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Falling Oil Prices Drive Need for Better Data Management Practices
The perilous freefall of oil prices during the last several months has been a stark reminder that uncertainty and volatility are relentless forces in the energy and commodities markets. During…
Analyzing the Decline in Oil Prices with ZEMA – Part 2
In Part 1 of this blog, I discussed the aftermath of falling crude oil prices on the North American crude derivatives (RBOB gasoline and heating oil). Apart from the obvious…
The Iraq Conflict: The ISIL Takeover and Brent Spread Pricing
The recent string of rebel takeovers in Iraq has affected not only the safety of its people but global energy markets as well. The last week of June 2014 marked…
Platts Global Crude Oil Summit: Stay on Top of the Recent Trends in Oil Benchmarks with ZEMA
The oil pricing landscape is facing critical changes as regional activities surrounding established benchmarks are impacting markets on a global scale. Asia’s lower-than-anticipated appetite for crude oil, coupled with the…
Reading the Commodity Market Barometer
Since energy products are the backbone of the economy and are widely used by all sectors, the general belief is that a rise in energy commodity prices in translates to…
Backwardation, Tightening Inventories, and Higher Prices Ahead: One View of Oil’s Future
Energy economist Phil Verleger has been waging a steady war against the argument that “too much” trading of energy futures contributes to higher prices. To the contrary, as he has…
A Year in Review – The Fiscal Cliff’s Effects on Global Markets
The fiscal cliff in the United States was the hot topic surrounding domestic economic policy throughout 2012, as my colleague Ian Mathieson discussed in his year in review last December.…
Alberta’s New Sturgeon Refinery: High Risk for High Reward?
Source: ZE After eight years in the works, a sod-turning ceremony was held September 13, 2013 to celebrate the beginning of a new project that will result in a $…
Oil Draining From Cushing Reflected in Futures
In the BusinessWeek article, “The Giant Sucking Sound: Why is Oil leaving Cushing’s Tanks So Fast?” , Matthew Philips takes a look at why a “historic glut of crude that…
Syria and Cyber-Attacks: New Targets Call for New Security Measures
“Welcome to the new world,” was the response of Michael Chertoff, the former secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, to the recent computer attacks on the New York Times…