Matthieu Favas
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The Intelligence from The Economist · Roaring trades: oil majors’ secret success story · 2 Jul 2026
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The secret source of these trading operations is the intelligence, the information they can harness.
from the vast operations of the mothership.
So the majors are huge companies.
They've got lots and lots of oil and gas fields, refineries, terminals, storage facilities, tanker fleets all around the world.
As the majors operate this big global network
There's a lot of information that surfaces about the amount of supply, the amount of demand that there is in the world.
And therefore the direction of prices.
And so using that intelligence, they can harness volatility.
So that's how they do it.
And that's the reason why when I speak to sources, they say these operations they they basically never lose money.
They make bad bets sometimes, but on an annual basis, they find ways to correct that.
And so in worse years, they just make a bit less.
Um in good years they make a lot of money.
This being a good year.
I think for them.
Yeah.
I think so.
Yeah,
That's what's really interesting, 'cause these teams, they are at the same time large and pretty lean.
So
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