OPEC members and particularly the Saudi Arabians are the marginal global oil price setters due to their creation and use of spare production...

As OPEC members meet today Tuesday, December 22, in Angola, it is worth taking stock of why OPEC has no choice but to yet again refrain from...

At this time of year it may be wise to dwell briefly on how consumer products are transported.  Globalization runs on container shipping an...

Another research report released today , this time by JPMorgan, showing that oil market price movements are driven by fundamentals and not s...

Over the past day or so Amazon in the US (UK appears to be fine) has had some inventory outages for Oil 101. As an alternative you can orde...

Recently I have been dwelling on hard data research of the 1970s and early 1980s to gain insight into the oil situation we face today (see O...

An interesting story from The Economist describing how airlines could save jet fuel by flyng in formation.

Edward Morse outlines a useful " annotated Foreign Affairs syllabus on oil " in the latest issue of Foreign Affairs.

Long before gasoline and diesel came into widespread use, kerosene for lighting was the initial product which drove oil demand from 1859 unt...

Year end is the season given to updates of long-range oil supply and demand forecasts, particularly from the OECD's International Energy...