The U.S. upped the ante…
Several big oil executives at…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Credit: Shutterstock Transporting oil via pipeline is a risky business, especially if you’re doing it underwater. But…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…