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• China's Crude Demand Soars As Maintenance Season Comes To An End

  Published 08 June 2017 | viewed 17,647 times

  Thanks to a 13 percent surge in crude imports (as refiners prepare for maintenance season), China's trade surplus hit its highest since Jan (though -4…

• Tesla In Hot Water After New Insurance Report

  Published 05 June 2017 | viewed 7,424 times

  AAA is raising premiums on Tesla vehicles by 30% after data showed that owners of Model S and Model X cars filed claims at abnormally…

• Is This The "Mystery" Massive Long Supporting The Oil Market?

  Published 30 May 2017 | viewed 18,473 times

  Usually when CFTC data shows a big speculative position, it is easy to spot the corresponding mood amongst traders. For example, take the current situation…

• Iran Signs Oil For Goods Deal With Russia: Breaks Free Of Petrodollar

  Published 29 May 2017 | viewed 29,751 times

  Iran signed an agreement with Russia under which it has broken free from the petrodollar, and will "sell", or rather barter crude oil to Russia…

• Does OPEC Have An Exit Strategy?

  Published 28 May 2017 | viewed 10,586 times

  Oil bulls were unhappy with yesterday's OPEC announcement, which disappointed by adding nothing to the 9 month supply cut extension announcement which had already been…

• Is China’s Oil Demand Growth About To Plummet?

  Published 24 May 2017 | viewed 23,616 times

  When OPEC sits down on Thursday, keeping the price of Brent above $50 (to avoid a budget catastrophe and social upheaval in Saudi Arabia) and…

• OPEC Monitoring Committee Proposes Nine-Month Extension

  Published 24 May 2017 | viewed 10,604 times

  In the end, the OPEC Vienna meeting - which technically won't conclude until tomorrow - was anticlimatic, with the recommendation by Joint OPEC-Non-OPEC Ministerial Monitoring Committee…

• Goldman’s Two Conditions For A Successful OPEC Deal

  Published 16 May 2017 | viewed 12,090 times

  Goldman, which has been pushing for higher oil prices with seemingly daily bullish research reports for the past month, underwrote the last Saudi Arabian bond…

• Corruption, Terrorism, And Mafia: The Global Black Market For Oil

  Published 12 May 2017 | viewed 23,978 times

  The value of the crude oil production alone is worth a staggering $1.7 trillion each year. Add downstream fuels and other services to that, and…

• Does This Oil Price Rally Have Legs?

  Published 12 May 2017 | viewed 19,407 times

  With oil prices spiking nearly 10 percent from last Friday's sudden, capitulation "flash crash" which was perhaps driven by Pierre Andurand liquidating his entire long…

• World’s Largest Oil Trader Warns OPEC: Beware Of Weak Demand

  Published 10 May 2017 | viewed 17,875 times

  When it comes to the oil market, the narrative over the past year, ever since OPEC's first aborted its meeting last April, has been just…

• Four Charts That Explain OPEC’s Fall From Power

  Published 08 May 2017 | viewed 13,275 times

  Undeterred by earlier failures to jawbone the price of oil higher, a new barrage of headlines hit courtesy of Reuters reiterating more of the same,…

• The Inconvenient Truth About Electric Vehicles

  Published 03 May 2017 | viewed 135,800 times

  An electric automobile will convert 5-10 percent of the energy in natural gas into motion. A normal vehicle will convert 20-30 percent of the energy…

• ‘’OPEC Has Failed’’

  Published 01 May 2017 | viewed 33,832 times

  Two months ago we first suggested that OPEC may be fabricating data about its production cuts - and certainly overstating the "success" of the Vienna…

• Is The Market Running Out Of Patience With OPEC?

  Published 27 April 2017 | viewed 15,892 times

  Just as we warned yesterday following the EIA inventory and production data release, the exuberance over the crude draw was misplaced (due to the surge…

• Aramco Insiders Suggest The Company May Not Be Worth $2 Trillion

  Published 25 April 2017 | viewed 15,114 times

  As Saudi Arabia's deputy crown prince, Mohammad bin Salman Al Saud, pushes his nation's Vision 2030 economic overhaul and crows of the $2 trillion Saudi…

• The EV Marketplace Heats Up As “Tesla Killers” Are Rolled Out

  Published 20 April 2017 | viewed 37,884 times

  The much anticipated Tesla Model 3 has yet to be released and already a groundswell of electric car competition is forming to challenge Elon Musk's…

• Is War Brewing In The South China Sea?

  Published 01 April 2017 | viewed 27,187 times

  Adding fuel to an already highly combustible situation in Southeast Asia, Reuters reported Tuesday that China has “largely completed major construction of military infrastructure on…

• Is Elon Musk’s Model 3 Production Plan Too Ambitious?

  Published 29 March 2017 | viewed 13,640 times

  Elon Musk, Silicon Valley's automotive visionary, loves to wow the world with grandiose visions that serve primarily to reinforce his position at the top of…

• How OPEC Shot Itself In The Foot

  Published 22 March 2017 | viewed 11,559 times

  At the start of March, we showed a fascinating chart from Rystad Energy, demonstrating how dramatic the impact of technological efficiency on collapsing U.S. shale…