The Players Have Changed
US oil production is rapidly growing and has reached 11.2 million barrels per day in Nov 2018, is expected to reach 12.05 m/bpd next April and 12.29 m/bpd by year end 2019. The pipelines bottleneck Continue reading “The Oil Game Has Changed”
Daily Basket of News Commentary – Sep 26, 2018
Iran Oil Exports?
India might continue buying Iranian oil via a Rupee payment scheme. India consumes 4.7 Million bpd (approx. 5% of world oil production) and is expected to reach 10 million bpd in 2040. It is difficult to see India putting its economy in jeopardy and taking sides in an unrelated problem i.e. the US/Iran quarrel – especially since the Iranian oil is cheaper than the competition. Continue reading “Daily Basket of News Commentary – Sep 26, 2018”
COMMENTS: The many years of external and internal conflict in Iraq has resulted in impoverishment of the masses. Now, Basrah, the center of southern oil production is in turmoil as riots are spreading demanding jobs in the oil producing sector. So far one demonstrator has been shot by Continue reading “Iraq Demonstrations Impact Oil Production”
If you wish to buy a television set, and your country doesn’t manufacture TV’s, you need to first find the currency of the manufacturing country. The TV manufacturer wants to be paid in his currency with which he incurred his production costs, and his profit will be spent on his living expenses. The only way you can get his currency is if Continue reading “The Gulf Oil Economies Dilemma”
It Seems the oil producing countries are beginning to sweat. It finally dawned upon them that their oil revenues are in trouble, and turbulent, if not perilous, financial times are ahead. Continue reading “Selling the Family Heirlooms?”
DAILY BASKET – NEWS COMMENTARY
UAE Increases Oil Production Cut Above Its Quota
MARSAL COMMENTS: UAE will cut oil production between 200,000 and 280,000 barrels per day in March and April. This is above its OPEC Continue reading “UAE Increases Oil Production Cut Above Its Quota”
OIL PRICE – WHERETO?
OPEC announced on Nov 30, 2016 an agreement to cut its total oil production by 1.2 Million barrels per day to bring it to 32.5 mill b/d, as off Jan 2017. Overnight, Brent oil price spiked by 9% to around US$ 52. The next step is for OPEC to obtain and extra reduction of 600,000 b/d from Non-OPEC producers. Continue reading “OIL PRICE – WHERETO?”
