When the illusion of unending…
Canada faces an escalating threat…
TransCanada has announced has restarted its Keystone oil pipeline today under reduced pressure, after the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration reviewed the company’s repair and restart plans.…
This time last year, Iraq was asking OPEC to be exempt from the oil production cuts because it desperately needed revenues to fund the fight against Islamic State. Iraq failed…
During President Trump’s visit to China, the U.S. signed US$250 billion worth of potential trade and investment deals that would boost American exports to China and Chinese investment in…
The potential result of November 30th’s OPEC meeting is dominating oil trading and oil stocks for the next week, so while we continue to digest our Thanksgiving turkey and wait…
Canada’s oil sands are too dirty to be produced, and should probably stay in the ground. That has long been the sentiment of environmental groups, but it is also gaining…
U.S. crude oil exports to Asia last week hit the highest in two months, and the second-highest on record, at 877,000 bpd, according to data from Kpler. There has been…
There will be an OPEC deal extension—no matter the public tussling between opposing forces in the industry cartel—if the world’s largest oil producers are really determined to end the supply…
The Permian shale play has been attracting so much attention lately it’s started to get a little bit boring. But not for oil investors. The rush to the Permian has…
Dean Fantazzini has provided his latest estimates of Texas oil and natural gas output. His analysis is based on RRC data only. Each RRC data set from Jan 2014 to…
When measuring future global energy growth, two countries rise above the rest in size and importance: China and India. The two countries, world leaders in population size, will be crucial…
The number of oil and gas rigs in the United States rose again this week. The boost in the number of active oil rigs this week brings the total gained…
A day after the American Petroleum Institute helped prop WTI up by reporting a 6.356-million-barrel inventory draw, the Energy Information Administration chimed in, reporting a much smaller decline…
The state of Nebraska just cleared one of the last hurdles for the Keystone XL pipeline, potentially ending a decade-long saga over the 1,700-mile pipeline. The Nebraska Public Service Commission,…
Until a month ago, oil analysts and investors thought a nine-month extension of the OPEC production cut agreement was a foregone conclusion. But as the November 30 meeting draws…
LNG prices have tanked over the past few years after a wave of new natural gas export capacity has come online in places like Australia and the U.S. However, despite…
Argentina has consistently been hyped as the location where the next shale revolution will unfold. The unfolding has taken some time, but progress in shale production is starting to take…
Over the last year, ‘permania’ has become so frenzied that the land rush drove exploration rights prices in West Texas sky high—and along with it, equipment and labor costs. So,…
It’s possible that 2017 may go down as the year when the concept of peak oil demand went from speculation to potential reality, as companies and energy analysts began estimating…
Since the Kurdish referendum in late September, when Iraqi Kurds overwhelmingly voted for independence from Iraq, there has been a drop in crude flows through the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline, as tension…
The number of oil and gas rigs in the United States rose again this week, this time by 8, according to Baker Hughes, ending a short-lived downward trend in weeks…