According to WPB, energy flows through the Strait of Hormuz appear to be improving, but the picture is still far from clear. The head of U.S. Central...
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According to WPB, OPEC crude oil production fell by 640,000 barrels per day in August, showing how Middle East disruptions effectively erased a plann...
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According to WPB, the global physical oil market remains substantially tighter than headline futures prices suggest, with Middle East crude exports s...
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According to WPB, OPEC+ has formally halted further production increases for October, leaving required output unchanged as disruptions to Middle East...
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According to WPB, a tightening global fuel-oil market is creating a new source of cost pressure for bitumen shipping as refinery disruptions, reduced...
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According to WPB, Iranian crude loadings have fallen to approximately 260,000 barrels per day in the current September period, providing one of the c...
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According to WPB, Iran’s president has said the country’s exports and imports have fallen by nearly 35% under the combined pressure of U.S. sanct...
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According to WPB, the global oil market has entered a more dangerous phase in which disruption is no longer concentrated around a single producer, re...
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According to WPB, Asia’s refined-fuel shortage is becoming increasingly visible in Southeast Asia, with imports of light and middle distillates fal...
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According to WPB, Iraq has moved its search for alternatives to the Strait of Hormuz from emergency planning toward a defined commercial mechanism. O...
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According to WPB, the most important constraint in today’s oil market may no longer be the availability of crude alone. The pressure is increasingl...
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According to WPB, Iraq’s oil minister said on August 8 that the country’s crude exports have fallen by 75% from prewar levels as restrictions at ...
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According to WPB, the risk of a new and potentially powerful layer of U.S. pressure on Russian energy trade has moved into a much more serious legisl...
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According to WPB, Iran’s main crude-export terminal has entered one of its longest periods of inactivity since the current regional conflict began....
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According to WPB, China’s decision to temporarily authorize about 2.7 million metric tons of refined-fuel exports in August introduces a new variab...
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According to WPB, Iraq’s decision to offer discounts approaching $30 per barrel on August-loading Basrah crude provides a direct measure of the com...
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According to WPB, oil prices fell sharply on August 3 after the United States suspended a planned military attack on Iran and shifted its immediate f...
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According to WPB, Iran and Iraq are reviewing and expanding a wide range of maritime, pipeline, road, rail and multimodal export routes as disruption...
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According to WPB, ADNOC’s seventh crude tender since the beginning of June has confirmed that Asian refiners are paying a measurable premium for su...
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According to WPB, Iraq’s new export corridor through Syria has moved from an emergency response into a functioning Mediterranean trade route. Iraqi...
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