Oilholics Synonymous Report

Before the recent global stock market carnage hit, bulls in the oil market had already revised their pipe-dream of $100 per barrel Brent pri...

It's been a hectic few weeks in the energy markets over the course of which oil prices have acquired a bit of buoyancy. Its something th...

On June 2nd, OPEC+ decided to adopt a pensive position rather than a defensive or offensive one and it promptly sent the oil market into a t...

As the first month of the current oil trading year nears its end, the Oilholic's thoughts on the direction of crude prices hasn't ma...

Crude oil benchmarks have been bouncing up and down for over 10 days in the wake of geopolitical tension in the Middle East. Predictably, mu...

What a difference a fortnight makes - for this blogger was musing end-August on how oil benchmarks were pretty much staying rangebound in th...

We're four months from the end of crude trading year 2023 and oil prices appear to be stuck at $80+ per barrel levels. And for all the m...

Oh what a 'crude' year 2020 turned out to be as the Covid-19 pandemic ravaged the global economy and our lives, and even briefly cre...

In the nine days that have lapsed since yours truly last wrote a blog post, the crude oil market has gone crude and cruder, peppered with b...

Of late, the global oil market has seen what can aptly be described as range-bound volatility. No matter what the bulls throw at it, move...

The last fortnight has just zipped by with so much going on in the energy market that the Oilholic did not get time to pen his thoughts her...

As the crazy month of May comes to a close, commentators using the supply constriction and geopolitical risk premium pretexts to big up pri...

The Oilholic has had a hectic start to 2019 for sure, even though the crude market has behaved pretty predictably in January, having recove...

Here's how the 2018 oil market shaped up ( click to enlarge chart below ), and some thoughts on what OPEC's shale dilemma means for ...

In case you haven't heard dear readers, which the Oilholic doubts or you wouldn't be reading an oil market blog - OPEC has calmed t...

Two charts real quick while waiting for OPEC to make an announcement - (1) Direction of the OPEC price basket (including Qatar) and (2) Whe...

It's the usual manic start to the 175th OPEC Ministers' Meeting here in Vienna, Austria. For those unfamiliar with the drill, he...

The Oilholic arrived for visit number 25 to Vienna, Austria, for the 175th Meeting of OPEC Ministers on Wednesday (December 5) with a ...

As the Oilholic headed for a splash and dash visit to the familiar surroundings of Vienna on another early morning British Airways flight t...

What a commotion we had in the oil markets last week, when Tuesday's (November 13) session saw an intraday decline of 8% for the West...