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Two Opposite Oil Emergencies Are Building at Once — a Crunch for the West and a Glut for Iran
Iran 30 May
Nigeria Wants a Bigger OPEC Quota, a Seat at the IEA, and 2.5 Million Barrels a Day It Can't Yet Reliably Pump
OPEC 30 May
Australia Buys 600,000 Barrels of Jet Fuel From China After a Refinery Fire Exposes Its Import Dependence
Australia 30 May
The Mystery of the Missing Spike: Oil Has Lost 14% of Global Output and Still Hasn't Topped 2022
Brent 30 May
The Warning Isn't $150 Oil — It's That the Move Won't Be Gradual
Brent 30 May
The Iran Shock Is Rewiring Global Crude Flows — Asia Is Buying the Atlantic and China's Teapots Are Taking Tehran's B...
Iran 30 May
Data-Center Investment Just Overtook Oil Supply — and That's Why Fossil Fuels Aren't Going Away
Brent 30 May
Trans Mountain Keeps Adding Capacity Toward 1.2m Barrels a Day — Canada's Oil Sands Are Expanding Despite the Headwinds
Trans Mountain 30 May
Iran's Uranium Stockpile Is the Card That Will Decide the Oil Premium
Iran 30 May
Goldman Sees a 2.3 Billion-Pound Uranium Deficit by 2045 — and SMRs Just Made It Worse
Brent 30 May
The World's Largest Electric Ship Burns No Oil — and an Oil War Has Left It Idle in Hobart
Brent 30 May
Opinion — The Three Numbers That Argue Against Oil Staying Above $100 for Years
30 May
While the Market Watches OPEC, the Real Energy Constraint Is the Wires
OPEC 30 May
OPEC+ Is Adding Barrels Into a Capped Curve, and That Tells You What It Expects
OPEC+ 30 May
Data Centre Investment Hits $580 Billion and Overtakes Oil Supply Spending for the First Time
Brent 29 May
Oil-Driven Inflation Hits 3.3% and Traps the Fed Between Rate Cuts and Price Stability
Brent 29 May
IEA Forecasts $3.4 Trillion Energy Investment Boom as Crude Oil Capex Declines for Third Consecutive Year
IEA 28 May
Tokyo's Benchmark Switch and Three Other Signals the Crude Market Is Mispricing
Brent 28 May
Global Inventory Draws Hit 8.7 Million Barrels Daily as Aluminum and Oil Face Prolonged Supply Outages
Brent 28 May
The IEA's 400 Million Barrel Buffer and Two Other Things the Oil Market Is Underpricing
IEA 28 May
Oil at $100 Adds 0.3 Percentage Points to Global Inflation as War Premium Becomes Structural
Brent 28 May
Why the Oil-Inflation Link May Not Work the Way Markets Expect in H2
Brent 28 May
The Distillate Deficit Nobody Is Pricing In
Brent 28 May
Texas Dominates 2026-27 Gas Pipeline Buildout as Permian Output Set to Grow 10%
Brent 27 May
Russia's Refinery Throughput Drops to 4.69M Bpd as $13B Drone Damage Forces Export Ban
Russia 27 May
Gulf Oil Production Will Take 3-6 Months to Return Even After a Deal
Brent 27 May
German 11 GW Gas Buildout Joins $60B US Upstream M&A Wave
Germany 27 May
Brent Eyes $115 Breakout as Trump's Clock Ticking Warning Fuels 84-Point Heat Score
Brent 27 May
Crude Rallies 3% on Stalled Iran Talks After Plunging 14% on Peace Hopes Days Earlier
Iran 27 May
WTI Gains 4.6% on the Week While Oil Benchmarks Drop 4% — the Divergence Explained
WTI 27 May
Record SPR Drawdowns and 7.6 Billion Barrel Stockpile Floor Say the Crisis Is Not Over
US Strategic Petroleum Reserve 27 May
The Hormuz Traffic That Wasn't and the SPR That's Running Dry
Strait of Hormuz 27 May
Oil Shortage Scenario Moves From Model to Reality as Hormuz Losses Hit 782 Million Barrels
Strait of Hormuz 27 May
Brent Swings $25 in a Week as US Strikes and Ceasefire Whipsaw Oil
Brent 27 May
The $100 Oil Consensus Has a Demand Destruction Problem Nobody Wants to Price
Brent 27 May
Venezuela Set to Become India's Third-Largest Oil Supplier as Hormuz Disruption Reshapes Flows
Strait of Hormuz 27 May
Oil Swings 6% on a Trump Post as Citi Targets $120 and the IEA Keeps 80% of Its Reserves in Reserve
IEA 26 May
Shell Posts $7 Billion Quarter but Big Oil's 14% Returns Trail the S&P 500 by 34 Points
Shell 26 May
BP Doubles Q1 Profit to £2.7 Billion While Divesting 11.5 GW of Offshore Wind
BP 26 May
Spot Uranium Pulls Back to $86 but Goldman Sees 17% Demand Upside From SMR Buildout
Brent 26 May