Special reports

Liam Yates (senior analyst, Middle East upstream, Wood Mackenzie) and Kristina Beadle (analyst, carbon research, Wood Mackenzie) assess the role national oil companies can play in decarbonisation.

Oil prices are rising today as a result of optimism for a coming demand uptick in key economies such as the US, China and the UK, and also assisted by a weak dollar; back to back gains pose a risk amid the worsening Covid-19 situation in India however.

Oil prices are on the rise today but the pandemic is hitting India hard and US crude stocks are forecast to build again.

Oil prices are ticking up today on trader hopes that OPEC+ may address India’s demand destruction with supply policy amendments in its coming meeting.

Oil prices are largely unchanged today as positive developments in the US and Europe face off with increasing Covid-19 infections in India.

Oil prices extended their losses on Thursday as the market priced in concerns over increasing Covid-19 infections in Asia and a surprise US crude stocks build.

Rystad Energy is downgrading its peak oil demand forecast to 101.6 million bpd, a pinnacle that will come in 2026, which is earlier than previously thought.

Oil prices are set to close the week with notable gains as the market got a boost from positivity over the speed of the oil demand’s recovery.

Oil prices fell today as a result of a steep rise in gasoline stock levels in the US and concerns over the AstraZeneca vaccine future usage.

American oilfield services and equipment sector employment rose by an estimated 23 015 jobs in March, according to a report compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Energy Workforce & Technology Council.

In an article from Oilfield Technology's first issue of 2021, Adam Calvin, TETRA Technologies, USA, analyses sand recovery challenges and conventional methods.

In an article from Oilfield Technology's first issue of 2021, Manash Goswami and Artem Abramov, Rystad Energy, explain why US tight oil’s overhaul in 2020 has positioned the industry for robust future performance.

Oilfield Technology’s first issue of 2021 begins with a look at US tight oil’s prospects this year, before moving on to cover completions technology, production forecasting, electric fracturing, sand recovery and more.

Oil prices rose on Wednesday as the market expects OPEC+ to keep a conservative output policy in the following day’s meeting, due to the speed lag of the oil demand recovery.

Oil prices fell on Monday as the Suez Canal blockade is getting closer to a resolution and as global Covid-19 infections rose for a fifth consecutive week.