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Energy / Energy-General

Saudis Lash Out At U.S. In Complete Deterioration Of Relations

Oct 15, 2018 at 09:26 | Irina Slav

Saudi Arabia will retaliate “with even greater action” if the U.S. president goes through with a threat of “severe punishment” should it be proven that Saudi agents killed dissident journalist…

Why Crypto Miners Are Paying Attention To The Permian

Oct 12, 2018 at 17:30 | Crypto Insider

Bitcoin miners have become energy hunters, scouring the world for cheap electricity. When most people think about bitcoin mining operations, they imagine hydro-powered warehouses in Canada or the Sichuan Mountains,…

Disappearance Of Saudi Journalist Could Rock Oil Markets

Oct 12, 2018 at 17:30 | Cyril Widdershoven

In the “World is Not Enough”, British spy James Bond takes on international oil cartels and illegal operators. The fiction of the story is clear to all, but the underlying…

Hurricane Michael’s Impact On Gasoline Demand

Oct 12, 2018 at 17:28 | Genscape

Gasoline demand increased in the Florida Panhandle, southern Georgia, and South Carolina ahead of Hurricane Michael’s arrival to the areas, but repercussions to demand appeared to focus on rack cities…

How A Carbon Tax Would Be Implemented

Oct 12, 2018 at 17:28 | Llewellyn King

There are no solutions to complex problems – except when the problem becomes so complex it must have a simple solution. That is the paradox thrown up by global warming…

Will China’s “Debt Diplomacy” Backfire?

Oct 12, 2018 at 17:27 | Tim Daiss

Angola, Africa’s second largest oil producer, has ramped up its financial ties with Beijing, but perhaps to its own detriment, The country’s state newspaper Jornal de Angola said on…

How Tight Are Physical Oil Markets? Time Spreads Offer Hints

Oct 12, 2018 at 17:27 | Editorial Dept

Macroeconomic concerns pushed oil lower this week as the recent rise in interest rates spilled bearishly into the stock market and ultimately pushed risk assets lower across the board. In…

Libya, Italy, France, EU: Where It All Comes Together

Oct 12, 2018 at 17:23 | Editorial Dept

Libya’s self-fulfilling prophecy Libya is one of those venues where Western oil majors are not only willing to risk insecurity, but they’re hedging on that very insecurity to get better…

Are Oil Majors Returning To Libya?

Oct 12, 2018 at 17:14 | Editorial Dept

The ever-volatile Libya has been hitting headlines the past month, this time around against a quite upbeat atmosphere of rising output. The Libyan NOC chairman Mustafa Sanalla boasted of Libyan…

Indicators To Watch As Oil Stocks Flop

Oct 12, 2018 at 17:11 | Editorial Dept

Energy markets truly came off the rails Wednesday as the Fed chose to make another rate hike, and Treasuries, especially on the short end of the curve, really took a…

Bearish Sentiment Returns To Oil Markets

Oct 12, 2018 at 17:04 | Editorial Dept

Crude prices dropped by the largest amount since July this week, decreasing by an average of 4-5% week-on-week despite a moderate rebound on Friday as the IEA alleviated concerns that…

Oil Markets Take A Bearish Turn

Oct 12, 2018 at 13:47 | Tom Kool

Bearish EIA data and a global stock market crash sent crude tumbling this week, but prices appear to have stabilized, at least for now.…

IEA: Expensive Energy Is Threatening Economic Growth

Oct 12, 2018 at 09:22 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Expensive energy is back and it is threatening global economic growth, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in its Oil Market Report on Friday, joining other organizations like the…

Barclays: $70 More Likely Than $100

Oct 11, 2018 at 17:09 | Nick Cunningham

Oil industry titans are still not in agreement over what to expect from oil prices in the near future, with a wide array of guesses calling for both a spike…

Oil’s $133 Billion Black Market

Oct 11, 2018 at 13:46 | Yale Global

Oil is still the world’s leading energy source, with growing demand, a fluctuating pricing system, and much of its production in volatile regions. The oil market’s value is larger than…

OPEC Turns On The Taps To Counter Iranian Outages

Oct 11, 2018 at 13:15 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Iran’s crude oil production dropped by 371,000 bpd between the second quarter of this year—when the U.S. announced the return of the sanctions—and September, according to the secondary sources in…

Are Energy Majors Under Threat From Big Tech?

Oct 11, 2018 at 13:01 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Audi unveiled last month its first fully electric SUV, the e-tron, at an event on Tesla’s home turf in San Francisco—the electric vehicle industry’s latest step toward mass adoption of…

China Turns Its Back On U.S. Oil

Oct 11, 2018 at 11:50 | Haley Zaremba

Although the Chinese government has not yet gone so far in the ever-escalating trade war as to sanction United States oil, imports are drying up anyway as Chinese buyers shy…

Trump Threatens Iran’s Oil Clients

Oct 11, 2018 at 09:25 | Irina Slav

President Donald Trump said the United States “will take care” of countries that continue to buy Iranian oil after the second round of U.S. sanctions kick in on November…

Hurricane Michael Shuts In 40% Of Gulf Of Mexico Oil Production

Oct 10, 2018 at 15:49 | Nick Cunningham

Roughly 40 percent of the Gulf of Mexico’s oil production and 28 percent of its natural gas production was shut down as of Tuesday, as the region braced…

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