Javier Blas

1 week ago | businesstimes.com.sg | Javier Blas

INDIA is the stuff of dreams for Opec and Big Oil: a rapidly developing nation of nearly 1.5 billion people where petroleum consumption is still in its infancy. It's the next China - so the theory goes. Perhaps one day, but in 2025 it's still the stuff of dreams. For years, energy economists have talked about "structural tailwinds" - including benign demographics, a burgeoning middle class and accelerating urbanisation and industrialisation - that would propel Indian oil demand.

1 week ago | bloomberg.com | Javier Blas

A Bharat Petroleum Corp. oil tanker truck outside an oil refinery operated by Hindustan Petroleum Corp., in Mumbai. (Bloomberg Opinion) -- India is the stuff of dreams for OPEC and Big Oil: a rapidly developing nation of nearly 1.5 billion people where petroleum consumption is still in its infancy. It’s the next China — so the theory goes. Perhaps one day, but in 2025 it’s still the stuff of dreams.

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Javier Blas

Did the Supreme Court just allow Trump to dump Powell? Scotus made a decision on how the President can manage independent government agencies. The rumblings from the White House may have tempered a bit but …

1 week ago | advisorperspectives.com | Javier Blas

Until now, the consensus – but perhaps optimistic -- view was that New Delhi would add about 1 million barrels of extra demand from 2025 to 2030. No other country was expected to see such large increases. Even if large when compared to other rapidly growing economies – Brazil, Indonesia and Pakistan, to name a few — that increase would still be far smaller than what Beijing managed during its heyday.

2 weeks ago | freakonomics.com | Stephen Dubner |Daniel Ammann |Javier Blas

For the past couple years, I’ve been letting a very good book collect dust on my shelf. A friend had told me about the book, and I did read the introduction — a wild introduction, about the C.E.O. of a British company who flies his private jet into the middle of the Libyan civil war to make an oil deal with the rebel army, an army which happened to have the covert support of the governments of Britain, Qatar, and the U.S. So, yeah, I probably should have kept reading.