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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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