Oil demand

Rising consumer demand for fuels from an expanded refinery and retail chain as the Covid-19 pandemic faded helped propel sharply improved financial performance by Cenovus Energy Inc. in the first six months of this year. The Calgary firm’s downstream chain of 1,073 service stations and five U.S. refineries – two in Ohio and one each…

Pennsylvania’s oil and natural gas industry supported 6.1% of the total jobs and 9.7% of its gross domestic product (GDP) in 2019, according to a new study commissioned by the American Petroleum Institute (API). The industry overall supported 480,000 total jobs (102,500 direct and 377,800 indirect) and contributed $78.4 billion ($39.4 billion direct and $38.9…

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allied group of leading oil producers headed by Russia, aka OPEC-plus, on Sunday reached a deal to further boost production through the end of the year and into 2022. The member countries, led by Saudi Arabia, committed to bringing back all the crude supply they had…

Amid a ramp-up in both oil- and natural gas-directed drilling, the United States added five rigs to raise its tally to 484 during the week ended Friday (July 16), according to the latest count from Baker Hughes Co. (BKR). Three natural gas-directed rigs and two oil-directed rigs were added domestically during the week. The U.S.…

In its first detailed estimates for 2022, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) said Thursday global crude demand would increase through next year as coronavirus vaccination efforts expand and consumption of travel fuel mounts. In its closely watched Monthly Oil Market report, OPEC said demand next year would increase by 3.3 million b/d…

As both domestic and global demand for travel fuels derived from oil builds, domestic crude inventories dropped substantially for a third straight week, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said Wednesday. Excluding those in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, domestic oil inventories for the week ended July 2 decreased by 6.9 million bbl from the previous…

Covid-19 upended the energy markets last year, with natural gas proving to be resilient while renewables continued to surge, according to BP plc. The 70th edition of BP’s Statistical Review of World Energy 2021 issued on Thursday revealed a global energy market that transformed in 2020 unlike any year in history. Primary energy and carbon…

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies, aka OPEC-plus, debated on Thursday a proposal to further boost crude oil production, anticipating steadily increasing demand for travel fuels in the second half of 2021. Citing successful vaccination efforts and economic momentum in leading countries such as the United States and China, the Saudi…

An acceleration in travel and economic activity should hasten the resurgence in global oil demand in the second half of 2021, cutting into supplies and justifying increased crude production, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) said Thursday.  In its closely watched Monthly Oil Market Report, the Saudi-led cartel affirmed expectations it reported a…