Venezuela’s Demise Is A Geopolitical Litmus Test For The U.S.
Venezuela’s elections are another step…
IEA: OPEC Must Extend Cuts To Balance Oil Markets
Oil markets are rebalancing very…
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The Single Biggest Bullish Catalyst For Oil
One of the key objectives for OPEC is to bring down inventories, a goal that has been elusive this year. But if the oil futures curve is anything to go…
IEA: OPEC Must Extend Cuts To Balance Oil Markets
U.S. shale is poised to outlast OPEC. It has long been the suspicion of many oil market analysts that the U.S. shale industry was likely too nimble for OPEC to…
Can Oil Sanctions Cripple North Korea’s Army?
In response to Pyongyang’s latest nuclear missile tests, the world is stepping up sanctions on North Korea with bans on its mining, manufacturing, and seafood exports. The latest round of…
The Oil Price Tug Of War
Oil prices remain in a game of tug of war as conflicting news sends both the bears and the bulls to the sidelines. (Click to…
Oil Prices Inch Higher As Libya Closes Crude Export Terminal
The Zueitina oil terminal in Libya has ceased loading cargos as port workers protest, demanding better working conditions, Bloomberg quoted the head of the workers’ union Merhi Abridan as…
Higher Oil Prices Slash Saudi Deficit
The Saudi Finance Minister has announced an annual decline in the budget deficit for the first half of the year thanks to higher oil prices in the period. At…
Is LNG Moving From A Buyers’ To A Sellers’ Market?
When Petronas announced the cancellation of its biggest investment abroad, its US$28-billion Pacific NorthWest LNG project, the news sounded an alarm for the LNG industry, which is already plagued…
U.S. Energy Expenditure Level Lowest In Over A Decade
The EIA reported today that the U.S.’s expenditures for delivered energy totaled $1.127 trillion, or 6.2 percent of the nation’s GDP, in 2015—the lowest since 2004. The decrease was approximately…
U.S. Electricity Sales Projections Continue to Fall
Electricity producers and distributors are in an unusual business. The product they provide is available to all customers instantaneously, literally at the flip of a switch. But the large amount…
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Why Even Long-Term Energy Investors Should Use Trading Techniques
For many investors, the word “trading” is a scary one. It conjures up images of somebody hunched over a keyboard for hours on end, with a huge bank of screens…
