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Drilling Deep: recapping what happened at OPEC, and Scopelitis looks at the coming year

· Wednesday, December 11, 2019

What does the outcome of last week’s OPEC meeting mean for the price of fuel in 2020? Podcast host John Kingston shares his view as well as wondering whether we’re ever going to see a market reaction to IMO 2020. Also, we look at some of the biggest news events likely to hit the trucking sector in 2020 with Dave Osiecki, the president and chief executive officer of Scopelitis Transportation Consulting. His perspectives have a Washington flavor to them and he’ll discuss the regulatory landscape.

John Kingston

John has an almost 40-year career covering commodities, most of the time at S&P Global Platts. He created the Dated Brent benchmark, now the world’s most important crude oil marker. He was Director of Oil, Director of News, the editor in chief of Platts Oilgram News and the “talking head” for Platts on numerous media outlets, including CNBC, Fox Business and Canada’s BNN. He covered metals before joining Platts and then spent a year running Platts’ metals business as well. He was awarded the International Association of Energy Economics Award for Excellence in Written Journalism in 2015. In 2010, he won two Corporate Achievement Awards from McGraw-Hill, an extremely rare accomplishment, one for steering coverage of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster and the other for the launch of a public affairs television show, Platts Energy Week.