Global oil marker is characterized by low oil prices resulting from an excessive supply over demand. Under the effect of low prices oil production on cost-intensive oilfields began falling, drastically decreased investments in the development of unconventional petroleum deposits including shale...

Global crude oil prices surged in 2017 on the back of the production-cut agreement between OPEC and a group of non-members including Russia. In January–November 2017, Russian crude oil was traded at an average of $52/bbl in the global market, adding $10 to the previous year's price. In late...

The revision of the oil output baseline for the UAE made it possible to reach a compromise in the negotiations to extend the OPEC+ agreement. In return, the UAE supportedthe proposal to extend the current deal until the end of 2022, and to increase thetotal oil production by OPEC+ countries by...

This paper proposes a partial equilibrium model to describe the global crude oil market. Pricing on the global crude oil market is strongly influenced by price indices such as WTI (USA) and Brent (Northwest Europe). Adapting an approach for pool-based electricity markets, the model captures the...

The oil output cut agreement between some OPEC and non-OPEC countries, including Russia, pushed global crude oil prices to USD 50–55 a barrel in the first few months of 2017. The oil output boost in the United States and in some other countries has become an increasingly greater challenge...

This paper studies macroeconomic consequences of oil price shocks caused by innovations in the monopoly power in the oil market. Monopoly power is interpreted as oil producers' ability to charge a markup over marginal costs. We propose a novel way to identify markup shocks based on meetings of...

This paper proposes a partial equilibrium model to describe the global crude oil market. Pricing on the global crude oil market is strongly influenced by price indices such as WTI (USA) and Brent (Northwest Europe). Adapting an approach for pool-based electricity markets, the model captures the...