Introducing The Critical Mass Show at CERAWeek

 

The Oilholic has spent decades covering energy markets and wears many hats as the readers of this blog may already know. At CERAWeek 2026 - one of the world's leading energy events organised by S&P Global - yours truly is delighted to announce that he's now going deep on nuclear too!

Last month, the Oilholic launched a new show - available in both podcast and webcast formats - to explain why nuclear matters, where the narrative is wrong, and what the industry actually looks like from the inside.

The aptly named Critical Mass Show takes you from the heart of nuclear energy to the frontlines of geopolitics, and dives deep into the trends, catalysts, and power players driving the uranium market.

Through sharp, informed discussions with industry leaders and experts, yours truly, the show's team and its wonderful guests uncover the hidden stories and the big picture dynamics in a space that’s becoming impossible to ignore. 

The show's first three guests include Sama Bilbao y León, Director General of the World Nuclear Association, Ashutosh Shastri, Master Fueller, The Worshipful Company of Fuellers, UK and Lucian Pugliaresi, President of at Energy Policy Research Foundation, Washington D.C.

These conversations are just getting started. They will soon feature several industry experts yours truly connected with at CERAWeek 2026 who will soon appear on the show recorded from its studio in London as its exciting journey continues. So, watch this space on Apple podcasts, Spotify and YouTube, and welcome to the Critical Mass Show folks. It would be a privilege to have your company. 

Sincere thanks also to uranium.io for sponsoring the show and supporting thoughtful discussions in a space that deserves more depth. More musings to follow soon. Keep reading, keep it here, keep it 'crude'! 

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Webcasting for ReachX & Trump's OPEC call

It's been quite a week in the oil market with Brent touching $75 per barrel for the first time in 2019, amid exaggerated long calls reminiscent of Q4 2018, and we all know how that ended. In this backdrop, the Oilholic did his first oil market webcast for independent financial platform ReachX.

The company is working to shake-up traditional financial market research and investment banking services via its technology platform. The idea was born out of creating an unbiased research, information and services hub fit for a post-MiFID II investment and operating environment, and the Oilholic has been involved in its progress since the summer of last year with co-founders Rafael S. Lajeunesse and Olivier Beau de Loménie.

The topic of the webcast was what's in store for the oil market in H2 2019, especially as the Oilholic believes the current set of market fundamentals suggest there's not much further for Brent to go than beyond $75 per barrel, and in fact it is likely to average towards the lower range of $70-75 per barrel this year.

Here's a recording of the webcast on YouTube, which has been converted into a podcast by the good folks at ReachX:

And should you wish to listen to it on SoundCloud; here's a link to that as well.

Away from the webcast, just as Brent hit $75, US President Donald Trump hit it. Ahead of a political rally, the President said he'd "called OPEC" and that oil prices were coming down. Cue a slide on that pretext in this Goldilocks Economy, where crude has little room to go further up. Here are the Oilholic's thoughts in more detail via a Forbes post. That's all for the moment folks, keep reading, keep it 'crude'!

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