(By Oil & Gas 360) – Sand rarely gets the attention. It doesn’t move markets the way crude prices do. It doesn’t dominate headlines like LNG exports, OPEC decisions, or geopolitical conflict. Yet without it, much of the modern shale industry simply doesn’t work. That reality is becoming more obvious again as U.S. drilling activity stabilizes, longer laterals continue
(Oil & Gas 360) By Greg Barnett, MBA – For decades, the conventional economic narrative held that rising gasoline prices act as a direct tax on consumers, reducing discretionary spending and slowing economic growth. That framework still exists in textbooks, but real-world behavior—especially in the post-2020 environment—suggests the relationship has fundamentally evolved. The modern U.S. consumer is not responding to
(BOE Report) – Goldman Sachs said in a note on Tuesday that U.S. natural gas production is showing signs of price sensitivity as Henry Hub prices moved back above $3 per million British thermal units this week for the first time since late March. The bank sees the ongoing signs of U.S. dry gas production price sensitivity as the most
(Oil Price) – The global gas markets are seriously underestimating how the shock loss of LNG supply from the Middle East will affect the world and economies in the coming months and years, the head of Australia’s top LNG exporter, Woodside, said on Wednesday. “I don’t think markets and consumers and society are yet fully appreciating it, and there’s a
(World Oil) — bp has signed three production sharing contracts (PSCs) in Indonesia, expanding its upstream exploration portfolio near the company’s existing Tangguh LNG operations in Papua Barat and adding participation in a new East Java block. The agreements cover the Bintuni and Drawa exploration blocks near the bp-operated Tangguh LNG project, as well as the INPEX-operated Barong block in East
(BOE Report) – The tanker crew gathered their courage and carefully navigated along a route designated by Iran, hugging the coastline and maneuvering their hulking vessel between island checkpoints through the Strait of Hormuz. The 330-metre-long Agios Fanourios I, laden with Iraqi crude oil and bound for Vietnam, had been bottled up off the coast of Dubai since late April.
Weekly Crude Oil Storage as of May 15, 2026 U.S. commercial crude oil inventories (excluding those in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve) decreased by 7.9 million barrels from the previous week. At 445.0 million barrels, U.S. crude oil inventories are 2% above the five-year average for this time of year, according to the EIA crude oil and petroleum weekly storage data,
(Oil Price) – Three commercial supertankers carrying a combined 6 million barrels of Middle East crude oil have successfully exited the Strait of Hormuz, Reuters reports. The vessels departed the strategic waterway on Wednesday, after being stranded inside the Persian Gulf for over two months, lending hope to an end to the closure of the strait. The crude cargoes were
