Sometimes geography just works. That’s certainly the case in North American natural gas markets today. To the north you have America—a new natural gas superpower. So…
The importance of security in Algeria should not be underestimated. This is a country that plays an extremely crucial role in the global oil and gas market, with some 160…
December crude oil futures rose this week, driven higher by oversold technical conditions, uncertainty over the Fed’s timing of its plans to taper monetary stimulus and a smaller-than expected rise…
Bottom Line: The European Union appears to be punishing Argentina over the expropriation of Repsol YPF with higher duties on Argentine bio-diesel that will cost the industry dearly.Analysis:…
Bottom Line: Benghazi is heading toward a conflict climax, while myriad clashes in Tripoli are of a less cohesive nature, they are still indicative of the government’s inability to handle…
Bottom Line: China’s optimism as it enters final talks to acquire Petrobras’ assets in Peru is not shared yet with other potential foreign investors as the country fails to make…
Bottom Line: We are back to the drawing board in Mali, and oil exploration in the north should be dismissed out of hand.Analysis: Two French journalists were kidnapped…
Before we start with this weeks news please do take a moment to look at our latest presentation which analyzes various developments taking place within oil & gas…
Intense negotiations are under way in nuclear talks between world powers and Iran, as top diplomats have begun arriving to Geneva to help reach a tentative deal with the Islamic…
The London Metal Exchange is hoping so.The world's go-to market for base metals announced reforms yesterday designed to lift prices across the metals complex.The moves are…
A new series of multi-billion dollar pipeline deals for Turkey and Kurdistan are boldly paving the way for Kurdish oil and gas independence from Baghdad by linking up reserves to…
On November 6 Shell announced it submitted revisions to its Plan of Exploration to the U.S. government, a regulatory hurdle it needed to clear in order to keep Arctic drilling…
Riding higher on a change in management, an asset purge and spending reduction, Chesapeake Energy Co.’s third-quarter results have swung into profit and outpaced expectations. Chesapeake’s Q3…
Boulder, Fort Collins, and Lafayette municipalities in Colorado. As well as Oberlin, Ohio.All of those cities passed moratoriums or outright bans on hydraulic fracking this week, by popular…
Various Syrian rebel groups have announced a spate of mergers and alliances over the past month. In theory, the trend is a welcome sign that the opposition’s extreme fragmentation is…
It is hard not to feel some sympathy for Pakistan’s current energy deficit problems, which are both severe and increasing. The U.S. government’s Energy Information Administration notes in…
One hundred years from now, historians will probably date the beginning of the fall of the American Empire to 1986. That is the year President Ronald Reagan ordered Jimmy Carter's…
The race is on in North America to shield the regional economy from the instability in the Middle East and North Africa casting a shadow over international oil supplies. Russian…
Back in July, Elon Musk released to the public a set of conceptual designs that he and his teams at Tesla Motors and SpaceX drew up for a radical new…
A few years ago, I had an ah-ha moment when it comes to what we as humans would need to do to live in a sustainable manner. It is very…