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Showing posts with label Chevron. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chevron. Show all posts
Monday, March 18, 2024

CERAWeek Day I: Aramco sets its stall in Houston

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The Oilholic is back in town for CERAWeek 2024 and the first day has been pretty interesting. Key moments included - Aramco's CEO Amin N...
Thursday, May 14, 2020

Big Oil quarterly earnings in the Covid-19 age

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The first Big Oil quarterly earnings season in the age of the coronavirus or Covid-19 global pandemic has gone revealing profit slumps, cape...
Friday, July 13, 2018

What to make of Chevron’s North Sea pullback?

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What was widely rumoured is now official – oil major Chevron has commenced the divestment of a number of its oil and gas fields in North ...
Sunday, April 10, 2016

Volatile yet flat-ish Q1 points to $40-50/bbl price

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The first quarter of 2016 has been pretty volatile for oil benchmarks. Yet if you iron out the relative daily ups and downs in percentage...
Saturday, January 18, 2014

Notes on a scandal from an ex-Enron pragmatist

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When the Enron scandal broke and that icon of corporate America filed for bankruptcy on December 1, 2001, the Oilholic was as stumped by ...
Thursday, August 22, 2013

On Abu Dhabi’s ‘spot’ chaps, ADNOC & INR

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It's good to spot a traditional dhow on millionaire's yacht row at the marina here in Abu Dhabi. Though a millionaire or some tour ...
Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Hawaii’s crude reality: Being a petrohead costs!

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In a break from the ‘crude’ norm for visits to the USA, the Oilholic packed his bags from California and headed deep out to the Pacific a...
Wednesday, October 10, 2012

On another BP sale, another Chavez term & more

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A not so surprising news flash arrived this week that BP has finally announced the sale of its Texas City refinery and allied assets to Mar...
Monday, September 17, 2012

On Brent's direction, OPEC, China & more

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Several conversations last week with contacts in the trading community, either side of the pond, seem to point to a market consensus that t...
Saturday, March 31, 2012

A Californian emission law, refiners & Muir woods

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When in town, spending a few hours watching shipping lanes in the San Francisco bay area is an old pastime of the Oilholic’s, especiall...
Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Speaking @ OPEC & WPC plus Dec's trading lows

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It’s been a hectic few weeks attending the OPEC conference in Vienna and the 20th World Petroleum Congress in Doha , but the Oilholic is no...
Sunday, May 15, 2011

Valero, BP, Crude price & the week that was!

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The seven days that have passed have been ‘crudely’ interesting to say the least. First off, early May saw one of the biggest market sell-of...