Energy / Crude Oil

Dec 29, 2015 at 11:57 | Ron Patterson

The OPEC 2015 World Oil Outlook came out a few days ago. They basically produce two outlooks, a medium term outlook to 2020 and a…

Dec 28, 2015 at 17:48 | Nick Cunningham

OPEC says that $10 trillion worth of investment will need to flow into oil and gas through 2040 in order to meet the world’s energy needs.…

Dec 28, 2015 at 17:03 | Arthur Berman

Congress ended the U.S. crude oil export ban last week. There is apparently no longer a strategic reason to conserve oil because shale production has made…

Dec 28, 2015 at 10:41 | ZeroHedge

“Two things become clear in an analysis of the financial health of U.S. hydrocarbon production: 1) the sector is not at all homogenous, exhibiting a range…

Dec 23, 2015 at 16:02 | Gaurav Agnihotri

With swelling crude oil inventories and rising global oil production, oil prices have now fallen below 11-year lows. On Monday December 21, 2015, Brent was trading…

Dec 21, 2015 at 17:06 | Andy Tully

Saudi Arabia increased its exports of oil during October, shipping out more crude than it had in the previous four months, aggravating a supply glut that…

Dec 21, 2015 at 16:51 | Mansour Kashfi

After 37 miserable years of the so-called Islamic Republic (IR) and more than $1.6 trillion of oil income, Iran’s oil and gas infrastructure has become ineffective…

Dec 21, 2015 at 11:46 | Charles Kennedy

The Norwegian oil company Statoil has decided to move forward with a major oil project in the North Sea, one of the few to get the…

Dec 18, 2015 at 17:21 | Arthur Berman

Less than 2 percent of Permian basin tight oil wells are commercial at $30 per barrel oil prices. Sorry about that. I know that many believe…

Dec 18, 2015 at 16:42 | Dan Dicker

The time has come for an end of the year trading round-up – how we did with actual trades and what we can learn for our…

Dec 16, 2015 at 16:53 | Euan Mearns

Every year I have a bet with a good friend on where the Brent oil price will be in December the following year. Last year I…

Dec 16, 2015 at 11:49 | Charles Kennedy

The state-owned Argentine oil company YPF issued a joint announcement with Dow Argentina – a subsidiary of Dow Chemical Co. – to invest $500 million…

Dec 16, 2015 at 10:12 | Dave Forest

Critical development on the international shale scene this week. With one of the world’s largest E&P companies signing a massive investment deal in a play that’s…

Dec 15, 2015 at 16:19 | Nick Cunningham

The Federal Reserve is about to raise interest rates for the first time in almost ten years and it couldn’t come at a worse time for…

Dec 14, 2015 at 10:57 | Charles Kennedy

In its latest monthly report, OPEC revised up its projection for global oil demand growth, jumping 30,000 barrels per day in October. That would put…

Dec 11, 2015 at 15:56 | Dan Dicker

You cannot go long on oil here. But I also think it's impossible to be short. What that leaves us with, as we're trying to trade…

Dec 11, 2015 at 10:24 | Dave Forest

Despite lower oil prices, a number of intriguing trends are unfolding today across the energy industry. That includes the opening of big, new offshore plays (this…

Dec 10, 2015 at 12:36 | Charles Kennedy

Russia is hoping to launch a futures market for its oil benchmark, the Urals blend. According to a Reuters report, Russia has for years wanted…

Dec 09, 2015 at 09:43 | Dave Forest

I described last month how one country on the planet recently bucked the trend of declining petroleum drilling: Ireland, which saw a record number of bids…

Dec 07, 2015 at 16:40 | Euan Mearns

The day of reckoning has arrived for the oil price with the head and shoulders pattern I have been tracking for two months finally being completed…