Favorable Winds Ahead
9-Mar-2018: The overall tone of “Oil 2018”, the latest IEA annual forecast of global oil demand, supply, refining and trade…
February Good for Cheniere’s Corpus Project, Bad for Sabine Pass
3 March 2018: February started well for Cheniere Energy’s Corpus Christ export project but there was bad news about…
Navigating Uncertainty
2 Mar 2018: Back in 2014, when oil prices were well above $100 per barrel, analysts regularly talked about a geopolitical…
Taking Stock Of Inventories
23-Feb-2018: Few oil publications are followed as closely as the Weekly Petroleum Status Report, published every Wednesday morning by the…
Darkest Before Dawn
16 Feb 2018: The tanker market of the end of 2017 and the beginning of 2018 will probably be remembered…
GAIL, Gazprom Finalize Renegotiated Supply Deal
13 February 2018:
India’s state-owned GAIL has finalized renegotiations with Russia’s Gazprom over a 20-year, 2.5-MMt/y long-term deal on…
Asian Buyers Take More Cargoes in ADP, UQT Supply Talks
13 February 2018:
Asian buyers are turning to upward quantity tolerance (UQT) and 2018 annual delivery programs (ADP) to…
WBG To Fund LNG Despite Upstream Oil, Gas Exit
13 February 2018:
Despite announcing that as of 2019 it will no longer make investments in upstream oil and…
LNG in World Markets: Special Contracts Issue
Collapse in LNG contract lengths and volumes raises future supply concerns
A dramatic acceleration of a trend toward smaller…Outages & Turnarounds
9 Feb 2018: According to the latest IEA Oil Market Report, global refinery crude throughput reached 82.2 million barrels per…
