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Energy / Energy-General

The Aviation Industry Is Backing Biofuels

Feb 28, 2018 at 16:50 | Irina Slav

The International Air Transport Association has set an ambitious goal for its members: transporting a billion passengers on flights using biofuel by 2025. The goal is a demonstration of…

Kurdish-Iraqi Deal Could Restore Oil Production

Feb 28, 2018 at 14:21 | Nick Cunningham

Iraq’s oil production could begin to rise after a tentative deal was agreed to by the Kurdish Regional Government and the central government in Baghdad. The two sides reached an…

Investors Demand A Payday: Do Shale Companies Agree?

Feb 28, 2018 at 13:36 | Lindsay Redifer

While the oil boom continues into 2018, investors who got into shale in time for the jump are anxious about their future payout – a payout that doesn’t seem to…

Trump’s Gas Tax Hike Could Make Californian Fuel Cheaper

Feb 27, 2018 at 17:00 | Irina Slav

No one likes to hear news about higher taxes. Californians got just that kind of news last year, when Governor Jerry Brown signed a 40-percent increase in the state gas…

Is Centrica’s Business Model Sustainable?

Feb 27, 2018 at 14:11 | Leonard Hyman & William Tilles

The UK’s biggest energy retailer, Centrica had another bad year. Earnings and operating profits declined. And since 2015 Centrica’s share price has almost halved. So, what is the problem? Selling…

OPEC Looks To Dial Back Production Cuts

Feb 27, 2018 at 13:06 | Tom Kool

Last week’s surprise drawdown in crude inventories may be the last for a while, as analysts are expecting a reversal in stocks this week.

Crucial U.S. Pipeline In Legal Limbo

Feb 27, 2018 at 11:50 | Nick Cunningham

A federal judge halted construction on the Bayou Bridge pipeline in Louisiana, holding up the last missing puzzle piece in a pipeline network that stretches from North Dakota to the…

U.S. Investors Look To Buy Controversial Rosneft Stake In Citgo

Feb 27, 2018 at 09:33 | Irina Slav

A group of U.S. investors is looking to buy the almost 50-percent interest currently held by Russian Rosneft in refiner Citgo, the U.S. unit of troubled PDVSA. The acquisition plan,…

Is $65 The Ceiling For WTI?

Feb 26, 2018 at 16:56 | Arthur Berman

The oil price rally that began a year ago is at a crossroad. In February, WTI futures fell from a 3-year high of more than $66 to less than $60…

Oil Majors: New Tech Will Save The Industry

Feb 26, 2018 at 16:01 | Irina Slav

Oil and gas is not a sunset industry, and low oil prices are not such bad news at all, BP’s chief of upstream operations, Bernard Looney, said recently. Although…

U.S. Biofuels Policy Overhaul Faces Major Challenges

Feb 26, 2018 at 13:40 | Tsvetana Paraskova

U.S. President Donald Trump has called a meeting to discuss possible amendments to the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) as the powerful oil and corn lobbies continue to clash over biofuels…

Crashing Cushing Inventories Boost Oil Prices

Feb 23, 2018 at 16:54 | Nick Cunningham

Oil prices jumped on Thursday after the EIA reported a surprise drawdown in crude oil inventories, ending several consecutive weeks of inventory builds. The report was the most bullish in…

How The Fed Could Hammer Oil Producers

Feb 23, 2018 at 16:50 | Kent Moors

The bond market is about to enter a phase we haven’t seen in over 70 years… A rising interest rate cycle. A trend that has only been accentuated by the…

Is The Lithium Bubble Set To Pop?

Feb 23, 2018 at 16:42 | Metal Miner

A while back I was called by a journalist at a prominent paper and asked what I thought about the lithium market. Was it another rare earth metals story –…

EIA U.S. Reserve Estimates

Feb 23, 2018 at 16:30 | Ron Patterson

EIA reserve estimates for USA for 2016 have been issued (a couple of months later than usual). The numbers they provide are ‘proven’ reserves of crude, condensate and natural gas.

Increased Interest Rates Could Cause A Drop In Oil Prices

Feb 23, 2018 at 16:29 | Gail Tverberg

Central bankers seem to think that adjusting interest rates is a nice little tool that they can easily handle. The problem is that higher interest rates affect the economy in…

What Explains The Poor Performance Of Oil Stocks?

Feb 23, 2018 at 15:06 | Dan Dicker

It’s amazing – I was so much more comfortable holding oil stocks last year – when oil was trading fifteen dollars lower and more, than I am right now. It’s…

An Energy Stock Set To Rebound

Feb 23, 2018 at 14:47 | Martin Tillier

Regular readers of my ramblings will be aware that I am usually neither a fan nor a follower of conventional wisdom. When an idea is repeated frequently, and seemingly by…

OPEC’s Efforts Are Paying Off

Feb 23, 2018 at 14:44 | Editorial Dept

Friday February 23, 2018 In the latest edition of the Numbers Report, we’ll take a look at some of the most interesting figures put out this week in the energy…

Global Energy Advisory 23rd February 2018

Feb 23, 2018 at 14:36 | Editorial Dept

Canada’s oil sands production will continue to grow over the next ten years despite a shortage of pipeline capacity and several years of underinvestment. That’s what a study from IHS…

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