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Oil Profits Are Fueling South Sudan’s Civil War

Mar 06, 2018 at 16:41 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Just two years after it gained independence from Sudan in 2011, oil-rich South Sudan plunged into a civil war that is still raging today—a civil war that is allegedly funded…

Oil Investors See Renewables As Unattractive

Mar 06, 2018 at 14:01 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Pressured by investors who expect to see higher returns after the oil price downturn, oil and gas companies are finding themselves without much incentive to invest in renewable energy technologies,…

What’s Driving Oil Prices Back Up?

Mar 06, 2018 at 12:45 | Tom Kool

Oil prices saw a modest bump following exchanges between OPEC and U.S. shale producers at the annual CERAWeek Conference. (Click to enlarge)

The Secret To More Efficient Batteries

Mar 06, 2018 at 12:04 | MINING.com

New research published in Nature Communications reveals that manganese has a novel chemical state. According to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, this new state enables a…

IEA Predicts Nightmare Scenario For OPEC

Mar 05, 2018 at 17:32 | Nick Cunningham

The U.S. will supply much of the world’s additional oil for the next few years, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA). Over the next three…

The Truth About U.S. Energy Dominance

Mar 05, 2018 at 17:02 | Kurt Cobb

Much of the media coverage of the American energy industry implies that America has become a vast and growing exporter of energy to the rest of the world and that…

Shell Takes Major Steps Toward Energy Diversification

Mar 05, 2018 at 11:58 | David Messler

Shell has spent the last three years reinventing itself for the energy future it sees in the coming decades. A few years back, Shell was a company struggling to find…

Shale Boom Could Create A Refining Bottleneck

Mar 05, 2018 at 10:32 | Irina Slav

The growth in U.S. shale oil production is threatening to create bottlenecks in refineries, new research from Wood Mackenzie has revealed. The research suggests the United States needs new…

OPEC President: Oil Cut Extension Hasn’t Been Discussed

Mar 05, 2018 at 09:33 | Irina Slav

There has been no talk about extending crude oil production cuts into next year, OPEC’s president, UAE energy minister Suhail al-Mazrouei, said ahead of this year’s CERAWeek. “We feel there…

Trump’s Trade Wars Could Spark A Massive Drop In Oil

Mar 02, 2018 at 17:22 | Martin Tillier

Today, I am breaking with two of my rules in writing these pieces. I generally try to steer clear of politics and to avoid being alarmist or overly sensational. What…

RoboTaxis Won’t Be Taking Over Any Time Soon

Mar 02, 2018 at 17:17 | Jon LeSage

Automakers are making serious commitments to robotic, electrified vehicles of the future - but car buyers haven’t yet bought in. The Center for Automotive Research (CAR), a leading automotive research…

This Major Bank Just Pledged To Invest $122 Billion In Renewables

Mar 02, 2018 at 17:13 | Tsvetana Paraskova

In recent years, the world’s biggest banks have come under increased pressure from investors to adopt specific actions to fight climate change, promote ethical and sustainable financing, and cut exposure…

Could These Discoveries Revive Colombia’s Oil Industry?

Mar 02, 2018 at 17:12 | Matthew Smith

It hasn’t been all plain sailing for Colombia’s oil industry in recent years. While the government remains focused on boosting oil production to kickstart growth in its petroleum dependent…

Turkmenistan Looks To Boost Electricity Exports

Mar 02, 2018 at 17:04 | Eurasianet

With all the fanfare that accompanied the recent start to work on the Afghanistan section of TAPI – the pipeline that Turkmenistan hopes will one day pump its natural gas to…

What Explains The Divergence Between Oil Prices And Oil Stocks?

Mar 02, 2018 at 17:03 | Dan Dicker

These last few weeks have been confusing, even for a 35-year oil trading veteran like me. There are some things I’m recently seeing in energy stocks vis-a-vis the energy markets…

Trump’s Trade Wars Could Spark A Massive Drop In Oil

Mar 02, 2018 at 16:58 | Martin Tillier

Today, I am breaking with two of my rules in writing these pieces. I generally try to steer clear of politics and to avoid being alarmist or overly sensational. What…

Geopolitical Risk Looms Over Oil Markets

Mar 02, 2018 at 16:54 | Editorial Dept

Friday March 2, 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, March 2nd, 2018

Mar 02, 2018 at 16:43 | Editorial Dept

The United States is about to overtake Russia as the world’s top oil producer in 2019, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said, adding this could even happen earlier, before the…

Strong Dollar, Trump’s Steel Tariffs Keep Oil Subdued

Mar 02, 2018 at 16:41 | Jim Hyerczyk

April West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures are set to close about 4 percent lower this week, its first weekly loss since the week-ending February 9. Most of the downside…

Oil Market Sentiment Sours Amid Global Financial Turmoil

Mar 02, 2018 at 14:03 | Tom Kool

Trump’s latest tweet, arguing that “trade wars are good, and easy to win,” didn’t bode with for global equities or commodities, including oil, which was already reeling from the EIA’s…

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