(Oil Price) – Tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has collapsed by 90% to 95% compared to pre-war levels, analysts concur. Some oil cargoes continue to trickle through the critical chokepoint, but under increasingly opaque operating conditions, complicating the tracking of oil and gas flows and obscuring the visibility of how much energy supply actually reaches buyers these days. Traffic
(By Oil & Gas 360) – Natural gas markets are increasingly being pulled in two different directions. On one side, a combination of rising LNG exports, growing power demand, AI-driven electricity consumption, and ongoing geopolitical disruptions is supporting prices through the remainder of 2026. On the other, a massive wave of new LNG supply scheduled to enter the market beginning
(BOE Report) – The trickle of tankers exiting the Strait of Hormuz has gathered pace in recent weeks, as traders adopt stealth measures to make the crossing. While this is freeing some of the vast oil inventories trapped in the Gulf, it does not signal a slow return to normalcy. Instead, it previews the opaque, fragmented energy market the Iran
(Investing) – U.S. natural gas prices are set to continue their recent recovery into the third quarter, supported by rising LNG export flows and stronger power demand, though oversupply risks loom for 2027, according to Morgan Stanley. Henry Hub, the U.S. benchmark, had stayed below roughly $3 per million British thermal units for much of May as mild weather and softer LNG
(By Oil & Gas 360) – The global oil market remains focused on the immediate disruption caused by the Iran conflict, vessels trapped inside the Strait of Hormuz, reduced exports, tightening inventories, and volatile prices. Yet some of the industry’s largest players are increasingly warning that the bigger challenge may not be the current supply shock, but what happens after it.
(World Oil) – Vitol’s top executive in the Middle East said that many Western governments still aren’t reckoning with the oil supply crunch that’s rippling around the world due to the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. “In Europe and I think in the U.S., everyone is kind of asleep at the wheel and just carrying on life as normal,” Tom
(Oil Price) – High curtailment rates and the national grid operator frequently rejecting renewable power have prompted BlackRock-backed Atlas Renewable Energy, one of the biggest solar power producers in South America, to halt $1 billion in planned investment in Brazil, the company’s chief executive Carlos Barrera told Reuters on Wednesday. “There’s at least … 1.5 gigawatts that we put on hold
(By Oil & Gas 360) – The oil market has spent the past several weeks trading optimism. Prices have retreated from their crisis highs as investors bet that diplomacy, ceasefire extensions, and negotiations between Washington and Tehran will eventually restore flows through the Strait of Hormuz. Yet a growing number of traders, analysts, and industry executives are warning that markets may
(Oil & Gas 360) By Greg Barnett, MBA – The United States possesses the most capable financial surveillance system and the most sophisticated space-based intelligence architecture in the world. It can track cargoes leaving Iranian terminals, identify tankers operating without signals, reconstruct shipments conducted in the dark, and map the commercial networks moving those barrels across oceans. There is no
(Oil Price) – The Middle East crisis and the still closed Strait of Hormuz have created a “super-squeeze” in oil markets, which could lead to sharp price spikes, analysts at HSBC say. Prices have rallied in recent months not because of some “super-cycle” but because of the massive supply disruption and an actual squeeze in physical supply, the UK-based bank said
(BOE Report) – Global oil inventories could hit critical levels ahead of the peak summer demand period if stock draws continue at their current pace, the head of the International Energy Agency’s oil industry and markets division said on Tuesday. “We’re seeing stock draws continuing into the summer, and with the possibility or the likelihood that we reach critical levels
(Investing) – NEW YORK – Oil prices were little changed in volatile trade on Tuesday as the market waited for news on the war in the Middle East as Iran reviewed a proposed agreement with the United States to halt the war. Brent futures were up 17 cents or 0.2% to $95.15 a barrel at 10:19 a.m. EDT (1419 GMT), while U.S. West
