U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures are trading slightly higher on Friday but are still in a position to post its first weekly loss…
Let the second annexation begin … but it won’t go down like Crimea. In a rehashing of the events that led to Russia’s annexation of…
1. Soaring Production Costs Stoke Fears of US Shale Slowdown- Just as US shale producers were poised to capitalize on high crude prices and bring…
Two months ago, in these very pages, I wrote that I had abandoned my long-term holdings in Tesla (TSLA) and viewed it once again as…
Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict On the natural gas front, tit-for-tat measures between Ukraine, the European Union, and Russia led to a reduction in Russian natural…
U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures are up over 3% for the week with most of the gains attributed to the European Commission’s decision…
Russia-Ukraine War Briefing Next Monday, May 9th, is Victory Day in Russia - cause for a great amount of speculation (and fear) as to what…
1. Disregarding Supply Shocks, OPEC+ Sticks to Conservative PolicyOPEC+ approved another 432,000 b/d increase in production quotas for June 2022, sticking to its conservative attitude…
Until recently, revealing to people that I wrote about and traded in the energy sector invariably provoked the same response. Their jaws would drop, and…
Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict NOPEC legislation is a dangerous provocation. Passed by a Senate panel on Thursday after being bandied about for some 20 years…
Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict - Russian troops continue to withdraw from northern Ukraine, having left the Kyiv region to refocus on the east primarily and…
Numbers Report – April 08, 2022 In the latest edition of the Numbers Report, we will take a look at some of the most interesting…
U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures are edging lower on Friday as traders await the outcome of a meeting of International Energy Agency (IEA)…
Energy Markets on War Footing ExxonMobil’s Montana refinery shut down some units on Saturday after a fire broke out. The cause of the fire remains…
1. US Shocks Market with Largest Ever SPR Release- US President Joe Biden announced the release of 180 million barrels of crude from the strategic…
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine last month, a lot has been said and written in the U.S. about the impact of that and the…
We are starting to see the makings of energy curtailments in Europe - an exceedingly unpopular step that governments would be unlikely to take if…
1. OPEC Exports Underwhelm Despite High Prices Source: Kpler. - The Russia-Ukraine war has taken OPEC heavyweights out of the public limelight, somewhat concealing the…
U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures are trading lower on Friday, but are still up for the week. This week’s rally is being fueled…
Energy Markets on War Footing Russia has choked throughput on a Caspian Sea pipeline carrying crude oil from the Tengiz fields in Kazakhstan to Russia’s…