-Week Decline for First Time in Half a Decade
Oil benchmarks were on track for a seven-week decline on Friday, their first in half a decade, on worries about a supply surplus and weak Chinese demand, though prices rebounded after Saudi Arabia and Russia lobbied OPEC+ members to join output cuts. Brent crude futures were up $1.46, or 2%, …
Read More »Aramco’s Nasser Calls for Higher Upstream Spend
Speaking at COP28 in Dubai, Saudi Aramco CEO Amin Nasser repeated calls for more upstream investment in the interests of both energy security and to meet growing global demand. Those arguing against fossil fuels have criticized oil and gas industry expansion plans. However, the United Arab Emirates — a fellow …
Read More »Oil Mixed as OPEC+ Supply Uncertainties Blur Outlook
Oil prices were mixed in early trade on Wednesday as markets sought direction amid uncertainties over OPEC+ supply cuts and a surprise build in US crude oil inventories that cast doubts on the country’s demand outlook. International benchmark crude Brent traded at $77.28 per barrel at 9.23 a.m. local time …
Read More »Oil Down as Uncertainty over OPEC+ Supply Cuts, Demand Growth Weighs
Oil futures reversed course after rising briefly on Monday amid persistent pressure from the OPEC+ decision and uncertainty over global fuel demand growth, although the risk of supply disruptions from the Middle East conflict limited the losses. Brent crude futures were down 0.9 percent, or 73 cents, to $78.15 a …
Read More »Oil Prices Fall more than 2% as Investors Wary of OPEC+ Cuts
Oil prices slumped more than 2% on Friday following a volatile trading week, as the market kept a wary eye on the latest round of OPEC+ production cuts and sluggish global manufacturing activity. Brent crude futures for February settled $1.98 lower, or 2.45%, to $78.88 a barrel on their first …
Read More »Oil Prices Retreat as OPEC+ Cuts another 684KBPD, Brazil Joins OPEC+
Oil prices began to retreat on Thursday afternoon as it became clear that OPEC+ members were agreeing to voluntary cuts beginning in the new year, and that those cuts would be announced only by each member country instead of by the group as a whole. OPEC+ announced during the full …
Read More »OPEC+ Agrees Preliminary Oil Cut Deal of over 1mn bpd, Sources Say
OPEC+ oil producers are likely to agree output cuts of at least 1 million barrels per day (bpd) for early next year led by Saudi Arabia rolling over its voluntary additional cut and smaller curbs by others, two delegates told Reuters ahead of a virtual OPEC+ meeting on Thursday. Saudi …
Read More »Pressure between Titans before the OPEC Meeting
Oil prices – both WTI and Brent- are trading higher on Thursday, ahead of today’s meeting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). “Although yesterday there was talk that Saudi Arabia was pressuring its partners to implement a new cut of 1 million barrels per day in the …
Read More »Crude Prices March Upwards on OPEC Anticipation
Brent crude oil continued to rise on Wednesday, gaining 1.6% as the market focuses squarely on the OPEC+ meeting scheduled for Thursday, with analysts increasingly anticipating additional output restrictions on some level from the cartel. On Wednesday at 2:39 p.m. ET, Brent crude was trading at $82.99, up 1.60% for …
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