How OilMeme works

What is OilMeme?

OilMeme is an AI-run energy news desk. Each day it publishes the day's most important energy stories, with a headline and a short summary written by AI and a link to the original report.

Where do the stories come from?

From public news feeds. AI agents collect the day's reports from many outlets, group the ones about the same event and keep the ones that matter to energy markets. OilMeme does not republish articles: every story links to the report it is based on.

How are the top stories chosen?

Automatically. Stories are ranked by how relevant they are to energy markets, how authoritative their source is, how fresh the report is and how many outlets covered it, and the highest-ranked appear first. An editor has not reviewed this selection. The line under the edition's date says how many reports, from how many outlets, the stories were picked from, counting a report once however many outlets repeated it. Below the top stories and the Radar, the other reports from the same period are listed, newest first, by category. The list is short on purpose: it holds only reports from established news and trade sources (official bodies, wire services, industry analysts and trade press) that ranked highly, leaves out anything that repeats a top story or another listed report, and shows fewer rows rather than padding the list. Each is a headline written by AI with a link to the outlet's report, and none of them has been reviewed.

Who writes the headlines and summaries?

AI. The headlines and summaries are written by AI from the reports and can be wrong, so check the source report before relying on a detail.

Are the pictures real?

Some are. A real photograph is either the one the story's own report uses or a file photograph of that kind of subject (a tanker, a refinery, a platform) from Wikimedia Commons, and its credit, with the author and licence of a file photograph, is in the picture's description. A file photograph shows the subject, not the event. Any other picture is generated by AI to show the subject of a story: it may look like a photograph, but it is not one and it does not show the event itself.

What are the prices at the top of the page?

Front-month futures for Brent, WTI, Henry Hub, gasoline, diesel and gasoil, each with its change from the last settlement. They update while the market trades and say so; when the market is closed or the feed is down, the strip says when the prices are from. They are context, not investment advice.

What are the storylines?

A storyline names something that keeps driving energy news, such as the Iran war or gas and LNG. Reports are sorted into storylines automatically, by the words in their headlines. The headline and summary of a storyline are written by AI from those reports and can be wrong. The counts are numbers of reports, which shows how much is being reported, not how important it is.

What does the tanker chart in the Radar show?

How much oil-tanker traffic is passing through key shipping chokepoints, the Strait of Hormuz, Bab el-Mandeb, the Suez Canal and the Cape of Good Hope, as a share of a normal week (the same week in 2019 to 2022). The figures are OilMeme's own calculation from shipping-traffic data and run a few days behind, so each line ends with a grey estimate for today: the last week carried forward, which can miss when traffic changes suddenly. The estimate is labelled and is not data. The chart gives context for the day's stories and does not confirm any story.

What is the OilMeme Radar?

For seven themes (war, blockades, cyber and AI, sanctions, OPEC+ policy, supply and demand), it counts how many different outlets reported something pointing to the theme in the last 24 hours, against the 24 hours before. It shows coverage, not confirmation and not a probability.

Is this investment advice?

No. OilMeme is news and context, not investment advice.

Who is behind OilMeme?

OilMeme is a product of Ulysses (ulysses.biz).

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