Hedging Strategies As Crude Oil Approaches $50 or $150
Crude oil prices once again traded above $100 today which has many asking, how high will it go, while others wondering if we may see prices collapse,...
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Crude Oil Risk Management With Participating Swaps
At the request of one of our subscribers, this post addresses how E&P companies can hedge their crude oil price risk with participating swaps. A...
Commodity Index Reweightings To Impact Crude Oil Hedging?
While most oil market participants are focusing on Iran, Petrolplus and numerous other macro and micro variables, many are missing the elephant in...
Sovereign State Oil Hedging On The Rise?
For an update on sovereign oil hedging activities, see the following article: A New Look At Sovereign Oil Hedging Strategies. While many are of the...
Brent-WTI Crude Oil Spread Continues to Collapse
After topping out in October at $27.88/BBL, the Brent-WTI spread continues to collapse, settling yesterday at $8.82/BBL, the lowest level in nearly a...
Hedging Crude Oil Via Deferred Cost Floors
Since bottoming near $77/BBL in early October, the 2012 WTI calendar strip has increased by more than $20 a barrel, trading as high as $101 in mid...
New Platts' Brent Formula Will Impact Oil Hedging
On September 16th, Platts announced that is going to "Amend the date range reflected in the Dated Brent assessment to 10-25 days forward, instead of...
Weekend Reading: Oil Supply, Demand & Prices In Pictures
In an attempt to put things a few things in perspective, while noting that it's Friday and most are already enjoying the weekend, we've compiled a...
$85 Oil: An Ideal Hedging Opportunity?
As crude oil and refined products have declined significantly in recent days and weeks, we've received numerous inquires as to whether we think...
Our Thoughts On The IEA Crude Oil Release
While we generally avoid commenting on news and politics, we thought the announcement from the the IEA last Thursday to release 60 million barrels of...