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Energy / Crude Oil

Big Oil Has Learned To Live With Lower Oil Prices

Oct 27, 2017 at 13:09 | Irina Slav

Big Oil is seemingly adjusting well to lower-for-longer oil prices, and the deep cost cuts every oil company—big or otherwise—had to make over the last two years have finally started…

Has Gulf Of Mexico Oil Production Plateaued?

Oct 27, 2017 at 13:00 | Ron Patterson

GoM C&C production for July by BOEM was 1746 kbpd and by EIA 1761, compared with, respectively, 1631 and 1634 kbpd (corrected) in June. The EIA number is a new…

Here’s Where The OPEC Deal Gets Sticky

Oct 27, 2017 at 12:29 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Oil prices plunged on May 25 when OPEC and its non-OPEC partners extended their production cut deal through March 2018. At the time, the market had not only expected deeper…

U.S. Oil & Gas Rig Count Falls As Brent Breaks $60

Oct 27, 2017 at 12:28 | Julianne Geiger

As Saudi’s comments regarding the OPEC extension send the Brent Crude benchmark over $60 in mid-day trading for the first time in more than two years, oil and gas…

How Many Barrels Of Oil Are Needed To Mine One Bitcoin?

Oct 26, 2017 at 17:46 | James Stafford

The Bitcoin boom is well and truly underway, and investors are constantly looking for new ways to gain an advantage in this space. The best way to do this, it…

Iraq Seizes Saudi Share In U.S. Oil Market

Oct 26, 2017 at 11:39 | Matt Smith

Wowee, 1985 showed a rich vein of form for movies. It was the year that spawned The Goonies, The Breakfast Club, Spies Like Us, Fletch and Back to the Future. It…

Canada’s Oil Output To Grow For Decades To Come

Oct 26, 2017 at 09:40 | Irina Slav

Despite the Canadian government’s efforts to curb carbon emissions and expand the adoption of renewable energy systems, the country’s crude oil production will only continue to grow in the next…

Russia To Boost Oil Production In 2018 If OPEC Deal Not Extended

Oct 25, 2017 at 11:23 | Tsvetana Paraskova

While the oil market is awaiting what Saudi Arabia and Russia—the leaders of the OPEC and non-OPEC producers part of the production cut deal—will decide on the future of the…

Oil Prices Stabilize After Significant Gasoline Draw

Oct 25, 2017 at 09:45 | Irina Slav

With oil prices at multi-week highs thanks to reports from OPEC and demand outlook, some more good news is always appreciated but the EIA has refused to play along,

OPEC Aims For Smooth Exit From Production Cut Deal

Oct 24, 2017 at 16:55 | Gregory Brew

The members of OPEC are quietly beginning to plan an eventual tapering-off of production cuts, even as the group plans a nine-month extension of the cuts to the end…

BP’s Dangerous Track Record In Alaska

Oct 24, 2017 at 15:07 | Nick Cunningham

BP’s Alaska unit had at least 27 serious safety incidents this year, raising concerns that the oil major has not corrected course after the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill.…

Which Of These 3 Hotspots Will Be The Next Big Thing In Oil?

Oct 24, 2017 at 11:30 | Dave Forest

Lots going on in oil and gas this week. With three ripples in different parts of the world potentially suggesting waves of new opportunity coming for project developers.  First, in…

Expect New Aramco IPO Details This Week

Oct 24, 2017 at 10:14 | Cyril Widdershoven

Aramco’s 5 percent IPO—the world’s largest ever—continues to make headlines. Some analysts claim that the IPO is in danger of failing. Other sources report that the company is considering a…

Norway Unfazed By Peak Oil Concerns

Oct 23, 2017 at 17:15 | Irina Slav

When crude oil demand will peak is anyone’s guess. Forecasts vary widely. Wood Mackenzie says that peak demand is “very real,” and sees a decline of 4 million bpd between 2020…

Will Demand For Offshore Rigs Ever Recover?

Oct 20, 2017 at 16:46 | Irina Slav

Last quarter, offshore drilling rig companies retired more rigs than ever before in a three-month period, according to one energy advisory firm. Embattled Transocean is sending six floating rigs…

Can Trump Drive A Wedge Between Saudi-Russian Alliance?

Oct 19, 2017 at 14:02 | Zainab Calcuttawala

Together, Russia and Saudi Arabia produce a fourth of the world’s oil. The laws of competitive international commodity trading have pit the two petrostates on opposite poles of the…

Russia Goes All In On Arctic Oil Development

Oct 19, 2017 at 13:58 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Neither sanctions nor persistently low oil prices are hindering Russia’s ambitions or plans to develop oil resources in its sections of the Arctic. In April, state-controlled oil giant Rosneft

OPEC Looks To Permanently Expand The Cartel

Oct 19, 2017 at 13:36 | Tsvetana Paraskova

At its November 30 meeting, OPEC will seek to discuss making its current partnership with non-OPEC producers permanent, OPEC’s Secretary General Mohammad Barkindo told reporters at the Oil &…

Trump’s Iran Decision Haunts Big Oil

Oct 18, 2017 at 17:19 | Nick Cunningham

United States President Donald Trump’s decision to “decertify” the Iran nuclear deal probably won’t have an immediate impact on oil prices, but the decision could plant the seeds of problems…

Big Oil Refuses To Give Up On The Barents Sea

Oct 18, 2017 at 16:56 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Encouraged by recently opened areas and potentially huge yet-to-be-discovered resources, oil companies launched a record exploration drilling campaign in Norway’s Barents Sea this year. But as the summer and the…

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