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Oct 10, 2021 14 tweets 9 min read Read on X
Thread on the global energy crisis
1- Investors do not invest for "wartime"!
That is why you end up with shortages during wars, especially when supplies and materials are diverted to the army.

#OOTT #Energy #Europe #India #China #Brazil #California
2- Energy investors do not invest for the time of shortages & crises except what is mandated.

But "mandated" leads to "corruption"! Examples: problems in India and China now... and the many loopholes in the US and Europe

#energycrisis #Oil #OOTT #India #China
3- Add #COVID19, supply chain issues, policy failures, domestic & international politics, violations of all energy security principles, and low investment in recent years because of low energy prices and hype of US shale, renewables, and #ElectricVehicles ..you get energy crises
4- What analysts missed, including myself, is the domestic politics in several countries and its role in creating shortages. In particular, the problems between local governments & central governments in China, India, Russia. A lot of details here.. good for speaking engagements
5- Analysts and the media must focus on the role of NATIONALISM now: it is going to make the situation worse and more global. Limiting exports of energy sources and electricity is going to be pretty common. Meanwhile, the Biden Administration is SPINLESS
6- Also ignored is the idea of "electrifying everything." We need to take a hard look at this: my can opener doesn't have to be electric, my house doors, shades, pool & garden sprinklers do have to be monitored electronically. I understand teh efficiency, but cost is too high
7- That brings us to the elephant in the room that is ignored by design: DATA CENTERS and their energy consumption. Extrapolate forward and you can see why energy crises will continue indefinitely.

Add electric autonomous vehicles .. we are in big trouble! #OOTT #Data
8- While drought around the world got wide media coverage, it was mostly from a climate change point of view.

The role of the drought in the current energy crises cannot be ignored. Some of it is related to the wrong policies and others to politics.
9- It is clear now we are seeing a return to sanity as some media outlets started exposing the failures, including the role of climate change policies. But strangely enough, European oil companies that carried the green banner are retracting. See examples below
#Oil #OOTT
10- Remember that Equinor used to be Stata Oil. It changed its name & logo to look green.

The tweet below is from Eirik Wærness, Senior Vice President and Chief economist at Equinor! The future is clear... fits with my view, and makes me less worried.
#Oil #OOTT
11- Shell got rid of its most polluting assets and focused on renewable energy... but look what its CEO said a few days ago. #Shell $RDS
Remember: divesting DOES NOT reduce global emissions
Source: spglobal.com/platts/en/mark…
12- I am reposting two tweets here because they are relevant. We have to balance "energy security" with "environmental security." The problem is: Because of different time frames for each & varying political interests, we will move from crisis to crisis unless we reach a balance
13- Finally, it is about time the media starts asking hard questions about policy failures & the role of the IEA in these crises, including their advice to the Indian government. The IEA was established to ensure the energy security of its members. What happened? #OOTT
Typo: spineless

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Mar 5, 2023
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1-9 EIA investigation of the adjustment & the results are all about “data quality.” @EIA_One tweeted a chart showing that the adjustment factor grew with exports since 2016.
I have been talking about data quality since 2017 & I created the hashtag: #Data_Quality_Matters
2-9 Mr. @EIA_One stated that the investigation led to two causes of the rise in adjustment: exports & production. Here is a tweet from June 6, 2019:
“The growing adjustment factor (something exaggerated: production or exports)”
Also, notice the hashtag
3-9 I am going down memory lane of this “data quality” to show you that some of the results of the investigation are really old news! EIA gets crude export data from the Census bureau!
This form October 2019:
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Short Thread
Let us go along with what some pundits are saying:
Global oil demand will peak soon & then decline:

1-4 That doesn't mean lower oil prices. It might mean, among various scenarios, ever-increasing prices. Remember, prices are about demand & S U P P L Y! #Oil
2-4 Oil investment is needed no matter what because of the declining rates in the fields. Even at 75 mb/d in 2050, all of it has to be new oil. We literally need trillions of dollars in upstream investment if oil demand declines. Imagine if NO decline!
3-4 The idea that oil companies will go bankrupt & the economies of the oil-producing countries will collapse if oil demand peaks are nonsense. Oil under the declining scenario might end up more precious than ever: the supply reaction to the idea of declining demand is large.
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Thread on Turkey’s Energy Ambitions & Regional Dominance
1-18 President Erdoğan gave an energy-focused speech last Friday in a ceremony for the capacity expansion of the Silivri Underground Natural Gas Storage Facility, which reached 4.6 billion cubic meters (162.45 bcf).
2-18 The speech highlights several energy policy issues, provides some interesting data, and most importantly, highlights the two issues that we focused on in this week's and last week’s newsletters: Relations with Russia and the desire to be a gas hub.
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3-18 Below are translated excerpts from the speech (from medyanotu.com ):
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Dec 17, 2022
1- The Biden Administration has the right to refill the SPR as it sees fit… but to flip the story and say we sold the oil at $96 and now we are buying it in the low $70s, therefore we are making money for the taxpayer is the worst story they can tell about the SPR.
2- from an accounting point of view, adjusted for inflation, the SPR oil that was sold at $96 in today’s dollars was sold at a very large loss. Some of the oil was sold at 40 cents on the dollar.
3- The most important stories of the SPR are:

A. it prevented oil prices from going above $140/b

B. then it lowered prices significantly worldwide, not only in the US.
Now count the economic growth benefits from that

C. It curbed Putin’s influence significantly
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Nov 21, 2022
Thread on OPEC
For those who are attacking OPEC. Hear me out:
1-9 I am a strong believer in free markets. Yet, natural resource economics dictate that natural resources need market management

2-9 Where did the idea of #OPEC come from?
Yep.. Texas Railroad Commission!
#Oil #OOTT
3-9 Just so you know in case you have no idea, Oklahoma and Texas used the armed national guards to occupy privately owned oil fields so both states can manage the oil market! This happened in the United States of America!
4-9 Has the US federal government managed the oil market? Yes, and for a long time via different means. For example, the US federal government adopted a communist-style price control that controlled all energy prices throughout the 1970s.
cato.org/commentary/rem…
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Nov 16, 2022
Thread 🩸

1- To think #Russia & #oil traders have not prepared for the Dec 5 deadline is naive.. however, everyone wants to take advantage of the weeks and days before the deadline.. activities increase, then decline, making the deadline looks more effective than reality #Russia
2- Remember:
A- the December 5 deadline is for crude only … not petroleum products

B- Five European countries are exempt in one way or the other

Question: do sanctions apply to oil via rails and trucks? 😳👿
3- Russia has already built the infrastructure to do what Iran has done for years, but on a larger scale… the ban and the price cap applies only to “official” imports…
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