Live, source-linked oil developments: crude markets and the geopolitics that move them (OPEC, Hormuz, Red Sea, US-Iran, Russia-Ukraine), from global publishers and primary sources. Every item links to its original publisher.
- Southeast Asia’s shadow fleet dilemma: when geopolitical caution collides with maritime risk · Lloyd's List
- Grossi harms impartiality and independence of UN nuclear watchdog: Baqaei · IRNA
Tehran, IRNA — Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei has criticized the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for his continued politically motivated and biased stance towards Iran’s peaceful nuclear program, warni...
- UK Business Calls For Scrapping Taxes on Electricity Bills · OilPrice.com
The large businesses in the UK have urged the government to remove taxes on electricity bills for business to make Britain more competitive and energy costs more affordable amid escalating energy prices that hurt both consumers and indus...
- IAEA should not be a chain for political justification to war · Mehr News
TEHRAN, Sep. 11 (MNA) – Referring to International Atomic Energy Agency role, Iranian foreign ministry spokesman says an institution tasked with helping to safeguard intl. peace and security must never become part of chain producing pret...
- Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi: "The U.S. Treasury Secretary has been gleefully boasting about wanting to impoverish Iranians and collapse our econom... · @osint613
Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi: "The U.S. Treasury Secretary has been gleefully boasting about wanting to impoverish Iranians and collapse our economy. Instead, he stands powerless and exposed as the world loses belief in the U.S...
- Houthis announced a large-scale operation launched September 3 against Saudi-backed forces along Yemen's western coast. They claim to have expelled Saudi for... · @osint613
Houthis announced a large-scale operation launched September 3 against Saudi-backed forces along Yemen's western coast. They claim to have expelled Saudi forces from six districts across Taiz and Al-Hudaydah, covering 5,400 sq km, hit se...
- Treasury Secretary Bessent, responding to a Wall Street Journal report that Iran is rebuilding its missile inventory: "Maybe they are, but where's the calibr... · @osint613
Treasury Secretary Bessent, responding to a Wall Street Journal report that Iran is rebuilding its missile inventory: "Maybe they are, but where's the calibration? Where's the magnitude? We've destroyed 85% of their factories. So are the...
- Putin at the BRICS summit: "Over the past 5 years, more than 40% of world GDP has been produced by the BRICS states. Whereas the contribution of the so-calle... · @osint613
Putin at the BRICS summit: "Over the past 5 years, more than 40% of world GDP has been produced by the BRICS states. Whereas the contribution of the so-called 'Big Seven' -- why it's big, I don't understand -- well, it amounted to only 2...
- Oil shipments through Strait of Hormuz rise with US military assistance · stripes.com
- Jeff Currie Sees $5 Gasoline Before Midterms · OilPrice.com
Diesel just broke $6 a gallon nationwide for the first time in U.S. history, and Jeff Currie says $5 gasoline is likely to land before midterms. The founder and CEO of Real Macro, who spent more than a decade running Goldman Sachs’ commo...
- Treasury Secretary Bessent on Iran: What we’re seeing with Iran now is a cornered and wounded animal. It’s the last gasp of the dying regime. · @osint613
- President Putin: All the time we were told that competition is a sacred cow, and you can't touch it. But unfortunately, your Western competitors today are tr... · @osint613
President Putin: All the time we were told that competition is a sacred cow, and you can't touch it. But unfortunately, your Western competitors today are trying by any means to return their former leadership. This competition today acqu...
- Iranian President Pezeshkian: "Economic security is inseparable from national and regional security." He noted Iran has faced extensive sanctions in recent y... · @osint613
Iranian President Pezeshkian: "Economic security is inseparable from national and regional security." He noted Iran has faced extensive sanctions in recent years.
- Iran President Pezeshkian: Iran proposes BRICS establish $10 billion insurance fund for major infrastructure and energy projects. · @osint613
- Scott Bessent: China's central-planning approach to AI "will never work" because the CCP won't cede enough control. He said the regime fears that figures lik... · @osint613
Scott Bessent: China's central-planning approach to AI "will never work" because the CCP won't cede enough control. He said the regime fears that figures like Tencent's CEO or Alibaba's Jack Ma could build something powerful enough to br...
