Oilholics Synonymous Report

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...

It has been another crazy fortnight in the crude markets, with Brent not only having retreated from $70 per barrel, but trading below $65, a...

In 1999, the merger of Exxon and Mobil created what could be described as an oil & gas industry behemoth and, using some financial metr...

If the oil companies had answers to the energy crisis, and in some cases maybe they do, would you believe them? Given that most of us grow ...

After a short trip to India, the Oilholic bids farewell to Delhi via its swanky impressive new terminal at Indira Gandhi International airpo...

The Oilholic attended the British lobby group CBI’s annual conference earlier today listening to UK Prime Minister David Cameron flag-up his...

Crude oil price should reflect a simple supply-demand equation, but it rarely does in the world of oil index funds, ETFs and loose foresight...

The resource curse hypothesis has its detractors and supporters in equal measure. The vanguard of many a commodities bubble – crude oil – o...

Oil will continue to power global economies in the main for decades  in the absence of a viable alternative taking off meaningfully, but hav...

Instability or risk premium is not being reflected in the US Mid West as much as it is in Europe in light of the Libyan situation. Followin...

The largest daily newspaper in Texas – is still the Houston Chronicle, but while its reach extends well beyond the city, its character is un...

Both the IEA and OPEC are now more upbeat about the global economic recovery over 2011, which could mean only one thing – an upward revisi...

I must say the New Year has commenced with a flurry of crude news. Traders and oil men had barely resumed work for the first trading day of ...

Recapping the last fortnight, I noted some pretty interesting market chatter in the run-up to the end of the year. Crude talk cannot be comp...

A recent report by ratings agency Moody’s suggests that Russian integrated oil and gas companies demonstrated financial robustness during th...

Nigeria is a complicated country - a confused ex-colonial outpost with a complex ethnic and tribal mix turned into a unified nation and give...

As widely expected, OPEC announced on Thursday that its members have agreed to keep its official oil production target at 24.84 million barr...

As OPEC ministers and the world’s press descend on Vienna for the 157th OPEC meeting on Thursday, I cannot but help remarking that the city ...

We are nearing the end of September and crude oil just cannot shake off the linkage with perceived (rather than prevalent) risks to the heal...

The debate over the “peak oil” hypothesis used to keep rearing its head from time to time in media and commodities circles – but of late it ...