Singapore/ AFP US crude tumbled below $27 a barrel in Asia Thursday as the oversaturated market struggled to cope with high inventories in the United States and an increased output from OPEC. The decline came despite the weekly US Department of Energy report showing USA oil stocks fell about 800,000 barrels for the week ending on February 5, with traders ...

Bloomberg The world is so awash with crude, the boss of BP Plc said people will be filling their “swimming pools” with it by the end of the year. While the company’s Chief Executive Officer Bob Dudley bemoaned this bearish outlook for oil, traders were eyeing a potentially profitable opportunity: turning supertankers into temporary floating storage facilities. Trading houses including ...

Singapore/ AFP US crude tumbled below $27 a barrel in Asia Thursday as the oversaturated market struggled to cope with high inventories in the United States and an increased output from OPEC. The decline came despite the weekly US Department of Energy report showing US oil stocks fell about 800,000 barrels for the week ending February 5, with traders seeing ...