- The IDF killed Moamen Jabr Al-Sayed Abu Labda, commander of a Hamas sniper cell in the Rafah Brigade, in a Thursday strike in Khan Younis, southern Gaza. The... · @osint613
The IDF killed Moamen Jabr Al-Sayed Abu Labda, commander of a Hamas sniper cell in the Rafah Brigade, in a Thursday strike in Khan Younis, southern Gaza. The military says he ran sniper training across the Strip in preparation for attack...
- Princess Astrid of Norway, older sister of the late King Harald, 94, has died two weeks after the King's death. · @osint613
- Minister acts to stop pivotal British Modernist painting from leaving the UK · UK Government
The government has temporarily blocked ‘The Resurrection of the Good and the Bad’ by Stanley Spencer, a painting considered pivotal in the development of British Modernism, from being taken out of the UK permanently.
- IEA Slashes Oil Demand View · Rigzone
The International Energy Agency cut forecasts for oil demand this year and warned consumption may decline further in the coming months.
- BREAKING: Norway's Princess Astrid, the older sister of King Harald, has died, exactly two weeks after the King's death · @faytuksnetwork
- AfD leader Ulrich Siegmund said a weapons producer in Saxony-Anhalt could provide resources for the party’s planned deportation campaigns. Siegmund said the... · @faytuksnetwork
AfD leader Ulrich Siegmund said a weapons producer in Saxony-Anhalt could provide resources for the party’s planned deportation campaigns. Siegmund said the AfD does not oppose military production for domestic purposes. "We do not condem...
- US inflation held steady at 3.4% in August, with core inflation easing slightly to 2.4%. The BLS said that food costs increased 2.1% in August, while the ind... · @faytuksnetwork
US inflation held steady at 3.4% in August, with core inflation easing slightly to 2.4%. The BLS said that food costs increased 2.1% in August, while the index for gasoline rose 3.9%. Following the release, traders raised bets on a Fed r...
- US inflation holds steady as diesel prices pass $6 a gallon · BBC Business
Prices in the US rose 3.4% in the 12 months to August, according to the latest official figures.
- Houthis chanted their "Scream" slogan from the coasts of Mokha and Bab al-Mandab. · @osint613
- Houthis Advance on Bab al-Mandeb as Saudi Oil Route Comes Under Threat · OilPrice.com
Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict Yemen's Houthis captured the Red Sea port of Mocha on Thursday, taking the approach to the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, which connects the Red Sea (and the Suez Canal, beyond it) to the Gulf of Aden and the Indi...
- WTI Breaks $100 as Middle East Supply Crisis Deepens · OilPrice.com
October WTI crude oil futures are trading at $101.26 early Friday, up $10.04 or 11.01% for the week so far. The contract traded as low as $90.87 before reaching $104.46, its strongest level since May. Last week, the market was testing wh...
- Vostok Oil: One Tanker, Four Trillion Rubles · OilPrice.com
Every headline number behind Vostok Oil — from the tanker fleet and shipping target to the resource base and flagship well — has failed to survive contact with what Rosneft has actually drilled, built, or shipped. Four trillion rubles in...
- Energy Aspects: Oil Market Has Reached an "Inflection Point" · OilPrice.com
Crude oil prices are poised for further increases and the trending trajectory is higher, as global inventory drawdowns have accelerated and China is back to buying significantly higher crude oil volumes than in the spring, Energy Aspects...
- A 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia's Maluku. No tsunami potential, the country's geophysics agency said. · @osint613
- 'No cause for concern' for navigation through Bab el-Mandeb, Houthis say · Türkiye Today
- Oil Prices Slip After Recent Surge Amid Supply Risks · WSJ World
Oil fell after surging in the previous session, as traders assessed growing risks to Middle East crude exports following fresh territorial gains by Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen.
