Oil and Gas Prices

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November 25, 2019
Oil steadied near $58/bbl as China made a concession that could help resolve trade tensions with the U.S. that have weighed on the global economy and fuel demand.
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November 20, 2019
The price of Canadian heavy crude weakened Tuesday as a worker strike at the nation’s largest railway curbed oil shipments, exacerbating a supply glut that’s crippled Canada’s oil industry.
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November 19, 2019
Futures fell as much as 2.7% in New York, the biggest intraday decline since Oct. 14. U.S. oil inventories probably rose by 1.5 MMbbl last week, according to a Bloomberg survey ahead of a government report on Wednesday.
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November 19, 2019
The views of the three big oil forecasting agencies on changes in inventory levels next year have diverged over the past month, as the outlook from two of them becomes slightly more positive for producers.
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November 14, 2019
Oil rose for a second day after an industry report pointed to a drop in U.S. inventories, and as OPEC said it sees potential for a “sharp” slowdown in American shale output next year.
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November 14, 2019
Qatar Petroleum is set to join most of its Persian Gulf counterparts and price its crude before loading instead of afterward from next year, according to people familiar with the plans. That
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November 12, 2019
“The prospect of oversupply looms over the market in 2020,” said Martijn Rats, global oil strategist at Morgan Stanley. “Either OPEC deepens its cuts, or prices will fall to about $45/bbl, and force a slowdown in U.S. shale that balances the market.”
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November 11, 2019
Murban pricing will move from a retroactive official selling price to market-driven, forward pricing using a Murban futures contract as its price marker.
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November 08, 2019
Oil erased an early loss Friday, capping a weekly gain as investors shrugged off a comment by President Donald Trump that the U.S. hasn’t agreed to fully roll back tariffs with China.
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November 06, 2019
Oil fell after a report that the biggest producers in OPEC+ aren’t pushing for deeper oil-supply cuts when the group meets next month.
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November 05, 2019
Reflecting growing pain across the energy sector, the Oklahoma-based company’s shares and bonds tumbled Tuesday after it said it may not be viable as a “going concern” if low oil and natural gas prices persist.
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November 05, 2019
Saudi Arabia has priced its lighter crude at the widest premium to heavier oil in almost two years as new rules mandating cleaner shipping fuels drive demand for less-sulfurous grades.
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November 04, 2019
Futures advanced as much as 1.8% on Monday in New York. Chinese government officials are considering locations in the U.S. where leader Xi Jinping would meet U.S. President Donald Trump to sign a trade accord, people familiar with the plans said.
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November 04, 2019
Abu Dhabi will begin trading futures contracts of its flagship oil grade in what could eventually become a new price benchmark for a fifth of the world’s crude.
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November 03, 2019
America’s two biggest oil majors are leaning on booming shale production in the Permian basin to weather the gathering macroeconomic storm of lower oil demand, weak commodity prices and slowing global growth.
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October 31, 2019
Oil slid the most in two weeks after Saudi Arabia boosted crude output by more than a million barrels a day against the backdrop of renewed worldwide trade woes.
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October 29, 2019
ConocoPhillips posted higher-than-expected third-quarter earnings as the world’s largest independent oil producer generated almost $1 billion of free cash flow despite lower crude prices.
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October 29, 2019
BP reported profit that beat analyst estimates as a strong refining performance offset the effect of lower oil and natural gas prices, and bad weather that curbed production.
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October 28, 2019
Oil fell for the first time in a week amid renewed signs of swelling crude inventories in the world’s biggest economy.
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October 27, 2019
Oil posted the biggest weekly gain in more than a month as supplies tightened and the White House signaled progress on U.S.-China trade talks.
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October 27, 2019
Money managers boosted their net-long position on West Texas Intermediate crude for the first time since mid-September in the week ended Oct. 22, data released Friday show.
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