Oil prices were steady on Friday but on track for a fifth straight week of gains. This is with investors optimistic healthy demand and supply cuts will keep prices buoyant. Risk appetite in wider financial markets has been fuelled by growing expectations. The expectation is that central banks are nearing the end of policy tightening […]
Oil prices have been slowly but surely edging higher in July as rising optimism around Chinese demand combines with supply concerns to boost bullish sentiment. Oil bulls are optimistic now? Chinese authorities have reformed natural gas pricing in the country, linking retail residential gas prices to distributors’ purchasing costs to avoid squeezing the margin of […]
Experts’ oil price expectations are that it could rise to $100 per barrel by the fourth quarter. The price per barrel currently sits at $74. The demand for oil is high right now and more production is needed to meet it. This is according to Judy Stark, the president of Panhandle Producers and Royalty Owners […]
Oil prices gain on Tuesday as investors weighed a possible tightening of U.S. crude supplies against weaker-than-expected Chinese economic growth. Both benchmark contracts had fallen more than 1.5% on Monday following lackluster economic data from China, the world’s largest oil importer, as well as the partial restart of some Libyan oilfields. Brent crude was up […]
As oil and gas production companies look for efficient and cost-effective methods of increasing their output. With that, the well-intervention market is set to get a healthy boost. Spending on interventions is a way to extract additional resources from an existing well. This is instead of drilling a new one. The projection is for it […]
The Bureau of Land Management’s first oil and gas lease sale in over a year netted roughly $14.7 million in Wyoming — about $1.8 million more than last year’s sale. Wyoming will receive 48% — roughly $7 million — of that revenue. While Gov. Mark Gordon applauded the lease sale in a Monday statement, he […]
Oil and gas companies are reinvesting record profits from the fossil fuel price surge driven by the Ukraine war to intensify the hunt for new deposits despite repeated calls by the United Nations to phase out hydrocarbons to avoid a climate crisis. What will these oil giants do? Data and industry executives found the exploration […]
Global oil demand will rise to 110 million barrels a day in about 20 years, pushing the world’s energy demand up by 23%, said OPEC on Monday. ″Oil is irreplaceable for the foreseeable future,” Secretary-General Haitham Al Ghais of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries said while addressing the inaugural Energy Asia conference held […]
Crude oil prices began trade with a gain today as supply worries returned to the table amid the rebellion news from Russia and expectations of demand growth during peak driving season in the United States. In midday trade in Asia Brent crude was moving toward $75 per barrel with West Texas Intermediate climbing above $70 per barrel. News about […]
In the months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine any hint of bad news sent energy prices into the stratosphere. When a fire forced an American gas plant to close, strikes clogged French oil terminals, Russia demanded Europe pay for fuel in roubles or the weather looked grimmer than usual, markets went wild. Since January, however, […]