- I moved my shop 20 miles because I couldn't afford £300 a week on fuel · BBC Business
People in Turriff, Aberdeenshire, tell BBC Scotland News the impact rising petrol prices is having.
- Kazakhstan’s oil output to stay stable despite disruptions - Moody’s · trend.az
- Saudi airstrikes hit Yemen's rebel-held Mokha airport as Houthis capture strategic island · CBC
- Houthis at the Bab al-Mandeb Strait. · @osint613
- Iran’s Houthi allies capture strategic island on vital oil shipping route · Guardian Oil
Rampant Yemeni fighters take control of island in narrow point of Bab al-Mandab strait, which Saudi is relying on for oil exports Violence in Yemen: why it matters and how it is linked to the US-Iran war Yemen’s rampant Houthi forces hav...
- Majed Faraj, PA Intelligence chief and Fatah Central Committee member: Hamas must apologize to the Palestinian people for the catastrophe since October 7 bef... · @osint613
Majed Faraj, PA Intelligence chief and Fatah Central Committee member: Hamas must apologize to the Palestinian people for the catastrophe since October 7 before returning to political life as a faction like all others.
- Iran's Foreign Ministry accuses the IAEA and its Director General of politicizing technical nuclear assessments, claiming they were used to build the case fo... · @osint613
Iran's Foreign Ministry accuses the IAEA and its Director General of politicizing technical nuclear assessments, claiming they were used to build the case for military aggression against Iran. Spokesperson Ismail Baghaei warned the agenc...
- Iranian president says he does not support continued war, urges strengthening country’s resilience · Anadolu Middle East
Pezeshkian says Iran must avoid negotiating with 'enemy' from position of weakness
- Airstrikes target Houthi positions near Yemen’s Bab el-Mandeb Strait: Report · Anadolu Middle East
Strikes hit Houthi positions and gatherings at Mokha port and airport, Yemeni media says
- Oil futures: Crude off highs, heads for solid weekly gains · Quantum Commodity Intelligence
- USA Diesel Hits $6 Per Gallon for First Time Ever · Rigzone
'It is a level diesel has never reached', GasBuddy said.
- China's Crude Imports Set to Hold at 7.2 Million Bpd in September · OilPrice.com
China is on track to import roughly the same volumes of crude oil in September as it did in August, extending the trend of recovering shipments just as crude oil prices soared to above $100 per barrel again. Kpler’s preliminary vessel-tr...
- Houthis capture Red Sea island in threat to shipping, and other Mideast developments · AP News
- Russia and India's central banks are developing a mechanism to settle bilateral trade using digital currencies, Sberbank CEO Herman Gref says. The move could... · @osint613
Russia and India's central banks are developing a mechanism to settle bilateral trade using digital currencies, Sberbank CEO Herman Gref says. The move could speed cross-border payments and cut reliance on SWIFT. Both countries aim to gr...
- Iranian State broadcaster IRIB News is claiming that another American UUV (Unmanned Underwater Vehicle) was targeted today. No independent verification is po... · @osint613
Iranian State broadcaster IRIB News is claiming that another American UUV (Unmanned Underwater Vehicle) was targeted today. No independent verification is possible at this time.
- Houthis fired 7 ballistic missiles toward Lahij coastal area: Yemeni government source · Anadolu Middle East
Ras al-Ara lies near strategic Bab el-Mandab Strait and is controlled by government forces
- Saudi oil production hits lowest since 1990 amid war disruptions · Yeni Safak English
- Houthis claim 2 Saudi airstrikes hit Mokha airport in southwestern Yemen · Anadolu Middle East
Saudi Arabia did not immediately comment on Houthi claim
- German prosecutors have charged seven men over a Hamas plot to carry out coordinated attacks on Jewish and Israeli targets in Berlin and Vienna on the second... · @faytuksnetwork
German prosecutors have charged seven men over a Hamas plot to carry out coordinated attacks on Jewish and Israeli targets in Berlin and Vienna on the second anniversary of October 7, according to WELT, with weapons and ammunitions procu...