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2025 Hedging Survey

Strategies should focus on customer retention and security in an uncertain market
Strategies should focus on customer retention and security in an uncertain market Each April, Oil & Energy looks at the state of the market and talks to experts about pricing and… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/2025-hedging-survey/

Trump Policies and Energy Markets

New policies aim to bring crude oil and refined products prices down by maximizing production
New policies aim to bring crude oil and refined products prices down by maximizing production The Trump administration’s approach to energy policy has been controversial and… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/trump-policies-and-energy-markets/

It’s Price Protection Season!

Energy marketers are getting prepped to launch offers to their customers for their pricing programs in the 2024-2025 heating season
It’s that time of year again. Energy marketers are getting prepped to launch offers to their customers for their pricing programs in the 2024-2025 heating season. There are… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/its-price-protection-season/

Rally Recap

Crude oil and refined products futures rallied sharply throughout the second half of 2017 and much of January 2018, with front-month NYMEX WTI crude oil futures rising to a high of $65.61/bbl on January 24.
Crude oil and refined products futures rallied sharply throughout the second half of 2017 and much of January 2018, with front-month NYMEX WTI crude oil futures rising from a low… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/rally-recap/

Tightening Global Oil Supply

Recently, global crude and refined products markets have been tightening. In September, “IEA and OPEC issued reports suggesting that global commercial oil stocks have been diminishing, while oil demand growth is strong and expected to stay that way” (OilP…
Recently, global crude and refined products markets have been tightening. In September, “IEA and OPEC issued reports suggesting that global commercial oil stocks have been… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/tightening-global-oil-supply/

Curtailing Excess Oil Output

It’s certain that global oil supplies are right now extremely excessive. World inventories are substantially above five-year averages, U.S. oil drilling rig counts have increased relentlessly, U.S. projects in the Gulf of Mexico are coming onstream, Libya…
It’s certain that global oil supplies are right now extremely excessive. World inventories are substantially above five-year averages, U.S. oil drilling rig counts have increased… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/curtailing-excess-oil-output/

Change and Adaptation

Heating oil marketers are emerging from another challenging heating season that saw OPEC try to control oil production, while volatility dissipated and prices settled in at an intermediate level between the notable highs and lows of recent winters. U.S. p…
Heating oil marketers are emerging from another challenging heating season that saw OPEC try to control oil production, while volatility dissipated and prices settled in at an… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/change-and-adaptation/

Take Control of Product Costs

When John “Mac” MacKenna, the impetuous and enthusiastic editor of Oil & Energy, ordered me to write an article in accordance with the theme of Cost of Sales for this issue, I was quite excited, as I felt that this was right in our wheelhouse.
When John “Mac” MacKenna, the impetuous and enthusiastic editor of Oil & Energy, ordered me to write an article in accordance with the theme of Cost of Sales for this issue, I was… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/take-control-product-costs/

NEFI, PMAA Urge CFTC Not to Cede Authority

When Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act in 2010, it mandated that the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) reform the commodities marketplace by improving market oversight. In the six years since then, the CFTC has failed to…
When Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act in 2010, it mandated that the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) reform the commodities marketplace by… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/nefi-pmaa-urge-cftc-not-cede-authority/

Risk Spectrum Has New Look

Price volatility is a concern that never goes away for energy marketers. Risk looks different in 2016 with oil prices recently dropping to 13-year lows and strong indications that inventory overhang will keep prices depressed in 2016. Another ever-present…
Price volatility is a concern that never goes away for energy marketers. Risk looks different in 2016 with oil prices recently dropping to 13-year lows and strong indications that… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/risk-spectrum-has-new-look/

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