Energy / Crude Oil

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Feb 23, 2015 at 17:37 | Ron Patterson

Texas has released Oil & Gas Production Data Query with its (incomplete) production numbers for December 2014. The numbers were quite surprising. The last data…

Feb 20, 2015 at 16:01 | Robert Rapier

By now you have probably heard that a CSX (NYSE: CSX) train carrying Bakken crude from North Dakota’s shale oil fields derailed and caught fire. The…

Feb 20, 2015 at 14:48 | Dan Dicker

EOG Resources, despite their first miss in 8 quarters, has proven again it is best of breed of the shale players with its declared strategy for…

Feb 20, 2015 at 14:04 | Editorial Dept

Introduction Legal proceedings dealing with the disastrous Deepwater Horizon blowout in April 2010 are nearing an end, with BP (NYSE: BP) likely on the hook for…

Feb 19, 2015 at 16:45 | ISN Security Watch

How can Venezuela use its vast oil reserves to enhance its economic security and become a major player in global energy markets? Samir Tata thinks that…