March
03/23/2006 | Oil Market |
A remarkable and unexpected +6.3% was the result of February oil product sales, which amounted to 7.547mn tons, 446,000 more than the same month last year. The extra came almost entirely from an increase in fuel oil sales, up 438,000 tons of which 385 for thermoelectric and 53 for other uses, on whi ...
03/16/2006 | Oil Market |
The Italian oil industry has margins unlike any others in the rest of Europe, which enable the companies, fighting to sell ever greater volumes of fuel (today already over 70%), to stipulate contracts equal to 70 euros per thousand liters, more than twice what the average service station operator ge ...
February
02/16/2006 | Oil Market |
The International Energy Agency considers that the effects of geopolitical tensions in Nigeria and Iran on the increase in price of a barrel of oil have been exaggerated. The February Oil Market Report shows that of the 450,000 barrels a day missing in January, not one can be attributed to Iran, whi ...
02/15/2006 | Oil Market |
January
01/19/2006 | Oil Market |
(From Staffetta Quotidiana, Tuesday 17/01/06)
With consumption of 7.7mn tons of oil products, the last month of the year registered the twelfth negative figure for oil consumption, a -6.1% that is the third highest after those of July and January, and that completes an annual result of 86.3mn tons sold that was down 3.7%, or 3.3mn tons less in ...
01/12/2006 | Oil Market |
December statistics round out a not very inspiring year for gasoline, whose average of 0.134 euro/liter is down a thousandth of an euro over 2004, another not very good year. Gasoil's 0.138 euro/liter average meant a gain of 15 thousandths of euro over 2004 (+12%). The result for gasoline would have ...