By Paul Sankey
Published on June 4, 2024 at 9:56 AM
OPEC sets down a can, takes four steps back, runs up, and hoofs it towards 2025. We are looking for a huge summer for oil demand, given in May we had a major Asian heatwave, as part of a pattern whereby, if you think it is hot in Midland, Texas, spare a thought for Dhaka, Bangladesh. But our year-end 2023 video “When does Saudi have to flush the oil market?” garnered the most views of …
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By Paul Sankey
Published on June 2, 2024 at 1:55 PM
Summer Greetings, Mexico and India elections culminate today in one of the busiest democratic years in history – the greatest in terms of number of voters. Incredible positive really. Violence in emerging markets/ Mexico and the limits on Indian growth because of democracy are two mega-themes. People want to live in Fascist States? Former case, we are expecting a major global leader assassination or deposal; we can only speculate on who and what impact in …
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By Paul Sankey
Published on May 30, 2024 at 10:38 AM
Focus OPEC for the next two Happy Hours. At 4pm today, this evening a quick check-in with Kathleen Kelley “OPEC Whisperer” into this weekend’s meeting. It’s not long since we did a full session with Kathleen, so this evening is a quick tyre-kick. Next week, going into much more depth on oil markets, we have barrel counting legend Mr Jan Stuart, energy market economist, and my first office-mate at my first post-college career job: we …
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