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What price oil? 2024 In review

...obligations from July 2025 29 HVO prices rise with ICE Gasoil September     5 UK pushes back timeline on Chinese biofuels investigation 10 HVO prices weighed down by ICE Gasoil 20...

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Portland Market Report – oil prices

...attractively low oil prices. The two biggest strategic buyers of oil in the world are the oil reserve companies of the USA and China respectively, both of whom are currently...

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Free oil? Not today …

...oil prices” in the media, are prices for delivered futures contracts in the USA, they are not prices for physical oil, certainly not in the UK. The people who sold...

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OPEC+ agrees to continue with current output targets, despite market uncertainty

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What price oil? 2023 In review

...not seen since the 1980s, oil prices fell during Q1 and Q2. The weakening of global oil markets led the OPEC+ cartel to cut production by 2 million barrels per...

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Cyberattack effect on oil prices

...vulnerabilities within US infrastructure. Why do oil prices vary? Oil prices vary from day to day, but when an unexpected event occurs that causes disruption in the supply chain, drastic...

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Crude oil trend boosts heating oil prices

...prices. “Prices have soared due to recent world events – the weakened pound Sterling following the UK referendum result; and speculation that many major oil producers, in particular Russia, were...

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September 14 update

...with another financial crisis and oil prices could plummet to below $50 per barrel. It has happened in the very recent past – in 1999 oil prices were $15 per...

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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...

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Will summer fuel prices skyrocket in the UK?

...diesel and fuel prices further Using data from GlobalPetrolPrices.com, Speedy Fuels was able to compare the price of diesel globally and discovered a stark contrast in the price of the...
A look at events impacting fuel prices in November and predictions for December

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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...
OMJ price reveiw

Analysis

What price oil? Q1 2025 in review

...7th March. All other biofuel premiums to ICE Gasoil rose sharply as Gasoil weakened. UCOME prices briefly came under pressure from low HBE ticket prices which reduced physical blending. On...

Opinion

Highs and lows of the oil price drop

...has been warned that 30,000 jobs in the gas and oil sector could be lost, with oil prices falling to their lowest in two decades. But, despite the global crash...

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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The distributor offer revisited

...of the value chain – whether filling station pump prices, heating oil prices or those charged to commercial/industrial users.  This has recently triggered an OFT investigation into how pump prices...

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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...