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Oil & Gas
The Anatomy of the Oil Industry
What Is a Barrel, Really?
Inside the Refinery
Upstream, Midstream, Downstream
Shale
The Shale Revolution, Explained
How Fracking Works
The Permian & the Major Basins
Breakevens & Rig Counts
The Majors
What the Majors Actually Do
IOCs vs. NOCs
The Integrated Model
Capital & the Energy Mix
Energy Markets
Why the Oil Price Moves
Reading the Oil Price
Brent vs. WTI
OPEC & OPEC+, Explained
Futures & Hedging
Spare Capacity & the Swing Producer
Resources & Infrastructure
The Plumbing of Energy
Pipelines & Tankers
Refineries, Storage & Reserves
LNG & Export Terminals
Geopolitics of Oil
Oil & the Balance of Power
Chokepoints: The Straits That Move Oil
Sanctions, Embargoes & Stranded Barrels
Resource Nationalism & Who Owns the Oil
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By the numbers
ILLUSTRATIVE · NOT LIVE
BRENT
82.40
▲0.9%
WTI
78.10
▲0.7%
NAT GAS
2.86
▼1.2%
DIESEL
2.71
▲0.3%
GASOLINE
2.44
▼0.4%
RESOURCES & INFRASTRUCTURE
Resources & Infrastructure
The physical plumbing — pipelines, tankers, refineries, storage and terminals.
Every explainer in Resources & Infrastructure
4 PIECES
01
The Plumbing of Energy
Pipelines, tankers, tanks and terminals — the physical network that keeps molecules moving.
3 MIN
02
Pipelines & Tankers
How oil and gas actually travel — the arteries of the energy system, and their choke points.
4 MIN
03
Refineries, Storage & Reserves
Where the barrel is turned into product and held — refining capacity, tank farms and strategic reserves.
4 MIN
04
LNG & Export Terminals
How gas is chilled, shipped and re-gassed — the LNG chain that turned gas into a global trade.
4 MIN