Buyers in the world’s biggest oil market are finding they can almost always get what they want, at a time when they weren’t expected to get what they need.   Read Article  +

WTI has rallied more than 11 percent over the past month, raising hopes from oil bulls that maybe, just maybe, the price gains are here to stay. Oil had dipped in February and March on record high levels of oil sitting in U.S. storage, but by Apri...  +

Exotically painted, smoke-belching jeepneys are as iconic to Manila as the cable cars of San Francisco, the gondolas on Venice’s canals and the black cabs in London.   Read Article  +

OPEC appears to be slowly winning the battle against a global overhang of crude and oil products as inventories in onshore and floating storage decline.   Read Article  +

Iran, whose determination to produce crude in record quantities is widely viewed as one of the biggest threats to the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) bid to lower production and rebalance the market, is now reportedly stru...  +

OPEC isn’t the only decades-old energy hegemony being turned on its head by U.S. shale.   Read Article  +

Saudi Arabia lost its spot as the biggest supplier of crude oil to China and India in 2016 as stiff price competition from Russia and Iraq cut into its market share.   Read Article  +

The popular claim that a surge in electric cars will hasten the arrival of peak oil demand is undermined by the data.   Read Article  +

Battery technology is the key factor that will prevent electric cars reducing on global petrol demand in the next two decades.   Read Article  +

Saudi Arabia has set a near-impossible target to end the current round of OPEC oil-production cuts, indicating that a policy rollover into the second half of the year is a near certainty.   Read Article  +