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An Almost Compelling Argument

07 Oct 2026

An Almost Compelling Argument

Numbers do not lie. Well, usually they don’t. If you add two to two, you get four. If the price of a medication costing $100 is cut by 600%, the patient will get paid $500 for the prescription. If 5.8 million bbls of crude oil have been pumped through the East-West pipeline, as estimated by Aramco’s CEO, or 12 mbpd of crude oil and 2 mbpd of products are transiting the Middle East, according to the boss of Vitol, the oil balance changes materially.

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A Crude Pause for Thought

06 Oct 2026

A Crude Pause for Thought

The price of the global crude benchmark, Brent, is once again toiling around $100/barrel as its reasons for trading much beyond the psychological 3-digit mark are being eroded. It is so very hard to complete a picture on how many oil tankers are making passage through Hormuz for the data is retrospective rather than live.

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Handbrake turns

05 Oct 2026

Handbrake turns

There was a sigh of relief, perhaps even some cork-popping, in Washington, D.C., on Friday afternoon. The arsonist, posing as a firefighter, extinguished the fire by coercing its partners to open the water—well, the diesel spigot. The Administration granted the US oil industry’s wish.

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