New technologies have revolutionized the oil industry but they also seem to have created a bizarre vulnerability. A new chart released Monday by ARC Financial, a Calgary-based energy investment…
Talks are resuming in Vienna over Iran’s nuclear program between Iran and the P5+1 – China, France, Russia, the U.K., the U.S. and Germany. The interim deal agreed…
Following the popular uprising that saw the overthrow of the country’s dictator, Libya had everything going for it. Or so many Libyans thought.It had the natural resources to…
German power giant RWE has announced plans to sell its oil and gas unit Dea to Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman’s L1 Energy in a $7.1 billion deal, as European…
The long, hard winter in the United States has kept demand for gasoline lower than usual, though drivers have still seen an increase in price nearly every day for more…
North Dakota’s local authorities have brought attention to what they are calling the potentially largest illegal oil waste dumping case in the state’s history after a discovery in an…
Russia purportedly intervened in Crimea to protect ethnic Russians from neo-Nazi extremists that Moscow claims have infiltrated the transitional government in Kiev. The results of the 16 March Crimean referendum…
Everyone knows that when a potential employer makes a job offer, the salary or wage he or she proposes isn't what you'll be taking home. What you'll take home is…
There's an eerie silence in the coal market right now.Trading sources like Platts are reporting that coal transactions globally have suddenly gone very quiet. At least in certain…
According to Reuters, Crimea may nationalize oil and gas assets within its borders belonging to Ukraine, and sell them off to Russia. Crimea’s Deputy Prime Minister hinted at the…
Canadian Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver said his country is on the verge of becoming an energy superpower. While the United States mulls its options for energy hegemony, a recent…
A persistent warning light is flashing for U.S. electric utilities. The utilities -- big and small, for- and not-for-profit -- are facing serious disruptive technology. The old business models are…
Norway is Western Europe's largest oil producer and exporter, the world's second largest natural gas exporter after Russia, ranking fourth in world natural gas production and is an important supplier…
A US federal judge ruled Tuesday in favor of Chevron in a record $19 billion-dollar judgment against the company for contaminating Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest. A US district judge…
I am, in general, optimistic about alternative energy in all of its many forms. While it may be a long way off, eventually human kind will have to find alternatives…
It is with incredible equanimity that the media has digested the announcement of a 5 million barrel ‘test’ release from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve on Wednesday, but the market certainly…
Malta, in the heart of the Mediterranean, hasn’t made that one major find to make commercial extraction viable just yet, but it’s only a matter of time--and the low-level security…
The Insider’s weekly run-down of critical figures and happenings from around the energy world.1970. Last year when Australian oil production was lower than the level for 2013—which came…
As Israel takes its newly earned place among the world’s gas exporters, we are focusing this week on the Levant Basin region, where there is a flurry of interest and…
With all the talk about using US natural gas exports as a weapon to fight Russian aggression in Ukraine, what no one’s asking is how this liquefied natural gas (LNG)…