Oil data's disruptive hashtag
If you use Twitter and you're in the energy business, you'll know #OOTT. In his first column for Petroleum Economist, its co-founder tells us how the handle came about
It was a Wednesday afternoon in December 2015 and oil prices were dropping heavily. The reason? Something called the "EIA report". WorldEconomicCalendar.com helped me out, and as I googled further, the onion's layers began to peel off. I began reading entire Wikipedia articles, watching YouTube videos about anything and everything related to oil. Traditional extraction, trading, shipping, storage, pipelines, fracking - I soaked it all in. I wasn't a total novice. Oil has always fascinated me - as a market, a commodity, a reason for war. I was born in Kuwait and lived in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. I watched what the booms and busts did to the Arabian Peninsula. One day they're building skyscrape
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