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• China Eyes 30 "New Silk Road" Nuclear Reactors By 2030

  Published 25 June 2019 | viewed 19,087 times

  A senior Chinese official and former chairman of the state-owned China National Nuclear Corporation, Wang Shoujun, said that the country needs to give more support to its…

• Chinese Rare Earth Exports Tumble As Trade War Accelerates

  Published 10 June 2019 | viewed 50,507 times

  China, the world’s largest producer and exporter of rare earths elements, sharply reduced its overseas shipments of the critical product in the first five months…

• U.S. Scrambles To Find Alternatives For Chinese Rare Earth Metals

  Published 05 June 2019 | viewed 54,009 times

  With Beijing making louder noise by the day about using rare earth metals as a "nuclear" retaliation option in trade war with the US, Washington…

• $1 Billion In Iranian Crude Is Stuck At This Chinese Oil Hub

  Published 01 May 2019 | viewed 17,571 times

  It's no secret that Beijing has chafed at American audacity to try and dictate whom Chinese refineries can and can't buy oil from. And in…

• The ‘CIA Man’ In Libya Securing Oil Supply

  Published 21 April 2019 | viewed 20,446 times

  In a sharp reversal of longstanding US policy which recognizes only the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli as the legitimate authority over…

• Aramco’s Mega Debt Deal Is A Raging Success

  Published 08 April 2019 | viewed 13,955 times

  Just a day after the Saudis allegedly threatened the hegemony of the almighty petrodollar, Saudi Aramco began the sale of its first-ever dollar bonds with an order-book of…

• Cloud Peak On Brink Of Collapse After Bad Coal Bet

  Published 19 March 2019 | viewed 30,619 times

  Cloud Peak Energy made a bet a little more than a decade ago that the U.S. power sector was still going to see coal as…

• Has The U.S. Lost The Nordstream 2 Battle?

  Published 18 March 2019 | viewed 16,946 times

  The Nordstream 2 pipeline represents the last stand of U.S. influence over the internal affairs of Europe. Once finished it will stand as a testament…

• Elon Musk Reverses On Tesla Price Cuts

  Published 13 March 2019 | viewed 15,208 times

  The constant fire drill that is Tesla's business model continued for yet another day as Elon Musk has now admitted that Tesla made a mistake in…

• Empty Supertankers Speak Volumes About The Oil Market

  Published 25 February 2019 | viewed 17,382 times

  As the U.S. battles with its OPEC+ rivals over the direction of global oil prices (Trump wants to keep oil prices subdued, while Saudi Arabia…

• Venezuelan Oil Crisis Could Lead To Pirates In The Caribbean

  Published 31 January 2019 | viewed 14,733 times

  President Trump's newest sanctions attempting to curb some $11 billion of crude exports from Venezuelan state-oil company PDVSA (or Petroleos de Venezuela S.A.) to the United States this…

• Israel Aims To Become An Energy Export Hub

  Published 19 January 2019 | viewed 17,664 times

  Israel has confirmed it is in extensive talks with Egypt to build a new sub-sea natural gas pipeline between the two countries as part of a previously agreed $15…

• Oil Enters Bull Market As Shorts Are Wiped Out

  Published 10 January 2019 | viewed 43,573 times

  After crude suffered a near record, 44% plunge in the fourth quarter, one which left commodity funds reeling and both OPEC and oil exporting nations…

• Oil Tanker Firms Scrap Most Ships In Three Decades

  Published 01 January 2019 | viewed 24,143 times

  Companies around the world have scrapped a record number of large crude tankers in 2018. About 100 vessels of the industry’s main crude carriers have been sent to India and Bangladesh for demolition, according…

• Vanadium Spikes On New Chinese Regulations

  Published 29 December 2018 | viewed 46,757 times

  The global scramble for a little-known metal called vanadium is officially underway. The metal, which when used in small amounts can help strengthen steel significantly,…

• Turkey Stands Firmly Against U.S. Sanctions On Iran

  Published 25 December 2018 | viewed 34,855 times

  Following Wednesday's unexpected and dramatic full and "immediate" withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Syria, Turkey has announced it will not play ball on Iran…

• Iran Threatens To Close Key Oil Choke Point

  Published 04 December 2018 | viewed 25,132 times

  Here we go again: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has once again threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz, which is vital to up to one-third of all global oil…

• Crude Fell 23% In October, Will Stocks Follow?

  Published 11 November 2018 | viewed 32,233 times

  The near WTI futures price is down 23 percent since peaking on October 3rd as traders front ran the Iranian oil sanctions, which went in…

• Iran’s Ghost Tankers Are Slipping Through The Cracks

  Published 07 November 2018 | viewed 14,411 times

  In anticipation of the U.S. sanctions against Iranian oil exports, which were reimposed by the Trump Administration on Monday (along with additional sanctions on everything…

• Goldman Sachs: This Is The Next Big Risk For Oil

  Published 15 October 2018 | viewed 22,993 times

  Echoing commentary published here during the weekend, overnight Goldman's chief commodity Jeffrey Currie repeated his recommendation to overweight allocation to oil to "hedge against increased…