Hormuz Premium Gone, Eni-Mercuria Eyes LNG Trade, RBL Math Tightens at $67 Hormuz exports recover, WTI opens at $67.66, and the geopolitical premium that ran crude to $110 in April is effectively gone. The RBL reset clock is now ticking at sub-$68.
Talos Buys Shell's Gulf Deepwater for $850M on Q2's Last Day — What $70 WTI Looks Like From Offshore Talos Energy acquires Shell's Gulf of America deepwater assets — $850M gross, $450-500M net — on the last trading day of Q2. At $70 WTI, the deal's logic says everything about where offshore operators see the floor.
$70 WTI and What the Market Just Told Us: Day-Close Verdict for US Upstream WTI crude settled near $70 on Thursday, and the market's verdict is clearer than the headlines suggest: OPEC's cohesion is cracking, US upstream operators are repricing their second-half assumptions, and the companies that moved earliest to consolidate their balance sheets are now sitting in the
Iraq Threatens OPEC Exit as WTI Breaks $70: Thursday's Supply Math Just Changed WTI broke below $70 overnight as Iraq threatened to quit OPEC over production quotas, Qatar restored LNG output, and the floor debate that defined June gets answered.
WTI Slides to $73.69 as Hormuz Risk Premium Drains: Tuesday's Oil-Gas Split WTI holds $73.69 as Hormuz risk premium drains, Iran courts Asian refiners, and the oil-gas split sharpens. Plus: AI data center power demand and what it means for gas producers.