And the crude complex is like a bruised prize fighter this morning, trying to get up off the canvas after being knocked down once again. Prices…
I wrote two weeks ago about substantial production cuts coming in platinum. And now it looks like the situation is about to get more dire. That's according to a…
Recently, I wrote on these pages that a remarkable turnaround was taking place in the President’s fortunes. It’s an impressive display of rising from the…
Russia has publicly touted an array of natural gas export projects over the past year, a web of pipelines that would connect Russian gas to some…
Worldwide oil prices are subject to quite a bit of volatility and are often affected by political disputes and controversies. When we consider these facts, in…
The portable energy options market has been one of the most disappointing areas of the green tech space. Millions of dollars have been poured into the…
The outlook for Canada’s oil sands is pretty grim, but it just got hit with an unexpected blow. An outage at a Midwest refinery could lead…
A couple of critical data points are about to drop on the energy market, based on reports this week. The most immediate is in the natural…
Third time is a charm as China has reset its currency peg for a third day on the trot. The law of diminishing returns means markets…
Things will get better because they can’t get worse. We’re at or near the bottom. Better times ahead.But you’d never know that based on oil prices or the…
The energy storage market has become the most critical aspect for renewables such as solar and wind power as it could solve the major issue of…
The IEA, OPEC, and EIA released new monthly reports for August, offering the latest snapshot into the oil markets. The main takeaway in the IEA…
We all know generally how today’s economy works:Figure 1 Our economy is a networked system. I have illustrated it as being…
One of the great ironies of the oil crash has been the inability of economists and financial commentators everywhere to decide if the crash is
First it was a stock market meltdown, now it’s a weakening currency. China continues to present significant risks to the oil market. On August 11, China…
The uranium sector has been waiting a long time for this week. When one of the world's most important markets for the metal has finally come…
In the last quarter of 2014, in the face of possible oversupply, Saudi Arabia abandoned its traditional role as the global oil market’s swing producer and…
The EIA Short Term Energy Outlook (STEO) published today reports that world oil supply decreased 130,000 bpd and demand increased 380,000 bpd in July compared to…
It has been several years in the making, but Japan is finally returning to nuclear power. Although Japan won’t turn its reactors back on en masse,…
With West Texas Intermediate (WTI) and Brent close to their January 2015 lows some readers are wondering how these lows compare with historic lows when…