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Winter is coming, prompting Europe to shore up Energy Supplies

EXPERT Q&A — Europeans are already feeling the cold, even as near-full energy storage capacity and mild weather have worked to avert a full-blown [...] More

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An Energy Market Check In

An Energy Market Check In

ENERGY — 2020 has taken a toll on the world’s energy market, but just how bad is it? Experts say COVID-19, economic shutdowns and a disastrous oil [...] More

Where are Ripples from the Oil War Heading?

Where are Ripples from the Oil War Heading?

Global markets responded on Monday to fears of a second-wave of coronavirus infections and one of the industries feeling the pressure is the gas and [...] More

Saudi Missteps Destabilize Global Oil Market

Bottom Line Up FrontThe April agreement among major oil producers to reduce global oil production has failed to stabilize world oil prices.Market [...] More

Oil Price War Clouds COVID-19 Response

Bottom Line Up FrontA Saudi effort to regain dominance over world oil production is weakening regional economic powers at a time of crisis over the [...] More

The Impact of Harder-Hitting Sanctions on Iran

The Impact of Harder-Hitting Sanctions on Iran

The U.S. moved this week to apply even more pressure on Iran to end its involvement in illicit activities around the world by announcing that the [...] More

Qatar Exits OPEC

Bottom Line Up FrontQatar’s withdrawal from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is strongly correlated to Doha’s ongoing rift [...] More

Resetting the Crucial U.S.-Saudi Relationship

President Donald Trump is expected to receive a full report on the killing of Washington Post Journalist Jamal Khashoggi on Tuesday. The President [...] More

Mapping Out OPEC's Latest Moves

Mapping Out OPEC's Latest Moves

The OPEC conference in Vienna ended on June 22 with a Saudi-engineered defeat of Iran’s efforts to oppose any production hike. Masked in vague [...] More

OPEC Is Back in the Driver's Seat — For Now

Saudi Arabia’s decision at the informal gathering of OPEC countries in Algeria on September 28th to reverse course and agree to participate in a [...] More

The Importance of OPEC's September Agreement

OPEC members have finally reached an agreement to curb the global oil supply by cutting their overall production from 33.75 million barrels per day [...] More

Corralling the Cartel: OPEC and Oil Prices

Corralling the Cartel: OPEC and Oil Prices

Since oil prices plummeted in the last quarter of 2014, oil-producing countries have struggled to adapt to the new low-price environment. From [...] More

Saudi Arabia and Iran Trade Politics for Oil

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) came to a surprise agreement at informal talks this September to reduce global oil [...] More