What you see is what you get. Unless, of course, things change. And so it goes in the highly uncertain world of trying to figure out…
On October 22, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) gave the go ahead to a drilling plan in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A), one of the…
Only 1 percent of the Bakken Play area is commercial at current oil prices based on my analysis that follows. Only 4 percent of horizontal wells…
Libya’s oil production has dipped below 400,000 barrels per day after shipments from a key port were disrupted, according to Bloomberg. The Zueitina port was…
Russia is looking to expand its influence through oil trade. And a little-reported deal this week may give it access to an entirely new part of…
Remember, remember the 5th November, for Guy Fawkes attempted to blow up the UK Houses of Parliament some 410 years ago. Onward to today, and bulls…
In recognition that its campaign is heading for near certain failure, TransCanada hopes to delay the review process of its proposed Keystone XL pipeline until the next administration.TransCanada…
Among all the countries of the world, Iceland has arguably the most interesting power generation system. While the country lacks the beaches, geographic location, and population…
A few weeks ago, the IMF said something that, although it should have been obvious, seemed to surprise quite a few people. Here’s the quote from a recently released study:
At the end of November, delegations from nearly 200 countries will convene in Paris for what is billed as the most important climate meeting ever held.…
A new report from Amnesty International alleges that Royal Dutch Shell did not, in fact, clean up its oil spills in Nigeria despite company claims…
As Ralph Macchio celebrates his 54th birthday (make you feel old? me neither, ahem…), the crude complex has tried to kick higher ahead of the weekly…
These days, I get asked a lot: "Why would anyone do mining exploration right now?" But news this week suggests one of the world's largest gold miners thinks it's a…
The performance of Blood & Oil, a soap opera based on the North Dakota oil boom, is not going well. The show saw its episodes trimmed by ABC amid…
For all of the talk about green energy one fact still remains clear; fossil fuels are going to continue to be used in enormous quantities for decades to come. From…
In this post I present actual Norwegian natural gas production, status on reserves, the development in discoveries and what this results for Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD)…
University of Cambridge scientists have developed a working laboratory demonstrator of a lithium-oxygen battery which has very high energy density, is more than 90% efficient,…
Oil price update and North-American rig count (Click to enlarge) Chart of the Week
It is apt that it is national sandwich day, given yesterday’s first-day-of-the-month onslaught of global manufacturing numbers, and ahead of tomorrow’s return to form in economic…
There's a lot of investment money today looking to buy big copper deposits. And events late last week suggest such investors may have some major…