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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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
February
2025
With the news last year that China sold more electric cars than conventional petrol and diesel cars, the automotive press has been alight with speculation around the demise of the Internal…
January
2025
It’s the start of another year and as is now tradition, this report will focus on the last 12 months and how oil markets have progressed in that period. We will…
November
2024
It would be an understatement to say that global geo-political tensions have been uncomfortably high throughout 2024, what with the ongoing wars in Ukraine, Palestine and Lebanon, missile exchanges between Iran…
October
2024
To adequately summarise US energy policy in a few short paragraphs is a nigh-on impossible task; a report on the world’s biggest economy (still) and biggest energy producer should really take…
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