Petition to rebrand 'benefits' as 'subsidies' so people like Monaco Jim here can relate

'The UK has been colonised by immigrants', says INEOS boss and Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe

Now three tankers, four destinations. www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-...

EU hydrogen industry update: production goals shortfall, mandate-driven demand, CBAM confusion www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-...

we gave another news-less Opec MOMR the story treatment it deserved: www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-...

One, two, three - count 'em - tankers carrying Venezuelan crude heading to European refineries with arrival dates within the next 8 days www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-...

🎶 stuck outside of Blackfriars with the Thameslink blues again 🎶

Tata says the UK has 8 weeks to save its steel industry, or be "left exposed as the dumping ground of the world" for its excess supply www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-...

Indian government puts a price on net zero, and it's a hefty one www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-...

headlines today about the US warning flagged ships to stay out of Iranian waters in Hormuz as much as possible - this is reiteration of existing advice, not new advice, just extending it out for another 6 months, not a precursor to the apocalypse. Thank you for your attention etc

US imports of European gasoline are usually low in January, but this year they were really low. Story here, with detail on the growing importance of Buckeye's Bahamas-based Borco blending business www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-...

Vitol has pushed back its peak oil demand projection. www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-...

Sony to use bio-plastics in its products www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-...

North Sea licence holder (no production as yet) agrees financing deal with company that will acquire royalty interests over some of its assets, then "securitise and tokenise" those and offer them to its own investors. orcadian.energy/potential-fu...

US company wants to buy British Steel for a 'nominal sum' AND get the government to help fund electrification. Government is over a barrel here www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-...

Via Private Eye. UK lager is watered down for tax purposes

They closed the CIA World Factbook and deleted it entirely.

Here's Mandleson pitching for a job at Glencore

the thinkers at PVM consider oil price risk premia: where it comes from and where it goes tpicap.com/pvm/insights...

Morgan Stanley on whether oil is being propped up a bit by gold

Libyan media confirmed that Saif al-Islam Gaddafi was killed by four people near the city of Zintan in the west of the country. ➡️ https://l.euronews.com/oJak

P66 buying Venezuelan crude via The New Route, but says the price has to be right www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-...

Carlyle exec offers odds on Iran, Venezuela and Ukraine. Are you taking them? www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-...

Rtrs says US shot down an Iranian drone that was heading towards the USS Abraham Lincoln

well, shit. UK bank planned to devalue the Qatari currency and break its peg to the dollar. content.govdelivery.com/accounts/UKF...

Making it a whole lot easier to fire X into the sun. Synergies.

Epstein files show he pushed to be adviser on Vision 2030. Here's some advice about Aramco IPO, pitched via an Emirati go-between. "November 7 will mark one year since you and I met and laughed. Many things have changed since, and many, have not. You became crown prince and I remained a friend"

Skipper of the Solong guilty of gross negligence manslaughter after his container ship broadsided oil tanker Stena Immaculate in the UK North Sea last March. www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/nor...

Epstein files show he pushed to be adviser on Vision 2030. Here's some advice about Aramco IPO, pitched via an Emirati go-between. "November 7 will mark one year since you and I met and laughed. Many things have changed since, and many, have not. You became crown prince and I remained a friend"

No extra Opec supply before April www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-...

A piece of work here www.the-londoner.co.uk/the-londoner...

Interesting turn of events. After Trump complained the Panama Canal was controlled by China through Hong Kong-based CK Hutchison, it will now be controlled by the parent country of Greenland.

US big oil may be reluctant to be in Venezuela, but they will be happy buyers of Venezuelan crude. Chevron and Valero said today they planned to take more to their US refineries www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-...

#Iran issued a warning to ships at sea Thursday that it planned to run a drill next week that would include live firing in the Strait of Hormuz, potentially disrupting traffic through a waterway that sees 20% of all the world's oil pass through it. - @apnews.com

Brent crude above $70/bl for the first time since a short stay in September. Hasn't finished a day above there since July

Lukoil tries again to sell its non-Russian business, this time to Carlyle having seen its Gunvor deal rebuffed by the US. Needs Ofac approval for this too. www.lukoil.com/PressCenter/...

good this. Big barrier to finding a new owner is that, as with much of Europe's refinery complex, Schwedt is old, in need of modernisation, in a falling demand market and as such is a deeply unattractive proposition. European governments need to prepare to be the refinery owner of last resort

scanning the Southwark Crown Court listings for the former Nigerian oil minster's trial, which began today, I find this. Jenny in the dock.

all-seeing tariff eye turns to focus on South Korea www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-...

From the extensive list: 'Sly Dunbar (drums)' www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlt-...

US natgas prices go way up as the freeze set in, incentivising domestic supply over LNG exports www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-...

50 today. My fave Bowie, I think It's not the side effects of the cocaine I'm thinking that it must be love It's too late, to be grateful It's too late, to be late again It's too late, to be hateful The European cannon is here www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpIh...

Vitol could be moving Venezuelan crude into the Med www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-...

UK gas market looking tight in March www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-...

French Navy intercepts shadow fleet tanker Grinch in the Mediterranean.

Trump defended his designs on Greenland — which he referred to as a "piece of ice" and kept calling "Iceland". Otherwise the Davos speech was the usual spin and the usual barbs www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-...

"If it wasn't for us you'd all be speaking German" - Trump there, channeling his Englishman on an 18-30 holiday