Critical policy shift announced by the U.S. government this week. Opening the door for oil and gas drilling in a place that hasn’t seen any activity for three decades. That’s…
Ten Reasons to Love this Small Company in an Emerging Shale Region That is STILL Economic at Current Oil and Gas Prices Low oil prices continue to slam the energy…
Russia’s economic freefall and isolation from the West has made it increasingly eager to build its relationship with China, even at the cost of lost leverage with Beijing. But new…
As the oil and gas industry deals with a very unfavorable international market environment, Mexico’s current government can no longer ignore the risks posed by the country’s challenging security scenario.…
Cheap gas and oil aren't the only forces disrupting the U.S. electric system. Solar is already wreaking havoc, and large-scale batteries are looming. What Uber and Lyft have done to…
The business world is full of sometimes conflicting theories about what caused the plunge in oil prices during the past seven months, and how low that price will go. But…
How does the economy really work? In my view, there are many erroneous theories in published literature. I have been investigating this topic and have come to the conclusion that…
EIA Inventory build was double expectations at 8.87 million barrels...With Total Crude Supply at its highest since at least 1982...
An important saga for the global copper market is continuing to play out in one top-producing nation. With developments this week showing that the government here…
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In last week’s article I posted a chart from the International Energy Agency’s recent Oil Market Report that shows global demand for refined products catching up to supply by the…
OPEC’s secretary-general says the 7-month-old plunge in oil prices finally may have bottomed out and may be ready to rise again. In fact, Abdullah al-Badri hypothesized that a decision by…
The clock is ticking on the Iranian nuclear deal, but it may all be for naught. A meddling Congress aside, Iran appears to lack faith in US President Barack Obama’s…
New England may avoid a spike in natural gas prices this winter, but the region is becoming increasingly dependent on the fuel, ensuring that price spikes in future years are…
The shale gas game began to cool in China after the latest plunge in oil prices. However, thanks to the recently concluded…
As has become the norm, oil markets reacted suddenly to comments by OPEC’s secretary general regarding the possibility of oil reaching $200 a barrel should investment die off due to…
Yesterday's Russian downgrade pulled yet another raft of "smartest people in the room" to tell investors how screwed Russia is by low oil prices (and yet the US Shale industry…
We're not hearing a lot these days about investment in new petroleum projects. West Texas Intermediate oil prices are once again testing $45. And natgas prices in places like the…
U.S tight oil production from shale plays will fall more quickly than most assume. Why? High decline rates from shale reservoirs is given. The more interesting reasons are the compounding…
Over the course of 2014 the prices the world paid for crude oil tumbled from over $125 per barrel to around $45 per barrel now, and could easily drop further…