The oil-price plunge could create a historic precedent in which the US may finally help boost the sinking energy market, albeit involuntarily, instead of benefiting at the expense of others, oil executive Mike Cantrell believes. The price of US benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) contract for May finished trading on …
Read More »Coronavirus Destroys Oil-Dependent Economy of Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia may have won a brief no-holds-barred oil price war with Russia, but observers say it hastened a coronavirus-led energy slump despite a subsequent historic deal to slash production. “This has changed everything,” chief economist at Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank Monica Malik told Bloomberg in an article published on …
Read More »Saudi Energy Firm Helps Build Mobile Hospital for Pandemic
The fully-equipped facility is part of the nation’s commitment to minimising Covid-19 casualties and is scheduled to start operations within 70 days of construction starting.
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 »Oil Price Crash may not Benefit India due to Falling Demand and Full Tanks
Monday’s crude oil price collapse may not have much impact on Indian refiners or on pump prices at least till June but could spoil the prospects of oil giants such as Saudi Aramco pouring billions to buy stakes in local refineries such as Reliance Industries Ltd, Bharat Petroleum Corporation or …
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 »Saudis Deny Claim That Crude Export to US Rose Last Month
Saudi Arabian oil official on Saturday refuted the conclusion of an analytics firm that the country’s oil exports to the US dramatically increased in the last month. TankerTrackers.com said on Thursday that Saudi Arabian oil exports to the US more than doubled from February to March as oil prices crashed. …
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 »Russian, Saudi Energy Ministers Reaffirm Commitment to New OPEC+ Deal
Both countries are also committed, if necessary, to take further measures to stabilise the market, which has been extremely volatile recently, together with the alliance and other states. Russia and Saudi Arabia are firmly committed to the implementation of the new OPEC+ oil output cut deal, the Russian Energy Ministry …
Read More »Too Late for OPEC+ Cuts to Save the Physical Oil Market
The physical oil market, where millions of barrels of real cargoes are traded each day, needed OPEC+’s historic cuts to global crude production months ago. On Sunday, producer nations pledged to limit output by an unprecedented 10% of global supply. While there’s skepticism the cuts will prove deep enough — …
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