Houthi rebels are menacing vessels in the Red Sea. But the attacks won’t stop the oil tankers

Houthi rebels are menacing vessels in the Red Sea. But the attacks won’t stop the oil tankers

Despite the attacks and the risk of more conflict,some companies are insisting that the oil tankers they charter take the Suez Canal route,rather than an excursion around Africa.

  • byStanley Reed

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Oil’s global glut threatens to drag prices lower in ‘tricky year’ ahead
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Oil’s global glut threatens to drag prices lower in ‘tricky year’ ahead

Traders wonder if OPEC+ will deliver enough of the cutbacks to rein in the looming surplus.

  • byYongchang Chin andDevika Krishna Kumar
From Miss Australia to oil boss:Suellen Osborne’s nation-building plan

From Miss Australia to oil boss:Suellen Osborne’s nation-building plan

An Australian company wants to develop onshore oil and gas in Timor-Leste that may help arrest the tiny country’s alarming decline in government revenue.

  • byAnne Hyland
Readers get rarer
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Readers get rarer

While barflies can’t get enough rope.

Putin’s choice:The war or his people

Putin’s choice:The war or his people

Russia’s economy is starting to buckle as the West tightens its grip,and there’s no relief in sight. Vladimir Putin may have a decision to make.

  • byStephen Bartholomeusz
The oil cartel is caught in the trap that it set

The oil cartel is caught in the trap that it set

The Saudi Arabia-led OPEC+ cartel hatched a plan to tighten its grip over the world’s oil prices. It has backfired spectacularly.

  • byStephen Bartholomeusz
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$80b oil and gas merger will beat competition concerns,says industry

$80b oil and gas merger will beat competition concerns,says industry

Analysts say oil and gas majors Woodside and Santos can overcome competition concerns.

  • bySimon Johanson
What COP28 achieved – and what it failed to do
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What COP28 achieved – and what it failed to do

For the first time in COP’s 28-year history and in the face of fierce opposition from some states,fossil fuels were explicitly named in the event’s final text.

  • byNick O'Malley
Another land grab attempt is underway,this time on the other side of the world

Another land grab attempt is underway,this time on the other side of the world

Following massive offshore oil discoveries in the region and with elections coming,the Venezuelan president appears to have taken a leaf out of Putin’s playbook.

  • byRegina Garcia Cano andJorge Rueda
Origin shareholders billed $77.7m for failed deal

Origin shareholders billed $77.7m for failed deal

Advisers from law firms to investment banks are the biggest winners after Origin shareholders rejected a multi-billion-dollar takeover offer from Brookfield and EIG Partners.

  • byAnne Hyland
Deferred meeting of OPEC+ points to dissent in the oil cartel
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Opinion

Deferred meeting of OPEC+ points to dissent in the oil cartel

The oil producers’ meeting has been postponed to next week amid reports that members of the cartel are divided on how to respond to a slump in oil prices and the conflict in Gaza.

  • byStephen Bartholomeusz