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Navigating the Energy Landscape in 2024: The Tank Tiger’s Guide to Storage Solutions and Market Insights

Happy New Year! Time to tie those shoelaces, straighten your backs and get back to business. If you’re like us, you’re extremely excited about the possibilities that the New Year will bring. To that end, if you have any storage ideas germinating, we’re here to assist you – at no charge. U.S. crude oil closed out the year more […]

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Activist Investors and OPEC+ Drama: Navigating the Turbulent Waters of Corporate Disruption and Oil Market Tumble

Once again, an activist investor (in other words: a bully with a bag of money), has appeared on the scene to disrupt the enterprise of a long standing integrated refining and marketing company.  Last week, Elliott Investment Management unveiled a $1 billion stake in Phillips 66 and chirped about the company’s supposed underperformance.  Their all too familiar strategy […]

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Oil & Olive: A Tale of Two Liquids in the Ups and Downs of Prices

What a difference a week makes. The institutional money and hedge fund lemmings pulled a Jimbo Fisher and headed for the exits as oil prices took the elevator down last week. Prices are down nearly 20% from their September zenith. Already there are fake news protests coming from the members of OPEC+.  Obviously not happy with the direction, the […]

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OPEC+ are high fiving each other and strutting around like Brutus “The Barber” Beefcake

What just happened? The 1 million barrel-a-day output cut the Saudis assigned preliminarily just for July was exacerbated by Russia also pledging export cuts of 300,000 barrels per day. More significantly, on Tuesday they announced both cuts extending through the end of the year. That’s right, the Penguin and the Riddler have combined forces and Batman and Robin […]

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Belly Laughs and Barrels: OPEC+ Oil Inventory Games and Market Dynamics

OPEC+ is having a belly laugher of a time, watching oil inventories decline.  Last week we witnessed a 6.1 million barrel US inventory draw. That’s a big number. If OPEC+ can manage to drain inventories without a demand crunching exorbitant near term price hike, they’ll have quite a bit more leverage with their global policies next year. Being shocked […]

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