Agenda:
Registration: 11:30am
Lunch: 12:00pm
Program: 12:30pm
About the Event:
In only four eventful and momentous years, numerous major geopolitical events have shocked global oil markets and redefined how oil is, and maybe be, traded around the world in years to come. Those events and the leaders still shaping them have contributed to often staggering and unpredictable swings in global oil prices.
In the longer term, even if prices stabilize again, what may prove to be the most important ramification of this era may be, not just the differing ways oil moves around the world, but which nations may or may not buy/sell oil with each other.
Little more than a year after COVID massively disrupted global oil demand & prices, Putin’s brutal full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 rocked global oil markets once again. Within about a year markets regained their balance, as Europeans looked to reduce their excessive dependence on Russia oil & gas – and with his growing ‘shadow fleet’, Putin re-prioritized where and how his crude would be delivered.
The stunning and unexpected capture of Maduro this January may have had a relatively short term impact of global oil prices. But it set the stage for possibly dramatic political and economic changes in Venezuela – in terms of who is in power and which major companies and countries may be involved in the years to come.
Most recently, the US-Israeli War on Iran, which started less than two months ago, has already had profound impacts not only on global oil prices, but on the economies of Saudi Arabia & the Gulf States and beyond. The war also launched an ever-changing and ongoing conflict to determine control and access to the vital artery that supplies 20% of the world’s oil – the Strait of Hormuz.
Whether it might result in more Russian pipelines to China, more American energy companies being willing to work in Venezuela or Gulf States looking for long-term alternatives to avoid the Strait of Hormuz, global oil markets, trading partners and routes for delivery may never be the same.
