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Summary In August 2022, Santos took Final Investment Decision for the DPD project which will now see future Barossa gas being sent straight to the onshore Darwin LNG plant. Prior to the DPD plans, the planned Barossa gas export pipeline was to tie into the existing Bayu-Undan GEP ...

Summary Powell’s speech last Wednesday raised recession fears. The Atlanta Fed revised its third-quarter GDP estimate down to a +0.3% annual pace, down from its previous estimate of a +0.5% annual pace. U.S. interest rates also shot up in response to the Fed Chair’s ...

Summary Even if the political landscape were to become temporarily supportive, it would be too risky to invest in anything other than small projects with rapid paybacks. Regime Uncertainty is a pervasive lack of confidence among investors in their ability to foresee the extent to ...

Summary The British pound UK gilts – the equivalent of U.S. Treasuries – had outsized moves on Friday with 10-year gilts surging as much as 50 basis points in a single day, while the pound cratered. The outsized Fed rate hikes in the middle of all this volatility are...

Summary While European and Asian natural gas prices have fallen significantly from their recent peak, they remain at exceptionally high levels. High Eurasian natural gas prices are having both short-term and long-term effects. If the trend toward lower costs for alternative en...

Summary Stocks are now back down to the lows set in June and sentiment is as negative now as it was then. There is a long list of technical items that have hit levels or rates of change we associate with bottoms, short- or long-term. The economic data last week was mostly abou...

Summary On 16 August 2022, President Joe Biden signed into law the IRA. The COVID-19-related global supply chain disruptions, extreme weather events, rising inflation, and the Russia-Ukraine crisis have pushed the cost of capital to record highs. Meanwhile, in China, surging c...

Summary The Norway Petroleum Directorate reported that production rebounded from June to July to 1,664 kb/d and then rose to 1,773 kb/d in August. Guyana added an additional 30 kb/d of production in August to reach a new high of 390 kb/d. On September 23, 2022, WTI settled bel...

Summary Global refined oil product markets are on track to remain tight until mid-decade, with the global downstream industry facing significant near-, medium- and long-term challenges. S&P Global Commodity Insights forecasts that there are no quick fixes for the forces at pla...

Summary The energy market has certainly had a very positive year so far. FTSE All World Oil, Gas & Coal is up 20% YTD (to end August), 39% ahead of the broader FTSE All World Equity Index. Looking more broadly across asset classes, whilst energy equities were strong (and less ...