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India’s BPCL to Cut Russian Oil Imports Due to Higher Prices

Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), one of the biggest Indian state-owned refiners, will reduce its purchases of crude oil from Russia in November as high freight costs and premiums for Russia’s crude undermine the attractiveness of Moscow’s oil compared to Middle Eastern offers. BPCL will buy lower volumes of Russian crude in November as the Middle East grades are more commercially…

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Super El Niño May Soften Winter Energy Squeeze

We extensively covered the unusually strong El Niño, its weather impacts by region, and the risks this adverse weather poses to crop production and global food inflation. UBS's energy team hosted a call Tuesday with meteorologist James Block to assess El Niño impacts for weather markets. The discussion comes amid a global refining crisis and continued disruptions to Strait of Hormuz energy flows,…

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IEA’s Birol: Energy Prices Won’t Return to Pre-War Levels in 2027

The Middle East conflict has tightened energy markets so much that crude oil, fuel, and natural gas prices are unlikely to return to pre-war levels in 2027, Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), said on Monday. “I am afraid I don't see any credible pathway that the markets will go next year, where we were before this war has started,” Birol said at the…

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Russia's Arctic Oil Shortcut Runs Into a Wall of Ice

A group of sanctioned Russian tankers dropped anchor some 1,300 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle in July after getting stuck and hunkered down for a long wait in the frozen waters at the top of the world. Help from two nuclear-powered icebreakers was several days' voyage away. The ships were stuck near the Vilkitsky Strait, a 55-kilometer-wide choke point between the coast of northern…

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Saudi Oil Output Jumps 12.2% to 8 Million Bpd in September

Crude oil production in Saudi Arabia rose by 12.2% in September from a month earlier, to reach 8 million barrels per day (bpd), data by Al Rajhi Capital Research cited by TradeArabia showed on Monday. Following the very low levels of crude oil output in the spring and early summer, when all Gulf producers slashed output due to inability to ship crude cargoes via the Strait of Hormuz, production…

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India's Stock Market Feels the Heat From High Oil Prices

The latest jump in oil prices has disturbed Indian equities, with both major indices starting the week with losses and 12 out of India’s 16 sectors booking losses, Reuters reported earlier in the day. With Brent crude trading at over $114 per barrel, it is not hard to see why investor sentiment in the world’s third-largest importer of crude is not exactly optimistic, pushing Sensex down by 0.46…

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Saudi Arabia Turns to Singapore for Oil Storage

Saudi Arabia has struck a deal with the Singaporean government to store crude oil in underground caverns in the city-state, Bloomberg reported today. The report follows the latest Houthi attacks on Saudi infrastructure over the weekend, which included oil facilities among their targets. The Saudi crude will be stored in the Jurong Rock Caverns, which are part of a petrochemical complex in…

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Oil Prices Dip but Hold Above $100 as Middle East Supply Threats Mount

Crude oil prices began trading with a dip this week but remain significantly elevated as hostilities between Yemen’s Houthis and Saudi Arabia, as well as Iranian attacks on tankers in the Persian Gulf, continue. At the time of writing, Brent crude was trading at $114.42 per barrel, down from over $116 per barrel last week but up from around $60 per barrel at the end of 2025. West Texas…

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