September 2017
2017, September, 20, 09:05:00
OIL PRICE: ABOVE $55 YET
The October light, sweet crude contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange gained 2¢ to settle at $49.91/bbl on Sept. 18. The November contract dropped 9¢ to settle at $50.35/bbl.
The NYMEX natural gas price for October rose 12¢ to $3.14/MMbtu. The Henry Hub cash gas price climbed by 11¢ to $3.10/MMbtu.
Heating oil for October fell nearly 2¢ to a rounded $1.78/gal. The NYMEX reformulated gasoline blendstock for October was up less than 1¢ to $1.67/gal on Sept. 18.
The Brent crude contract for November on London’s ICE fell 14¢ to $55.48/bbl. The December contract declined 17¢ to $55.25/bbl. The gas oil contract for October was $525/tonne, down $9.75.
OPEC’s basket of crudes for Sept. 18 was $53.78/bbl, up 14¢.
2017, September, 20, 09:00:00
GAS PRICES UP TO $3.146
The NYMEX October natural gas futures contract jumped 12.2 cents Monday to settle at $3.146/MMBtu, with warmer-than-average weather expected to persist through the end of September across major demand areas.
2017, September, 20, 08:55:00
ЦЕНА URALS: $51,81591
Средняя цена на нефть Urals за период мониторинга с 15 августа по 14 сентября 2017 года составила $51,81591 за баррель, или $378,3 за тонну. Согласно расчетам Минфина России экспортная пошлина на нефть в РФ с 1 октября 2017 года повысится на $3,8 и составит $87,9 за тонну.
2017, September, 20, 08:50:00
U.S. OIL + 79 TBD, GAS + 788 MCFD
Crude oil output from the seven major US onshore producing regions is forecast to increase 79,000 b/d month-over-month in October to 6.083 million b/d. Natural gas production from the seven regions is expected to climb 788 MMcfd month-over-month in October to 59.745 bcfd.
2017, September, 20, 08:45:00
RENEWABLE'S FUTURE
The falling cost of renewable energy will increasingly allow wind and solar projects to make money without subsidies, say the top executives in Europe’s power industry.
2017, September, 20, 08:40:00
TOTAL BUYS RENEWABLE
Total has picked up a 23 per cent stake in renewable energy company Eren for €237.5m as the the French oil group looks to expand its capacity in the sector.
2017, September, 20, 08:35:00
BP - AZERBAIJAN OIL DEAL
BP and its partners in Azerbaijan's giant ACG oil production complex agreed Thursday to extend the production sharing contract by 25 years to 2049 and to increase the stake of state-owned SOCAR, reducing the size of their own shares.
2017, September, 20, 08:30:00
U.S. DEFICIT UP TO $123.1 BLN
The U.S. current-account deficit increased to $123.1 billion (preliminary) in the second quarter of 2017 from $113.5 billion (revised) in the first quarter of 2017, according to statistics released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). The deficit increased to 2.6 percent of current-dollar gross domestic product (GDP) from 2.4 percent in the first quarter.
2017, September, 18, 12:35:00
OIL PRICE: ABOVE $55
U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures CLc1 were trading up 41 cents, or 0.8 percent, at $50.30 by 0852 GMT, near the three-month high of $50.50 it reached last Thursday.
Brent crude futures LCOc1, the benchmark for oil prices outside the United States, were at $55.91 a barrel, up 29 cents, and also not far from the near five-month high of $55.99 touched on Thursday.
2017, September, 18, 12:30:00
RUSSIA - CHINA - VENEZUELA OIL
“The principal risk regarding Russian and Chinese activities in Venezuela in the near term is that they will exploit the unfolding crisis, including the effect of US sanctions, to deepen their control over Venezuela’s resources, and their [financial] leverage over the country as an anti-US political and military partner,” observed R. Evan Ellis, a senior associate in the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ Americas Program.