Canada's eviction of Chinese investors…
A rarely used technique called…
The global market for LNG is changing quickly, spurred on by new sources of supply from U.S. shale. U.S. natural gas production surged over the past decade, as fracking opened…
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that the country not only can—but will—become the world’s biggest LNG producer. Although Putin did not specify a time frame for reaching…
Back in early 2011, the Haynesville shale play in east Texas, northwest Louisiana, and southwest Arkansas surpassed the Barnett Shale in Texas as the highest-producing shale gas play in…
Global oversupply in liquefied natural gas has emboldened buyers to push for more favorable contracts. Korea Gas Corp. (KOGAS), Japan’s JERA and China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC), which collectively…
Not everybody attending the Iranian natural gas summit last week in Frankfurt was there for the same reason. While most were gauging the prospects for an opening of major natural…
Nearly a decade ago, I got interested in finding oil and gas fields from space. That odd-sounding strategy came to me while I was living in Canada’s petro-center, Calgary. And…
American energy exports hit a new high in early 2017, contributing 7 million barrels of crude to markets abroad in the first week of February. Meanwhile,
Back from a great trip through Asia. Where one oil and gas contact told me how profits are surging — with Spanish major Repsol recently concluding that natural gas projects…
The liquefied natural gas (LNG) sector is seeing a lot of activity. Spurred by prices in the key Japanese market hitting a two-year high in recent weeks, averaging $8.40/MMBtu…
Two new pipelines to be built over the next 12-18 months are likely to bring down natural gas prices on the U.S. market just when they were starting to rise…
A new transit agreement reached earlier this month between the Georgian government and Russia's Gazprom on how Georgia will be compensated for the transit of Russian natural gas across its…
Trump’s move this week to restart the building of Keystone XL and the Dakota Access pipelines are an indication of the increasing help infrastructure is likely to get from the…
Natural gas prices averaged a little more than $2.50 per mmBtu (million British Thermal Units) in 2016. Those days are over. Prices will average at least $3.50 to $4.00 in…
From the multi-year slump of $1.611/MMBtu hit on 04 March 2016, to the highs of $3.902/MMBtu reached on December 28, 2016, natural gas prices have come a long way. Natural…
American LNG exports for 2016, according to the Department of Energy, totaled 109 Bcf through December, averaging about 0.3 Bcf per day. But contrary to expectations when Cheniere…
For most of 2016, we searched for value in oil stocks, while ignoring natural gas. But while I believe oil stocks will have a great 2017, I also see terrific…
Another tidbit of news on Iran’s emerging oil and gas bid round this week. With that country’s oil ministry saying yesterday that 29 E&Ps from 12 countries have been…
Natural gas markets have experienced a dramatic change in just the past two months, upending forecasts about a protracted period of oversupply. The EIA reported a major decline in…
Natural gas prices are surging as cold weather eats into U.S. inventories, tightening the market much more quickly than many analysts had expected. The blast of Arctic weather in December…
Brazil’s Petrobras and partners produced their billionth barrel of oil from presalt fields this month. Underlining one of the biggest shifts to happen this decade in global crude output.…