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17 November 2017

Can EU car sales motor on while the UK skids to a halt?

The auto industry’s importance to the polypropylene (PP) market is growing all the time in Europe.

06 November 2017

Saudi Arabia in uncharted waters

Saudi economic officials have issued a slew of statements aimed at reassuring investors — particularly from abroad

03 November 2017

Blessing in disguise, or the business of geopolitics

“One man’s loss is another man’s gain,” states the aphorism.

02 November 2017

Is complacency priced in?

There is a very strong possibility that tomorrow the basket price of Opec crude will start with a six for the first time since late June 2015. Ice Brent front-month futures have been sixed-up for a few days now.

10 October 2017

Narrative twist

The narrative surrounding market rebalancing moves faster than the actual process of market rebalancing.

09 October 2017

LNG’s reload revival

An increase in the seasonality of LNG demand in northeast Asia has raised the value of using European terminals as storage for winter reloads.

05 October 2017

November’s Vienna meet may be Opec, non-Opec lite

The November Opec and non-Opec gathering in Vienna looks set for a downgrade.

03 October 2017

The orphans of Odebrecht

The first night in jail was probably not too uncomfortable for Ecuador’s once-powerful vice president Jorge Glas.

02 October 2017

Does big data mean big profits for refiners?

At a recent refining conference in Brussels, Italian refiner Saras’ managing director, Dario Scaffardi, extolled the virtues of big data and digitisation to a packed auditorium.

27 September 2017

Saudi women permitted to drive — what does it mean?

Saudi Arabian King Salman bin Abdel-Aziz’s decree to allow women to hold driving licences from June 2018 has come as something of a surprise. No leaks, trial balloons or statements were issued to signal that the decision was imminent.

22 September 2017

The five stages of LNG grief

This is a story about how LNG producers went through the five stages of grief, before accepting the market will be oversupplied and adjusting their trading strategies accordingly.

15 September 2017

Energy business is still at blockchain 0.0

Blockchain technology may be approaching the business mainstream as its most well-known application – cryptocurrency — made the July cover of Forbes magazine, but the application is still closer to the back page for the oil and gas sector.

08 September 2017

Taper tantrums

The European Central Bank has signalled the end is nigh for its role as the stimulator of last resort. Seven years into ECB president Mario Draghi’s “whatever it takes” (more on that phrase later), and the eurozone economy is nearly deemed ready to stand unaided.test

06 September 2017

Gatecrashers

Shell chief executive Ben van Beurden and his BP counterpart, Bob Dudley, were the star guests at the Offshore Europe conference in Aberdeen yesterday. To the surprise of no one, they used their keynote addresses in the spiritual home of the UK's oil and gas industry to

11 August 2017

Italy should let the market loose

European energy traders association Efet has called for more flexible Italian gas storage rules, and September could be a good time to test this idea.

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