One hundred and sixty-eight years to the day after Niagara Falls stopped flowing due to an ice jam, and ongoing skepticism about a coordinated oil production…
Critical and unexpected development with one of the world’s largest natural projects the last couple days. With a major court decision putting the future of the development in doubt —…
Props to Saudi Arabia. Unlike other producers, including U.S. shale producers, it maintained financial strength and flexibility during the last boom. When it began to shift…
For a while there in January and early February investors started to get truly nervous about the energy sector. Everyone knows the energy industry itself is…
Tanzania made its way onto the world energy map beginning in 2011 with a series of consecutive finds; now it’s making history again with another major…
Solar energy is rapidly becoming one of the top choices for new electricity capacity as costs continue to decline and generous public policies accelerate tremendous…
The massive Leviathan gas field was discovered in Israel’s offshore Levant Basin over six years ago, and while it theoretically puts Israel on the global energy…
The oil majors failed to replace all of the oil and gas reserves that they burned through in 2015, a worrying sign for the industry’s future.…
Two hundred and nineteen years after Nathaniel Briggs first patented a washing machine, and crude continues to spin around the $40 level, unable to make a…
There’s been a lot of gloom about the oil and gas sector lately. With many firms slowing or completely stopping project development. But this week news…
The collapse in oil prices is forcing Saudi Arabia to undertake some deep and fundamental changes to its economy, reforms that no amount of browbeating from…
After a decade long honeymoon period between Russia and Turkey, based on the close personal relationship between Putin and Erdogan, relations between the two countries deteriorated…
Just over three months after the authorities lifted the four-decade ban on crude oil exports, the U.S. has actually exported less this year than it did…
After the slow and painful death of Canadian oil exports - helped along by crashing oil prices, a global supply glut, and the languishing Keystone XL…
Most of the charts that follow were produced by Dean Fantazzini and are in barrels of output per day for oil, condensate, and oil plus condensate…
In all the Sturm und Drang over the collapse in commodity prices, we have all rallied around two numbers that we can hang our hats on…
In my book Shale Boom, Shale Bust, I isolated three places one could reasonably invest for the long term to bet on the (I believe)…
Mention the word “coal” to most investors without the word “short” attached in some way and they, understandable and usually rightly, run as fast as they…
Friday, March 25, 2016 In the latest edition of the Numbers Report, we’ll take a look at some of the most…
Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict • No need to worry about any big future push to get all of Libya’s oil back on pre-Gaddafi footing to worsen…