As Big Oil executives gathered this week and discussed the biggest-ever disruption to global energy supplies due to the war in Iran, there was one impact they did not address publicly: the multibillion-dollar windfall they will make because of soaring prices for the energy they sell. Global benchmark Brent crude has so far averaged around US$97 (RM388.78) per barrel in March, up 33% […]
Angola is set to raise $2.5 billion through the sale of dollar-denominated bonds, betting that higher oil prices driven by the Iran–Israel conflict will attract strong investor demand. Africa’s third-largest oil producer is offering $1.5 billion in seven-year bonds at a yield of 9.375% and $1 billion in 11-year bonds at 9.875%, according to a […]
Oil prices fell sharply in early asian trade on Wednesday, with both major benchmarks dropping more than 5% as traders reacted to signs of potential de-escalation in the Middle East conflict as well as a crude inventory build in the U.S. At the time of writing, WTI crude was trading at $87.51, down 5.24%, while Brent crude had fallen […]
Europe could experience energy shortages before the end of April, the chief executive of Shell has warned. Jet fuel supply has already tightened, and a diesel squeeze could be next, with gasoline supply tightening as well, as the continent nears peak fuel demand season in the summer, Wael Sawan said. “South Asia was first to […]
QatarEnergy has declared force majeure on some of its long-term liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply contracts, including for customers in Italy, Belgium, South Korea and China. The move on Tuesday comes amid production and supply disruptions caused by the United States-Israeli war on Iran. Force majeure is a clause in contracts that allows a party to be […]
Oil prices dropped more than 13 percent on Monday after US President Donald Trump said he will order the military to postpone any strikes against Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure for five days. Trump’s move followed a threat by Iran to attack Israel’s power plants and those supplying US bases across the Gulf region […]
Brent crude is seen averaging $85 per barrel this year, and West Texas Intermediate could see an average price of $79, Goldman Sachs commodity analysts said in a note released Sunday. They added that the supply loss from the crisis is going to peak at 17 million barrels daily. The price update is from an […]
Saudi Arabia is slashing its crude oil exports to Asia in April, for a second month in a row, as the de facto closed Strait of Hormuz is stranding most of the supply from the world’s top crude exporter. Saudi oil giant Aramco has notified customers of term supply in Asia that they would receive […]
According to report, Tesla is in talks to purchase equipment worth about $2.9 billion from Chinese firms to build large-scale solar manufacturing capacity in the United States, as CEO Elon Musk targets up to 100 gigawatts of solar production. The development has already lifted shares of several Chinese solar companies, signalling renewed global demand for […]
Countries may tap into America’s booming liquefied natural gas exports as Middle Eastern suppliers shutter. But renewables are a safer bet in the long run. The U.S. is the world’s largest exporter of liquefied natural gas — and the war in the Middle East is about to bring massive profits to its gas producers. As the war […]