There is, of course, a terrible tragedy in the death of Aubrey McClendon on Wednesday, but there also is something larger. Inside the life and business…
Over my time writing here I think I have established certain things. One of them is that I don’t have a lot of time for those…
Friday, March 4, 2016 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…
Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict • Several situations have combined to see a reduction in Iraqi oil sales and exports for February, though…
April crude oil futures are poised to close higher for the week. It wasn’t an agreement to freeze production at January levels that drove the market…
This week’s key figures for the oil and gas industry show that oil has rallied while U.S. production has experienced a slight decline.
One way to tell that a bear market move has run its course, or is getting close at least, is when front page stories on major…
One hundred and thirty-nine years after Emile Berliner invented the microphone, and a strong nonfarm payrolls report has amplified the weekly gain for crude into the…
There has been a major deal announced this week in one of the world’s most critical developing natural gas regions: Eastern Africa. That area has been…
The numbers are sobering. Make that alarming. According to the folks at ARC Financial Corp. in their March 1 weekly macro-economic overview of Canada’s upstream oil…
Despite domestic production declining and demand surging, the EIA reported oil inventories surge by more than 10 million barrels, or more than three times what was…
Kurdistan offers some of the cheapest oil in the entire world, with production costs as low as $1 per barrel. Extracting oil is almost like…
We have been living in a world of rapid globalization, but this is not a condition that we can expect to continue indefinitely.
Anadarko Petroleum Corp. (NYSE:APC) will not only be slashing its capital budget this year by 50 percent and its rig count by 80 percent in order…
Saudi Arabia is seeking a $10 billion loan from international banks, according to Reuters, which represents the country’s first major loan in more than a decade. The Saudi government is…
One hundred and ninety-nine years after the first commercial steamboat route from (the mighty!) Louisville to New Orleans was opened, and the crude complex appears to…
Little-reported but extremely critical data point for the oil and gas industry emerged yesterday. With insiders in the debt business saying that risk levels in the…
Many of the successful companies of the 21st century had two things in common. Firstly, they were visionary. They accurately understood, early on, what the…
Iran’s 26 February parliamentary and Assembly of Experts elections saw strong gains for pragmatic forces, heralding a new openness in Iran and a much better window…
Canada has been particularly hit hard during the downturn in oil prices. A major oil-producing country, Canada rode the commodity wave upwards over the past decade,…