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Nigeria Sues Oil Majors Over $12.7 Billion In ‘Stolen Oil’

Sep 21, 2016 at 15:21 | Irina Slav

The last couple of years have been tough for international oil companies operating in Nigeria: depressed prices and a wave of militant attacks on infrastructure in the Niger Delta have…

Why Oil Markets Should Brace For OPEC Disappointment

Sep 21, 2016 at 15:20 | Nick Cunningham

There is a strong possibility that OPEC disappoints the oil markets in the coming days, offering either no production limit or a toothless agreement that may not even be finalized…

Tensions Spike As Kenya And Somalia Battle For Oil Rich Offshore Blocks

Sep 21, 2016 at 15:10 | Zainab Calcuttawala

This week, the International Court of Justice will hear a border dispute case pitting the neighboring – and generally neighborly – states of Somalia and Kenya against each other…

How To Find The Big Winners In Energy Following The Oil Bust

Sep 21, 2016 at 15:02 | Peter Tertzakian

The charts look terrible. In the ruthless court of equity markets, the verdict is clear: The energy business – whether oil, gas, coal, solar, wind, nuclear, clean-tech or no-tech –…

Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Is Heading To India

Sep 21, 2016 at 13:52 | Michael McDonald

Amidst Tesla’s recent bad press, Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk prepares for another big week of news. It has been reported that the Prime Minister of India has given Musk…

Bakken Halts Production Crash

Sep 21, 2016 at 13:45 | Ron Patterson

North Dakota has just come out with their oil production numbers for July 2016. Bakken production was up by 3,046 barrels per day while all North Dakota production…

Self-Driving Cars Creating New Investment Options

Sep 21, 2016 at 13:23 | Michael McDonald

With the push to develop self-driving cars, telecommunication companies are looking to simplify the process for providing the automotive industry patented technology. Self-driving cars will need to rely on…

Ahead Of OPEC’s Meeting, Libya Ups Oil Output By 70%

Sep 21, 2016 at 10:45 | Charles Kennedy

Libya has done the unthinkable: oil production in the war-torn country is actually up substantially in recent weeks, as some idled oil fields came back into operation. Libya’s oil production…

Are Low Interest Rates Bad For Energy?

Sep 21, 2016 at 10:42 | Leonard Hyman & William Tilles

Money today costs practically nothing. A recent study out of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco set the “natural“ rate of interest at about 0.5 percent, down from about…

EIA Boosts Oil Prices With Huge Draw Report

Sep 21, 2016 at 10:27 | Irina Slav

Crude oil inventories last week fell by 6.2 million barrels to 504.6 million barrels, the EIA reported, a day after the American Petroleum Institute estimated inventories had dropped…

Did The World’s Biggest Oil Company Boost Its Reserves Artificially?

Sep 21, 2016 at 09:38 | Dave Forest

A very important issue just emerged in the oil and gas world. Driven by an investigation from some of the biggest prosecutors in America. Looking at how the world’s largest…

Long Term Consequences Of The Oil Price Crash

Sep 20, 2016 at 17:03 | Gregory Brew

The World Energy Investment study released by the IEA on September 14 confirmed what analysts have been prophesying for months: the current decline in oil-and-gas investment is the biggest…

Oil Industry No Longer Discovering Oil, Only Growing Through M&A

Sep 20, 2016 at 16:27 | Nick Cunningham

It is becoming increasingly difficult for the oil majors to discover new sources of oil. The industry is in a state of crisis and could be at a turning point.…

Oil Is Likely To Remain Below $50 A Barrel In The Near Future

Sep 20, 2016 at 16:18 | Rakesh Upadhyay

Barring the sentimental uptick on an expectation of a production freeze in Algiers, the fundamentals of oil seem to be pointing towards another leg down. The International Energy Agency…

OPEC Output Freeze Deal To Last One Year, Secretary-General Says

Sep 20, 2016 at 16:07 | Zainab Calcuttawala

The terms of a potential deal within the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) may bind member countries for one year, according to comments by the bloc’s secretary-general on Tuesday.…

Natural Gas Producers In Colorado Have A Problem

Sep 20, 2016 at 14:30 | Irina Slav

Natural gas producers in the state of Colorado have a problem. It’s not a problem that’s unique to them, but it’s potentially more serious than the problem encountered by frackers…

Oil Under Fire As OPEC Head Sees No Deal

Sep 20, 2016 at 13:37 | Evan Kelly

Oil prices dived on Monday after OPEC Secretary General Barkindo downplayed a potential output freeze deal, but rebounded slightly on Tuesday morning.…

Oil Prices Rebound On Falling Gasoline Futures

Sep 20, 2016 at 11:11 | Matt Smith

  One hundred and thirty-one years after the birth of the mighty Jelly Roll Morton, the crude complex has got the blues once more. Prices moved lower initially but spiked…

Frack Sand: The Unsung Hero Of The OPEC Oil War

Sep 19, 2016 at 16:09 | Simon Harlow

The late-2014, Saudi-initiated oil-price war may have taken the ‘boom’ out of the US shale industry as it seriously threatened OPEC market share, but Saudi victory has been…

Oil Investment Crash Could Continue For Another Year

Sep 19, 2016 at 15:45 | Irina Slav

Investment in upstream operations in the oil and gas industry shrank by a quarter last year and is expected to continue shrinking this year by another 24 percent.…

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