Africa’s biggest oil producer, Nigeria,…
Javier Blas analyzes the impact…
U.S. shale continues to inch down each week – the EIA’s latest weekly estimate shows a decline of 16,000 barrels per day in the last…
India is in the process of surpassing China as the world’s most important country when it comes to analyzing energy markets. India’s consumption of various commodities…
In the past month alone, two major events unfolded in the Algerian oil and gas sector that will in many ways shape the industry risk outlook…
After staging a 50 percent rally between February and March, oil prices have bounced around, moving up or down on a given day depending on the news cycle. The persistent…
In late September, during the peak of fall borrowing base redetermination, many oil and gas companies got their first glimpse of just how bad their liquidity would get when, as…
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.…
Did U.S. investors complete the U.S. E&P’s revolutionary transformation of the global oil market at the end of February? Very possibly, yes. At a time when…
Deciding on what to do about oil investments is not easy under the best of circumstances right now. Ask ten investment experts where oil is…
Petrobras reported a record loss for the fourth quarter, a horrendous performance that raises questions about the company’s ability to handle its mountain of debt. The state-owned Brazilian oil company
One of the biggest oilfields in China, Daqing, has slipped into a loss of around $700 million over the first two months of this year, according…
The U.S. horizontal land rig count fell 6 to 369 and the total land rig count fell 4 to 446. Tight oil rigs dropped 3. The Bakken decreased 1, the…
Is fracking the way forward? The answer of course depends on how you define forward, and further, if that path is a straight line. Consider the…
Senegal’s energy sector has recently got a huge boost after U.S. and UK companies announced oil and gas findings off the coast of the West African…
One of the biggest stories in offshore oil and gas recently has been a potential opening of the U.S. Atlantic to drilling. With lawmakers having
All charts are through February 2016 The OPEC Monthly Oil Market Report just came out. The charts are “Crude Only” production and do not…
Total U.S. land rig count fell 13 to 450 rigs and horizontal land rig count fell 14 to 375 rigs. Tight oil plays lost 10 net…
Shale wells pump out a lot more oil right up front, and deplete much faster than conventional wells. It’s a bit of technical mathematics that doesn’t…
Quite simply, the Saudis want to maintain their market share, but their means to control that are dwindling. The whole internet is jam-packed with analysis portraying…
France’s Total SA is searching for an “elephant” oil field off the coast of Uruguay. Uruguay does not have much of an offshore oil industry. But…
In 2000, Canadian miner Goldcorp changed its fortunes through a unique strategy: giving away its proprietary technical data. Dubbed the “Goldcorp Challenge”, the firm made all…