OPIS Crash Course

With continued record high global temperatures and the effects of climate change continuing to take its toll on world economies, governments have come together to reduce carbon emissions. One key method is to put a price on emissions, forcing companies that pollute to pay to do so. Learn about global carbon credit markets and how investment in a new financial index can help fight climate change.

Gasoline and diesel prices have been utterly shaken in 2020 due to the destruction of fuel demand alongside efforts to stem the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. But lying beneath overarching oil market volatility, each U.S. spot market has its own unique drivers, expected to shape prices this year. Understand these fundamentals to help anticipate what's next.

Oil, gasoline & diesel prices in 2020 have already spiked & sputtered. Prices have been influenced by traditional factors like supply & demand, but also by wildcards like geopolitics & the COVID-19 coronavirus. OPIS Chief Oil Analyst Denton Cinquegrana shares his picks for key factors that have impacted 2020 fuel prices so far & will continue to do so in the year ahead.

IMO 2020 regulations are now in effect, with implications stretching to gasoline and diesel prices. Pat Hemsworth, Senior VP at Paragon Global Markets and Denton Cinquegrana, chief oil analyst at OPIS join the Crash Course for IMO 2020 specifics for refiners and  IMO 2020 price impacts for the bunker fuel market and beyond.

Mexico has been the setting for one of the biggest energy stories of the past decade after reform to bring private investment into the country to fulfill growing gasoline and diesel needs.

There have been – and remain – hurdles to jump as the market opens. OPIS editors Daniel Rodriguez and Justin Schneewind talked to us about the evolving gasoline and diesel market landscape.

Natural Gas Liquids (NGL) prices dropped aggressively during  2019, opening up opportunities & challenges for exports of  propane, butane and ethane. We interviewed OPIS' Bobbie Clark and IHS Markit's Darryl Rogers for 2020 insights and a look ahead.

Find out how jet fuel is priced and what influences the rise and fall of prices in the U.S. market, which produces nearly 2 million barrels of jet fuel a day.

Oil price volatility is one of the many repercussions of a hurricane. In addition to damage to life and property, hurricanes can rattle fuel supply and demand. Using recent storms as examples, two OPIS experts take us inside scenarios that can play out in the gasoline and distillate markets.

Two OPIS experts give you the inside scoop on what happens inside a refinery. Find out the key units involved in producing various types of gasoline and distillate fuel, as well as what transpires when those units go offline for planned maintenance or unexpected downtime. Understand the connection between refinery units and gas and diesel prices and the options refiners have when output levels or fuel supply needs change.  

The clock is ticking ahead of dramatic changes to the fuel that global shipping fleets are allowed to burn. IMO 2020 regulations, reducing sulfur levels in bunker fuel, stand to have major repercussions for oil prices. But many unknowns remain. We turned to a professional on the ground at the Port of Rotterdam for hands-on advice on what's to come and what's next post-IMO 2020.