(By Oil & Gas 360) – This week, energy markets were pulled in two directions. On one side, geopolitics tightened the narrative around supply risk. On the other hand, capital discipline and balance sheet repair quietly continued underneath the surface. Oil prices found support, but the bigger story wasn’t the price alone. It was positioning by governments, producers, and investors.
(By Oil & Gas 360) – Crude prices are back in motion, with oil posting its first weekly gain of the month before slipping from recent highs as rising U.S.-Iran tensions injected fresh volatility into the market. Early gains reflected concern that escalating friction in the Middle East could threaten supply flows or key transit routes. Even without confirmed disruption,
(Oil Price) – If there was any lingering doubt about what’s keeping Big Oil executives up at night, the fourth-quarter results cleared it up. It’s not slogans. It’s not transition optics. It’s whether they have enough high-quality barrels to avoid production decline in the 2030s. The majors are refocusing hard on upstream portfolio renewal for the next decade, according to WoodMac,
(World Oil) – Ecopetrol reported proved reserves of 1.94 Bboe at year-end 2025, representing a 2.7% increase from 2024 and marking the company’s highest annual reserve additions in four years. The Colombian national oil company added 300 MMboe of proved reserves during 2025 and achieved a reserves replacement ratio of 121%, driven primarily by enhanced recovery projects and improved operational performance across
(Oil Price) – The ratcheting up of tensions between the United States and Iran could push an already red-hot supertanker market even higher with rates soaring to the highest level since 2019, analysts say. The daily rate for hiring a supertanker on the key Middle East-to-China route has surged threefold since the beginning of the year, to over $150,000. That’s
(BOE Report) – American financier Gentry Beach, who has ties to U.S. President Donald Trump’s family, signed an agreement with Russia’s energy giant Novatek last autumn to develop natural gas in Alaska amid Western sanctions against Russia, the New York Times reported on Friday. In August, Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Alaska for talks aimed at ending
(World Oil) – The Texas Independent Producers & Royalty Owners Association (TIPRO) has launched a new electricity procurement initiative aimed at helping oil and gas operators manage rising power demand and costs across Texas. The TIPRO Power Texas program, developed in partnership with Arise Energy, provides member companies with access to competitive electricity sourcing options through a digital procurement platform that connects users
(Investing) – The U.S. appears to be “likely at this stage” to conduct a military operation in Iran, although the scope and goals of any actions remain an open question, according to analysts at Raymond James. In a note to clients, the Raymond James analysts including Ellen Ehrnrooth and Ed Mills predicted that the Trump administration may prefer a “more
Weekly Crude Oil Storage as of February 13, 2026 U.S. commercial crude oil inventories (excluding those in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve) decreased by 9.0 million barrels from the previous week. At 419.8 million barrels, U.S. crude oil inventories are 5% below the five-year average for this time of year, according to the EIA crude oil and petroleum weekly storage data,
