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A look at events impacting fuel prices in November and predictions for December

News

Thoughts on fuel prices – November in review

...in lower prices. It’s beginning to look a lot like…. Chaos in the oil markets 5th December could be a history defining day with regards to oil prices. On that...
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Market Report

Prices and predictions: how are we faring?

...and whether the oil price predictions we made in January are on course to be correct. Let’s start with crude and the Brent price, which started the year at $76...
A new approach born from a deep understanding of fuel distribution

Interview

Value Oils: leader in online fuel distribution

...at competitive market prices. “Now trading under the registered brand name ‘ValueOils.com’, the company runs a successful, independent online home heating oil price comparison website across the whole UK. The...

Opinion

Highs and lows of the oil price drop

...main gas supply, and therefore relying on heating oil, the sudden price drop meant that many households were purchasing extra oil to store, before the prices inevitably began to climb...

News

Oil users – fuel price winners once again!

...commentators agree that OPEC’s attempt to push the price of crude oil up has probably failed. While it’s never possible to predict the price oil with certainty, unless there is...

News

Could heating oil prices be frozen?

...very little mention was made of other fuels such as heating oil. The possibility of a heating oil price freeze Citing international factors, gas and electricity suppliers plus a number...
The Weeks

Interview

The downstream customer

...oil and there is a premium price to be paid for last minute deliveries!” Sue reflected: “We think that oil distributors would help, but the quicker you want your oil,...

News

Dealing with price volatility

...on offer   Who, what, when, how much and at what price? At Argus market intelligence services underpin price assessments. With more than 200 reporters worldwide monitoring, checking and reporting...

News

Oil prices rise on OPEC+ deal extension

An agreement to extend the deal on record production cuts until the end of July which was reached at a virtual meeting of OPEC+ on 4 June, saw oil prices...

News

February 2016 update

...would have sent prices sky-rocketing. But such is the current level of over-supply in the oil markets that prices only momentarily headed up, before continuing their relentless drive downwards. The...

Opinion

Fuel price fears as OPEC+ cuts oil production

...to increase output to stem rising prices, and the latest rebuff leaves the President assessing whether to release further strategic oil stocks to lower prices. “The President is disappointed by...
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Market Report

The eternal influence of black gold

...the field are clearly vast. At today’s oil price ($90 / bbl), the oil field has a value of around $1trn and, with current production levels of 500,000 barrels per...