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Oil Near $100 Seen as Base Case for 2026

Oil market participants are increasingly pricing crude to be capped near $100 a barrel over the next year, as demand is forced to slow down to counter millions of barrels of supply losses caused by the US-Iran war. That’s one of the conclusions from a Bloomberg Intelligence survey that received 126 responses this month from […]

BP Enters 3 New Indonesian Blocks

BP PLC has signed three new production sharing contracts (PSCs) in Indonesia, which it said present potential for fast-tracked development. Two of the PSCs, the Bintuni and Drawa exploration blocks, sit near the BP-operated Tangguh LNG in Papua Barat province, a six-field project that started production 2009 and is now producing up to 11.4 million […]

What Happens to Oil if Iran Permanently Taxes Hormuz Traffic?

What would the implications be for the oil market if Iran decided to permanently tax/toll traffic through the Strait of Hormuz? According to Howard Shatz, a senior economist at RAND and a professor of policy analysis at the RAND School of Public Policy, if the U.S.-Iran conflict led to a permanent tax or toll in […]