Prețurile țițeiului au fost pe cale să înregistreze o creștere săptămânală bruscă, Brent fiind pe drumul cel bun pentru câștiguri de aproximativ 6 USD pe baril, în timp ce WTI a înregistrat o creștere mult mai modestă, de la aproximativ 99 USD pe baril luni la peste 100 USD astăzi. În momentul redactării, țițeiul Brent se tranzacționa la 114,00 USD pe baril, iar West Texas Intermediate se schimba la 100,40 USD pe baril, deoarece ostilitățile din Orientul Mijlociu rămân pe prima pagină pentru comercianții de petrol. Accentul pare să fie însă pe atacurile Houthi asupra infrastructurii saudite, i
În timpul primelor trei luni de război al SUA și Israelului cu Iranul, starea de spirit dominantă pe piețele petroliere a fost că conflictul se va încheia în orice moment. Scurta încetare a focului din iunie a întărit acel optimism, așa că a fost nevoie de ceva mai mult timp pentru a face față faptelor: războiul nu se va încheia prea curând. S-ar putea chiar să se prelungească până anul viitor — iar acest lucru înseamnă prețuri mai mari pentru mai mult timp. Contractul futures ICE Brent pentru ianuarie 2027 se tranzacționează la 102,59 dolari pe baril. Contractul pentru iunie 2027 este doar pu
Crude oil prices, which dipped on Tuesday, reversed their direction, with Brent ticking above $100 again earlier today following reports of fresh Houthi attacks on Saudi energy infrastructure. At the time of writing, Brent crude was trading at $101.49 per barrel and West Texas Intermediate was changing hands for $90.14 per barrel, despite a statement from Saudi Arabia’s energy minister, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, who said Tuesday the kingdom’s oil flows via the Rast-West pipeline had rebounded to 5.8 million barrels daily. The statement…
Iranian oil is disappearing from the market just as its biggest buyer returns for more. China’s recovering crude demand is colliding with the loss of a supplier that sustained its independent refiners through the crisis, forcing them to compete for increasingly expensive alternatives. The consequences reach beyond China: every replacement barrel tightens supplies for other buyers, while Tehran faces a growing incentive to disrupt the Strait of Hormuz, which is now carrying an unexpectedly strong 13 million barrels a day (just 5 million below…
Prețurile petrolului au scăzut marți, anulând câștigurile recente, în timp ce investitorii au evaluat semnele redresării exporturilor producătorilor din Orientul Mijlociu în raport cu incertitudinea privind soarta războiului din Iran. Țițeiul Brent cu livrare în noiembrie a scăzut cu 1,5%, tranzacționându-se la 103,72 dolari pe baril la ora 13:10 ET, în timp ce țițeiul WTI cu livrare în octombrie a scăzut cu 2,2%, fiind cotat la 90,62 dolari pe baril. Exporturile de țiței din regiune au urcat la 15,5 milioane de barili pe zi în septembrie, depășind 80% din nivelurile de dinaintea războiului și
The Chinese market remains the largest one in terms of seaborne crude oil imports, after the first eight months of 2026. In its latest weekly report, shipbroker Banchero Costa said that “after a marginal decline in 2024, when global crude oil loadings decreased by -0.2% y-o-y, things picked up in 2025, with full-year volumes increasing ...
For the first four months of the war between the United States and Israel and Iran, oil traders remained largely bearish. The overwhelming expectation was that the war would end soon—even as July rolled around—and oil flows out of Hormuz would recover. Instead, the world is slipping into a fuel shortage, and traders have gone bullish. They are especially bullish on fuels in the United States, it seems. The world’s biggest crude oil consumer and the biggest exporter of crude and fuels has not managed to avoid a supply squeeze at…
Washington’s takeover of more than a fifth of Venezuela’s oil reserves in a deal officially signed by U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright on 2 September was as unexpected as it was dramatic, with President Donald Trump’s comment a few days earlier that it is “the biggest oil deal in world history” looking justified from several perspectives. From a pure volume standpoint, the deal covers 65 billion barrels of proven crude oil reserves (out of Venezuela’s total 303 billion barrels) across 17 fields. To put that…
The tanker market could experience an increase of flows from West to East in the coming years, following the 65 billion barrel deal between the US and Venezuela. In its latest weekly report, shipbroker Gibson said that “last Friday, President Trump announced that the US had reached an agreement to control 65 billion barrels of ...
Greek owner Sea Pioneer Shipping has emerged as the company behind SK Oceanplant’s recently announced series of six firm plus two optional aframax tankers. Market sources have identified the Vasilis Bacolitsas-led owner as the previously unnamed Greek customer behind six 115,000 dwt crude carriers at the South Korean yard, with two further options attached. SK …
China’s oil consumption fell 9% year over year in the second quarter as expensive crude accelerated the use of electric cars, trucks, rail and industrial equipment. The decline helped cut China’s carbon dioxide emissions by 1% during the quarter, according to an analysis by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air. It was the first quarterly emissions decline in China driven primarily by lower oil consumption. Power-sector emissions rose 3% during the same period as coal-fired generation increased. Electric vehicles displaced…
Crude oil is “very quietly” moving through the Strait of Hormuz at a premium of about $10/b, but products are not, leading to a “very strange” market dynamic with bearish crude and bullish fuel, TotalEnergies CEO Patrick Pouyanne said Aug. 24, while restating the company’s commitment to the Middle East. Speaking at the ONS oil ...
