Archives for November 2017

OPEC’s Monthly Oil Market Report is out: ”World oil demand growth is expected to rise by 1.53 mb/d in 2017 after an upward adjustment of 74 tb/d to

The EIA’s Today in Energy has some interesting charts on emissions from coal use... ”Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions associated with coal

Here is the weekly look at crude oil, gasoline and distillate stocks compared to 5 year highs and lows:

Here is recent history from the EIA’s This Week in Petroleum: “The WTI price spread with Brent reflects the transportation costs associated

Lucia Kassai, Bloomberg, reminds us that Venezuela’s oil industry is in decline: “The number of active oil rigs in Venezuela is heading for a

Implied volatility for December WTI crude oil options (currently the front month) jumped from 21% on Friday to 27.9% on Monday.... The most active

The article from FT Alphaville is about China’s growth relative to world growth, but here is one takeaway: ” And we do see world petroleum

The excellent John Kemp summarizes hedge funds’ positions in energy markets here: ”Hedge funds and other money managers had amassed a net bullish