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March

2026

For as long as oil in the Middle East has been produced, observers have agonised over the Strait of Hormuz. What would the impact be on oil markets, if this 50km…

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February

2026

Way back in 2013, we wrote a report about Venezuela and its collapsing oil industry; Oil Market Report 03/13 – Portland Fuel. In that report we wrote about how a once…

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January

2026

“At the same time that the global economy weakens, the flood-gates for US oil and gas production will be opened, further compounding the over-supply situation. On that basis, it seems likely…

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November

2025

One year ago, the USA voted in Donald Trump as its 47th President and with his election came a raft of promises around (what might be called) the re-fossilisation of the…

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October

2025

Do Turkeys ever vote for Christmas? Well, in the case of The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), that might well be the case! Having shown considerable discipline over the last…

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September

2025

In an election that was largely ignored by the rest of the world (because of their much noisier neighbours to the North), Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum took office this time last year…

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August

2025

Spain and Portugal are still the most popular overseas holiday destinations for UK holiday makers. After all, what could be more Blighty than a Full English in Benidorm, Chips ‘n’ Gravy…

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July

2025

At this time of the year we normally deliver a light-hearted “summer special”. That will have to wait, because at the start of July, the UK fuel sector was rocked by…

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June

2025

We’ve hit the halfway point of the year and can now look back over the last 6 months to see what oil prices have done since the beginning of the year….

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May

2025

At times it seems that there is so much going on in the world, that it is almost impossible to keep up! However, having run a Portland office in Hamilton, Ontario…

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April

2025

Over the last 2 months, we have considered the subject of electric trucks and whether they are ever likely to take over from traditional ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) vehicles. Our focus…

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March

2025

Last month, we covered the topic of Battery Electric Vehicles (BEV’s) in the road haulage sector and concluded that the nature of optimised road transport meant a transition to electric mobility…

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