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First Oil Chat

Premium chat & oil news from industry experts

Get access to seasoned commodity reporters and other energy industry professionals in an interactive community led by MT Newswires and offered via ICE IM. First Oil Chat provides breaking oil market news, research and a forum for two-way discussion integrated directly into your existing IM workflow.

With over 50 years of combined experience covering oil markets, MT Newswires’ global energy editors provide members with unique, real-time access to oil market insights, industry contacts and intelligence.

What You'll Get

  • The Oil Trader’s “Help Desk” — real-time access to veteran energy commodity reporters and their network of experts providing critical decision support
  • Interactive information discovery with minute-to-minute coverage of factors moving oil and global capital markets
  • News and research alerts on global supply and demand data, economics, broker research and crude oil producers
  • Global Energy Report (2x a day) — coverage across global supply and demand, geopolitical events and economic activity summaries affecting oil futures and related asset classes. Crude stocks, refining news and inventory reports versus consensus expectations
  • Detailed, timely views from oil trading firms and ship brokers on cargoes and deals done
  • Official data from the U.S., China, Singapore, India, Japan and South Korea joined by analyst reports and statistics from the EIA, CFTC, OPEC, IEA and state-run news agencies Xinhua, TASS and INRA

Interested in a Trial?

  • If you’re not yet using ICE Chat, contact us to get set up: [email protected]
  • To start your free 30-day trial of First Oil Chat:
    • Click Add Contact from the Contacts menu in ICE IM
    • Enter ‘First_Oil_Chat’ in the Username section
    • Choose ‘ICE Chat’ for the Service
  • Or, simply search ‘First Oil’ in the ICE Chat Directory and connect to the First Oil Chat desk contact

Important Disclosures

Trading and execution services are offered through ICE Bonds Securities Corporation or ICE Bonds, member FINRA, MSRB and SIPC. The information found herein, has been prepared solely for informational purposes and should not be considered investment advice, is neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation of an offer to buy any financial product(s), is intended for institutional customers only and is not intended for retail customer use. ICE Bonds offers extended hours trading on ICE BondPoint. Before engaging in extended hours trading, you should consider the points contained in ICE Bonds’ Extended Hours Trading Risk Disclosure, which can be found here.

Fixed income evaluations, continuous evaluated pricing, end-of-day evaluations, evaluated curves, model-based curves, market sentiment scores, Size-Adjusted Pricing, and Fair Value Information Services related to securities are provided in the US through ICE Data Pricing & Reference Data, LLC and internationally through ICE Data Services entities in Europe and Asia Pacific. ICE Data Pricing & Reference Data, LLC is a registered investment adviser with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Additional information about ICE Data Pricing & Reference Data, LLC is available on the SEC's website at adviserinfo.sec.gov. A copy of ICE Data Pricing & Reference Data, LLC ’s Form ADV is available here or upon request.