A Saudi-owned VLCC has been struck off Yanbu in the northern Red Sea, extending the Houthi campaign against Saudi shipping to one of the kingdom’s most important alternative crude export routes. The 320,926 dwt Amzan was hit around 63 nautical miles west of Yanbu on August 24. UK Maritime Trade Operations said an unknown projectile …
Asian refiners are on course to nearly double their purchases of U.S. crude for September from a month earlier, a move that stands to squeeze domestic fuel makers at a time when Americans are already facing record high pump prices.
Alkagesta a înregistrat rezultate record în prima jumătate a anului 2026, cu venituri de 3,5 miliarde USD și volume estimate pentru întregul an de peste 10 milioane de tone, susținute de noi linii de produse, capacități de stocare extinse și o rețea internațională mai vastă.
U.S. sanctions pressure on Iran intensifies, but Pakistani mediation hopes push Brent back to $89. US Blockade Leaves Iran’s Oil Trade on Borrowed Time - The announcement of the Trump administration’s ‘Economic D-Day’ sanctions on Iran coincides with an overall slump in Tehran’s crude exports, choked off by the US Navy’s maritime blockade in the Gulf of Oman. - Iran’s August crude exports have so far been minimal compared to the 2025 average of 1.7 million b/d, averaging only slightly around 0.3 million…
An in-depth evaluation study based on reference data from a Suezmax crude oil tanker has demonstrated the benefits of using Thordon Bearings’ innovative T-BOSS® shaftline solution instead of a conventional oil...
Seven crude carriers were moored at Iraq’s Persian Gulf export facilities on August 24—a sharp increase from recent weeks. The carriers had a combined carrying capacity of roughly 13 million barrels, according to satellite imagery analyzed by Bloomberg. TankerTrackers.com separately said it counted and identified 13 million barrels loading Monday at Iraq’s Al Basrah Oil Terminal. That is a dramatic departure from the past several weeks, when satellite passes typically showed just one or two tankers at Iraq’s offshore export…
U.S. refineries have been running at full speed for months to make up for lost fuel supply from the Middle East. Fuel exports from the United States have been breaking records. This may be about to change, and not because of the war. It is oil sands maintenance season in Canada. In September, Canadian crude oil production may drop by 300,000 barrels daily due to maintenance activities in the oil sands, Rystad Energy said this week, as quoted by Bloomberg. Usually, whenever such a seasonal disruption occurs, it gets offset with crude from storage.…
An in-depth evaluation study based on reference data from a Suezmax crude oil tanker has demonstrated the benefits of using Thordon Bearings’ innovative T-BOSS® shaftline solution instead of a conventional oil lubricated sterntube system. The comprehensive study assessed the CAPEX for a sterntubeless T-BOSS® (Thordon – Blue Ocean Stern Space) system installed on a 274m ...
The Iranian crude that reached Asia is being taken. The crude that has not reached it is standing at the strait and behind it, and there is nearly twice as much of that. AXSMarine · Data to 15 August 2026 · All volumes million barrels Iranian crude sitting in Asian waters peaked at 44.4 million ...
Key takeaways • The renewed US blockade is making the status quo progressively more expensive for Tehran. Pressure now extends from crude and petrochemical export revenues to production shut-ins, imports, aviation, gasoline balances, and ultimately government subsidies. Politically, the status quo also increasingly becomes hard to manage. • Tehran is confronted with a trilemma: endure, ...
Beyond looking out the windshield and seeing retail diesel prices that once again are rising, here are some key comparisons that a consumer dealing with those higher numbers should know. On February 27, the last day before military action began between Iran on one side and the U.S. and Israel on the other, the price of international crude benchmark Brent settled at $72.48/barrel on the CME commodity exchange. On the same day, ultra low sulfur diesel (ULSD) settled at $2.596/gallon. On Wednesday, Brent settled at $91.62/b. ULSD settled at $4.4523/g. window.googletag = window.googletag || {cmd:
🚢 Oil is up 100% in 2026 but this tiny tanker ETF, called BWET, has surged a staggering 863% ⚓ BWET tracks crude oil shipping rates, which have exploded as the US-Iran war disrupts the Strait of Hormuz Hormaz Fatakia digs in deeper #BWET #TankerETF # LinkedIn
Vitol, the 'crude oil trading giant,' suffers heavy losses amid the Iran conflict as a star derivatives trader of Chinese descent incurs massive losses from leveraged positions. 富途牛牛
