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Showing posts with label Vitol. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vitol. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 12, 2014

The Bosphorus, a 'Wild Project' & Turkish politics

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The Oilholic spent better parts of the afternoon in pouring rain examining the strategic maritime artery known to world as the Bosphorus, a...
Thursday, March 06, 2014

Crude permutations of the Ukrainian stand-off

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When the Russo-Georgian skirmish happened in 2008, European policymakers got a stark reminder of how reliant they were on Russian natura...
Sunday, March 03, 2013

Brent’s liquidity, Nexen, 'crude' Vancouver & more

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Last Friday, the Brent forward month futures price plummeted to US$110.65 per barrel thereby losing all of the gains it made in 2013. The W...
Tuesday, May 08, 2012

Clinton in Crudeland, Ghanem’s death & Cressier

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US secretary of state Hillary Clinton has been clocking up air miles trying to persuade India and China to import less of the crude stuff f...
Sunday, January 08, 2012

Examining a crude 2011 & talking Iran vs. 2012

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As the Oilholic conjectured at the end of 2010, the year 2011 did indeed see Brent Crude at “around US$105 to US$110 a barrel”. However the...
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...
Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Crude 7 days & wayward Hayward’s comeback?

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It is not often that we talk about Jean-Claude Trichet – the inimitable and outgoing European Central Bank president here, but last week he ...
Wednesday, June 08, 2011

OPEC, Libya, Vitol & the “No winners” brigade

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Now that the meeting is all over, it is worth noting that the ‘acting’ Iranian oil minister – Mohammad Aliabadi – was not the only one new ...