Daily Standup Top Stories Trafigura: Iran Sanctions Are Biggest Bullish Catalyst On Oil Prices February 26, 2025 Clark Savage Trafigura Head of Trading: U.S. foreign policy vis-a-vis Iran is the main upside risk for oil. Last year, Trump pledged in his Republican National Convention speech to dramatically lower Iranian oil exports. On Tuesday, the […] Restarting Germany’s […]
Continue ReadingDaily Standup Top Stories Redrawing of global energy markets map set to heap benefits on US February 23, 2025 Clark Savage The prospects of peace and the return of Russian gas looks likely to serve the interests of Donald Trump The Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine three years ago has reverberated through the global energy industry; unravelling Europe’s […] […]
Continue ReadingWeekly Daily Standup Top Stories The End of Coal Is Nowhere In Sight February 17, 2025 Clark Savage Retirement of coal-fired power plants in the West has done nothing to reverse global coal demand. Global coal consumption is set to remain at these high levels—or even hit new all-time highs—for a few more […] ‘BRICS is dead’ […]
Continue ReadingDaily Standup Top Stories Iranian Oil Exports to China are rolling February 19, 2025 Clark Savage Iranian crude oil flows to China have rebounded this month after a U.S. crackdown on shipments launched in late 2024 decimated them in January. In a last-minute push to sanction Iran, the Biden admin blacklisted […] West will have to reconsider […]
Continue ReadingDaily Standup Top Stories Are President Trump\’s Tariffs A Good Thing? And how does LNG play into his plan? by Stu Turley Read on Substack Moscow calls for joint Russia-US projects in the Arctic February 18, 2025 Mariel Alumit The head of the Russian sovereign wealth fund has called for revival of economic cooperation between Moscow […]
Continue ReadingDaily Standup Top Stories Why China is Winning the Nuclear Energy Race February 17, 2025 Clark Savage China has significantly increased its nuclear energy capacity in the last decade, positioning it to become the world’s largest nuclear energy producer. China is actively developing and deploying advanced nuclear technologies, such as small modular […] EU gas imports from […]
Continue ReadingWeekly Daily Standup Top Stories Pushback Begins Against Trump’s Oil Agenda February 9, 2025 Clark Savage West Texas Intermediate has been trading around $70 this week after posting two weeks of declines. The last time shale producers pursued a flat-out production strategy, crude prices tanked to the $40s. Cheap oil may […] Iran Says Trump’s Maximum Pressure […]
Continue ReadingDaily Standup Top Stories US stuns European allies, opens Ukraine peace talks with Russia February 12, 2025 Mariel Alumit BRUSSELS – Donald Trump said on Wednesday he and Vladmir Putin had agreed to open talks to end Russia’s war in Ukraine “immediately”, after his defence secretary said it was “unrealistic” that Ukraine’s pre-2014 […] Saudi Arabia’s […]
Continue ReadingDaily Standup Top Stories How has green energy policies impacted the environment, society, and our financial systems? DOGE found that the Inflation Reduction Act was funding change. February 11, 2025 Clark Savage But what change you ask, well let’s start with the Inflation Reduction Act and what the huge “Porkulus Bill” as Dan Bongino has called […]
Continue ReadingDaily Standup Top Stories Iran Says Trump’s Maximum Pressure Will Fail to Drive Its Oil Exports to Zero February 10, 2025 Mariel Alumit The new U.S. Administration’s maximum pressure campaign on Iran will fail – again – and will not achieve its goal to drive the Islamic Republic’s oil exports to zero, Iran’s Oil Minister Mohsen […]
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