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Saudi Arabia Russia In Battle For Supremacy In China
...Saudi Arabia and Russia are increasingly cooperating in the energy sphere, having come together through the onset of Opec/Non-Opec production cuts since January 2017. But when it comes to the lucrative Chinese oil market, the two are engaged in a fierce battle for market share. China looks se...
Volume: 62Issue: 09Published at Fri, 01 Mar 2019 -
Global LNG Trade Hits New Records. More To Come?
...Not only did 2017 see global LNG trade hit new records, but January 2018 saw new monthly highs. Shell’s latest ‘LNG Outlook’ suggests that new records are in store. The three East Asian countries which are by far the top three global LNG importers – Japan, China and South Korea – im...
Volume: 61Issue: 09Published at Fri, 02 Mar 2018 -
Asian Importers’ Opec Crude Addiction Grows
...rket share in Asia’s largest buyer, China, as Russian imports surged (see chart 1). Indications are that a concerted effort is being made to rectify this in 2017. Asia’s big four buyers increased their crude imports by 1.09mn b/d in 2016, 930,000 b/d of which came from Opec. The upshot was that Op...
Volume: 60Issue: 09Published at Fri, 03 Mar 2017 -
US Exporting Record Volumes Of Crude And Products In 2017
...Preliminary data for the first two months of 2017 show US crude exports this year could well eclipse last year’s record of 520,000 b/d (MEES, 23 December 2016). According to weekly data from the US government’s Energy Information Administration (EIA) the US exported 632,000 b/d in January and 93...
Volume: 60Issue: 09Published at Fri, 03 Mar 2017 -
Asian Buyers Influence Key Oil Benchmarks
...teoric growth in US oil output makes exports of US light sweet crude inevitable by 2017, Platts quoted him as saying on 26 February. The debate over potential exports has already begun in Washington but the proposal to open up new markets still faces still opposition from some quarters concerned about en...
Volume: 57Issue: 09Published at Fri, 28 Feb 2014