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Big Oil Grows Bolder in Transition Pushback

Big Oil Grows Bolder in Transition Pushback

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Harold Hamm Dismisses IEA Shale Prediction

Mar 11, 2015 at 18:03 | Thomas Miller

It might be discussed over coffee, at the gym, or when a group of friends gather on a Friday night. Analysts write about it, pundits prognosticate…

Barrage Of Lobbying On New Oil Train Rules

Mar 11, 2015 at 11:05 | Charles Kennedy

After a slew of oil train derailments over the past month, the Obama administration is under assault…from lobbyists that is. A barrage of lobbying has descended…

Deciphering The Latest Rig Count Data

Mar 09, 2015 at 17:13 | Arthur Berman

The main take-away from this week’s rig count is that everything is on track for lower U.S. oil production by mid-year. The weekly changes vary but…

Two Trains Carrying Crude Derailed, Exploded, In The Past Week

Mar 09, 2015 at 11:09 | Charles Kennedy

Another day, another oil train derailment. This time a train derailed in Northern Ontario on March 7 and caught fire, spilling crude into a nearby…

Don’t Chase The Oil Trade Yet

Mar 06, 2015 at 14:12 | Dan Dicker

A bit of a conundrum going on in oil these days, as money continues to pour into energy companies and their bonds, mostly through fully subscribed…

Why This MLP (And Others) Represents A Value Trap

Mar 06, 2015 at 14:04 | Martin Tillier

After a tumultuous period for energy investors it is beginning to look as if some degree of calm and logic is returning. WTI crude oil has…

Congress Facing Huge Pressure To Lift Oil Export Ban

Mar 05, 2015 at 17:20 | Nick Cunningham

A lobbying blitz is underway to scrap the decades old ban on crude oil exports from the United States. Originally implemented during price spikes in the…

Obama Called Out On Keystone Lies

Mar 05, 2015 at 16:41 | Robert Rapier

I will preface this article with my standard disclaimer on the Keystone XL Pipeline project: I have no vested interest in the pipeline either way. My…

Three Reasons Why US Shale Isn’t Going Anywhere

Mar 04, 2015 at 17:38 | Thomas Miller

Have you ever noticed that during extreme economic cycles, when trends are roaring on the upside, or conversely crashing back down to earth, there often appears…

New Tech Could Greatly Improve Pipeline Safety

Mar 04, 2015 at 17:03 | Climate Progress

Credit: Shutterstock Transporting oil via pipeline is a risky business, especially if you’re doing it underwater. But…

Oil Majors Balk At Mexican Offshore Proposals

Mar 03, 2015 at 16:51 | Nick Cunningham

The Mexican government has unveiled much-anticipated offers for offshore acreage in the Gulf of Mexico for oil exploration. In this second phase of “Round One” auctions,…

Why Value Per Barrel Is Such A Lousy Metric

Mar 03, 2015 at 16:32 | Steve Brown

Value per barrel is a completely hopeless way of putting a price on an oil company or project; but (as with democracy and political systems) unless…

US Will Never Gain Oil Market Crown Says IEA Head

Feb 27, 2015 at 15:15 | Andy Tully

No matter how much oil the United States produces over the next few years, it will never become the next Saudi Arabia in the global oil…

The Two Great Survivors In Offshore

Feb 27, 2015 at 13:43 | Dan Dicker

Thursday morning saw a tremendous spike in share prices of the two biggest deepwater drilling rig owners, Transocean (RIG) and Seadrill (SDRL). After so many months…

How Much Crude Oil Do You Consume On A Daily Basis?

Feb 26, 2015 at 16:37 | Colin Chilcoat

Oil. The commodity. We know what it’s worth – at least we thought we did – but what does a barrel of the black stuff get…

Bakken Decline Rates Worrying For Drillers

Feb 26, 2015 at 16:02 | Ron Patterson

I have been supplied an Excel spreadsheet of all North Dakota wells back to 2006, thanks to Enno Peters and Dennis Coyne. I only used the…

Alaska To Build A State-Owned Gas Pipeline?

Feb 24, 2015 at 17:16 | Nick Cunningham

The state of Alaska is considering a more aggressive approach to oil and gas development in order to make up for its collapsing revenue. Alaska relies on oil and gas…

Roman Abramovich Invests $15M In New US Fracking Technology

Feb 23, 2015 at 18:22 | James Stafford

Are the Russians coming to Texas riding the tailwinds of fracking? That depends on who you ask, as some believe Russian forces were behind the anti-fracking…

The Easy Oil Is Gone So Where Do We Look Now?

Feb 23, 2015 at 18:04 | Andrew Topf

In 2008, Canadian economist Jeff Rubin stunned the oil market with a bold prediction: With the world economy growing at 5 percent a year, oil demand…

Recent “Bomb Trains” Expose Regulatory Failures

Feb 23, 2015 at 17:54 | Nick Cunningham

The latest oil train derailments could force the federal government to tighten the regulatory screws further than they had planned. The train disasters in Ontario and…

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