Aug 2, 2021 | Insight
Once again Brent hits the newswires with the issuance of a joint paper by Platts and ICE and the opening of a consultation. And again, with the supporters of Johan Sverdrup lined up on one side and the WTI acolytes on the other, the only question is which is Scylla...
Jul 26, 2021 | Insight
Twenty four years ago in 1987 at Stanford University in California, John Browne (one of the most influential petroleum figures of the Anthropocene) delivered a seminal speech committing BP to a series of actions to counter global warming and climate change. Big Oil...
Jun 1, 2021 | Insight
Perhaps the events of 26th May will come to be seen (as many commentators have already suggested), as a watershed day for Big Oil. In different settings, but for much the same reasons, Shell, Exxon and Chevron had (in Texas Wildcatter lingo) their “asses handed...
Feb 24, 2021 | Insight
After years of mulling over the appetite and consequences, Platts have finally signalled a move to include a CIF price – that of WTI Midland (or W Tim as one industry wag has christened it) – in the Brent Blend basket starting in July 2022. This is the...
Feb 11, 2021 | Insight
Michael Lewis’s 1999 book, The New New Thing, hit the shelves just as the technology mania and the crazy valuations of entities with net-zero revenues (to ape current phraseology) frenzied the investment world (best represented in the mid 1990’s by the launch of...
Sep 16, 2020 | Insight
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