MARKET WATCH: Technical market tactics drove recent oil-price rallies

Light, sweet crude oil prices for September delivery gained slightly on the New York market Aug. 19 to close at about $48.50/bbl during a week in which daily gains rose by more than $1/bbl twice but analysts generally agreed the rallies stemmed from technical trading reasons rather than oil market fundamentals. Source: News


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Too much science

While science has a rightful place in policy-making, too much science can do more harm than good. Source: News


Stable instability

Largely undercutting a true lower-for-longer oil-price scenario, wherein the sub-$30/bbl touched in February becomes the norm as it was pre-2003, has been persistent oil production outages in nations that double as the world’s biggest producers and biggest hotbeds of political instability. Source: News


Algerian drilling campaign ends with oil discovery

Algeria’s state-owned Sonatrach and its partners completed its drilling campaign in Hassi Bir Rekaiz with the Bou Goufa-2 (BOG-2) well that flowed 2,406 b/d of oil and 2.9 MMcfd of associated gas. BOG-2 was drilled to TD 4,064 m at the end of April. Drill stem tests showed flow rates from the Triassic Argilo Greseux […]


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