When no less than Russian President Vladimir Putin put his authoritative stamp on a proposed extension of the OPEC-non-OPEC Vienna output agreement into 2018, it sounded to us like an
Saudi oil officials are irritated but hardly panicking over the recent plunge in oil prices, attributing the drop to long positions being unwound among some hedge funds, and remain confident
Crude oil prices enjoyed a bit of a rebound today, mostly on the back of the less than expected build in US oil inventories and renewed chaos in Libya that
After all these long months of posturing and public vows, the flushing out of positions and back channel negotiations, the efforts to underpin a higher equilibrium in oil prices has
The resignation of Iraqi oil minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi will not have any impact on the April 17 meeting of OPEC and non-OPEC oil ministers in Doha to ratify and broaden
Three essential points to clarify the politics of the efforts to broaden the oil output freeze in the wake of the meeting in Tehran between Russian oil minister Alexander Novak
The single most important takeaway in this morning’s news from Doha that Saudi Arabia and Russia have agreed to a provisional oil output “freeze” is that both countries have come
We take the news of a possible visit in March to Moscow by Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud very seriously, as potentially marking the culmination of
For all the trial balloons that were being floated through recent days, mostly by lower level oil officials around the globe talking up the prospects of an OPEC meeting and
EU Heads of States will meet in Brussels on December 17 and 18 to discuss, among other topics, the extension of the financial and trade sanctions against Russia that are
Germany’s Vice-Chancellor and head of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition SPD partner Sigmar Gabriel suggested on October 29 the EU consider a step-by-step easing of its financial and trade sanctions
There has been a good deal of speculation lately over the capacity of the 28 EU countries to find a consensus at the upcoming June European Council to extend the
Alexander Lukashenko, the President of Belarus, one of the few countries still maintaining cordial relations with both Russia and Ukraine, organized a trilateral meeting last week of Russian, Ukrainian and
Alexander Lukashenko, the President of Belarus, one of the few countries still maintaining cordial relations with both Russia and Ukraine, organized a trilateral meeting last week of Russian, Ukrainian and
Deep into a lengthy press briefing yesterday State Department Deputy Spokeswoman Marie Harf stated the US has new information that Russia is firing artillery rounds across the border into eastern Ukraine and
President Vladimir Putin appeared on Russian television in the wee hours of the morning of Monday, July 21, at 1:40 a.m., in the aftermath of the global outcry and accusations
In conversations with US President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian President Vladimir Putin has shown no signs of backing off of Moscow’s support for a referendum on
