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Why Oil Prices Look Strong on Paper but Soft in Reality

Why Oil Prices Look Strong on Paper but Soft in Reality

By Neil Crosby – Oct 06, 2025, 3:00 PM CDT Oil markets are split between paper and physical realities. Futures remain backwardated and strong on paper, while physical crude grades show clear signs of weakness. Refining capacity, not crude supply, is the key bottleneck. Oil markets are struggling to reconcile geopolitics with fundamentals as headlines

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Hema Sane, botanist who lived without electricity, died on September 19th

Hema Sane, botanist who lived without electricity, died on September 19th

In a crumbling four-story wada in Pune’s old quarter, where temple bells compete with motorbike horns and hawkers press against the walls, an upstairs room stayed stubbornly off the grid. There, surrounded by sparrows and squirrels, a small woman in a plain cotton sari wrote longhand by daylight or by the glow of a kerosene

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Fed Rate Cut Fails to Lift Oil as Inventories Weigh

Fed Rate Cut Fails to Lift Oil as Inventories Weigh

Michael Kern Michael Kern is a newswriter and editor at Safehaven.com and Oilprice.com,  More Info Premium Content By Michael Kern – Sep 19, 2025, 10:09 AM CDT Oil prices ended the week slightly lower as U.S. inventory builds and oversupply fears outweighed the Federal Reserve’s long-awaited interest rate cut. Friday, September 19, 2025 The long-anticipated

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EPRA: List of 10 Kenyan towns with highest, lowest fuel prices

EPRA: List of 10 Kenyan towns with highest, lowest fuel prices

The Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA) announced new fuel prices for September 15 to October 14, 2025 EPRA attributed the price adjustments to reduced landed costs of imported petroleum, but Kenyans expressed frustration over the minimal relief Kenyan towns in the coast and central regions have the lowest fuel prices, while the northern and

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American Oil Majors Expand as Smaller Producers Retreat Amid Price Pressures

American Oil Majors Expand as Smaller Producers Retreat Amid Price Pressures

Alex Kimani Alex Kimani is a veteran finance writer, investor, engineer and researcher for Safehaven.com.  More Info Premium Content By Alex Kimani – Sep 14, 2025, 4:00 PM CDT U.S. oil hit a record in June (13.58 mb/d), but momentum is fading. Smaller operators are pulling back, and only the majors are still adding barrels.

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