Author: intent

Extreme, But Unjustified, Pessimism Has Returned to Oil Markets

The oil price selloff appears to have been triggered by a return of demand pessimism thanks to last week’s report by the EIA that showed a 7.3M-barrel build in U.S. crude stocks.
Standard Chartered: demand fears are overblown.
StanChart says that traders are betting that OPEC+ will maintain the current levels of production restraint.

Is China’s Oil Demand Set For A Major Bounce Back?

China’s extraordinary economic expansion almost singlehandedly drove a supercycle in key commodities since the mid-90s.
This robust performance across several major sectors in China’s economy is in sharp contrast to the growth drivers seen last year.
China continues to buy oil from Russia and Iran at a discounted price

CEO OF GHANA GAS COMPANY UNDER PRESSURE TO SIGN DUBIOUS $812MILLION GHANA GAS PHASE 2 CONTRACT…for Prez Akufo-Addo’s secretary, Asante Bediatuo’s son

With just about seven months to go for the general election this December and with possibly a new government to be sworn-in soon after that, dubious contracts worth millions of dollars are being awarded by the Akufo-Addo/ Bawumia government to their relatives and cronies. One of such dubious contracts is the award of the Ghana Gas Company Phase 2 project to a son of the Nana Asante Bediatuo.