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Oil prices fell on Friday as traders corrected the extravagant gains of this week, pricing in concerns over Covid-19’s effect on the demand recovery.

Celeros Flow Technology is a new name in the upstream arena – but some of its brands will be very familiar. Oilfield Technology caught up with CEO José Larios to find out more.

Will Scargill, Managing Oil & Gas Analyst at GlobalData, says that BP's transition to an integrated energy company will require "significant movements in the M&A market, if it is to be delivered in the targeted timeframe."

Francois Laborie, Cognite, US, considers how to optimise the fraccing value chain through open data in a low-priced oil market.

Oil prices rose on Wednesday on expectation for a significant draw in US crude oil stocks last week, but Covid-19 remains a concern.

Rystad has said that Saudi Aramco is seeing great uncertainty in the near term demand outlook for Saudi Arabia's crude.

Oil prices fell on Tuesday on concerns that a rise in Covid-19 infections globally will halt oil demand, leaving the increasing supply from August unused.

Covid-19 has led to a crisis in the global oil industry with a dramatic fall in prices and weak consumer demand creating difficulties for the upstream sector right now. Keith Tilley, CEO, Intoware, explains why companies must re-think their digital strategies or risk being left behind.

Oil prices rose a bit today, correcting some of yesterday’s losses, which were more a sign of shock on economic collapse figures. Nevertheless, traders brace for August, a month of returned production from OPEC+ amid stalled demand recovery.

Oil prices are falling today, with traders ignoring yesterday’s US crude stock news and acknowledging Covid-19’s threat to the demand recovery, while waiting for OPEC’s returned production to hit the market again.

Oil prices are seeing modest gains today as surprisingly high oil stock draws are expected in the US, but the rise is capped by concerns over a coming imbalance from August.

Oil prices remain largely stable but concerns abound, while the market braces for some OPEC+’s curtailed production to return soon.

Julian Pereira, TrendMiner, explores how use of data analytics can help oil and gas companies move to next levels of operational excellence and face volatile market pressures.

Oil prices fell on Monday, taking a hit by concerns over Covid-19’s continuous expansion and due to the latest US-China tensions saga.

Oil prices fell on Friday as the market is influenced by US-China relations and the continuous expansion of the pandemic.