13 декабря 2017 Clarity and crisis The spike in UK gas prices yesterday demonstrated that the NBP remains a well-functioning hub, while Italy’s PSV struggled to deal with a halt to Tag pipeline flows following an explosion at Austria’s Baumgarten compressor station.
08 декабря 2017 Ukraine’s dead souls Ukraine’s colourful politics drew the attention of the European media again this week.
30 ноября 2017 Northwest Europe holds stocks back European near-curve prices rallied in November despite early indications that there will be more gas left in storage at the end of the winter than in most recent years.
28 ноября 2017 Opec losing the Latin beat Don’t be surprised to find an idle Spanish language interpreter or two along Vienna’s Helferstorferstrasse this week, as Latin America’s sole Opec members are preoccupied with their rocky home fronts.
20 ноября 2017 A wasted opportunity Limited flexibility in the auction schedule for buying pipeline capacity has resulted in an opportunity to profit from the NBP’s premium this winter being lost.
20 ноября 2017 Oil to petchems — flavour of the month You’re an oil refinery manager, somewhere in Europe. You can sell diesel for $570/t, or ethylene for $1,120/t.
17 ноября 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 ноября 2017 Saudi Arabia in uncharted waters Saudi economic officials have issued a slew of statements aimed at reassuring investors — particularly from abroad
03 ноября 2017 Blessing in disguise, or the business of geopolitics “One man’s loss is another man’s gain,” states the aphorism.
02 ноября 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 октября 2017 Narrative twist The narrative surrounding market rebalancing moves faster than the actual process of market rebalancing.
09 октября 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 октября 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 октября 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 октября 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.
