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Showing posts with label Iran. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iran. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Are we back to fundamentals as oil prices tank further?

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For the second successive session this week oil prices have slid further and faster. After Monday's declines of over 2%, Tuesday has log...
Monday, January 20, 2020

Summing up the geopolitics heavy last 4 weeks!

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The end of the previous trading year and the start of the new one is usually a slow burner for crude  oil traders. However, the four or s...
Friday, December 06, 2019

Late one to early crude commotion at OPEC

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So after having kept analysts and media in the OPEC Secretariat almost till midnight, and then not issuing a final brief, the producers&#...
Saturday, September 21, 2019

Why drone attacks on Saudi Aramco haven’t sparked sustained oil price spike

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The Oilholic returned from researching enhanced oil recovery in rural Pennsylvania on Friday (September 13), only to wake up to a tumultuou...
Friday, July 19, 2019

Gauging Wall Street's 'crude' mood

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The Oilholic has just about rounded up a near week-long power markets trip to New York, including a visit to understand the energy supply...
Friday, June 14, 2019

A calmer view on oil market volatility

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The Oilholic is just about to end his latest visit to Oslo, Norway following a two-day energy technology event but decided to stop en ro...
Friday, December 07, 2018

OPEC/Non-OPEC cut at 1.2m bpd; Iran's smiling

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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...
Thursday, December 06, 2018

No Show: OPEC press conference cancelled

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In a rather unprecedented development of sorts, the 175th OPEC Summit's concluding press conference was cancelled, as member nations ...
Sunday, May 13, 2018

Crude talk in H-Town

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As the Oilholic prepares to say yet another goodbye to Houston, one cannot but help wondering why the new found pragmatism here over the ...
Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Japan’s return to Iranian market ‘complicated’

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The Oilholic is back in Tokyo, some 6,000 miles east of London, and is finding Japan Inc. rather content with a crude oil buyers’ market....
Friday, December 04, 2015

Saudis, Iranians not budging - short baby short!

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It’s not official yet, but highly likely that an OPEC quota cut is not on cards as the Saudis won’t budge and the Iranians, hoping to ret...
Monday, September 21, 2015

Bypassing the Strait of Hormuz from Fujairah

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The Oilholic recently found himself roughly 127 km east of Dubai in the United Arab Emirate of Fujairah for a speaking engagement at the ...
Tuesday, June 16, 2015

‘Unfit’ Brent, OPEC’s health & market volatility

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As the August Brent futures contract traded firmly below US$65 a barrel days after publication of the latest Saudi production data, Londo...
Tuesday, October 21, 2014

The inimitable Mr de Margerie (1951 – 2014)

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The Oilholic woke up to the sad news that Total CEO and Chairman Christophe de Margerie had been killed in a plane crash at Moscow’s Vnuk...
Thursday, June 19, 2014

Iran O&G projects: A possible market comeback?

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The Oilholic has been tweeting like mad from the 21st World Petroleum Congress over a hectic few days, though not all of the chirps are &#...
Tuesday, December 03, 2013

OPEC's politics is the main show, not the quota

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The Oilholic finds himself in a decidedly chilly Vienna ahead of the 164th meeting of OPEC ministers. This blogger's correspondence o...
Sunday, August 25, 2013

The Strait of Hormuz & Omani moves

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The view of the Strait of Hormuz ( pictured left ) from the Musandam Peninsula is amazing. Let's face it - it's easier for the Oilh...