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The Vanishing WTI/Brent Spread

Jan 14, 2015 at 15:24 | Nick Cunningham

The spread between two key oil benchmarks vanished for the first time in over a year and a half. On January 13, WTI briefly traded higher than Brent crude,…

EIA’s Short-Term Energy Outlook 2015 and 2016

Jan 14, 2015 at 15:14 | Ron Patterson

The EIA has just released their Short-Term Energy Outlook for January. They have now included their predictions for 2016. Here is what they expect for US C+C. I have…

How Effective Are The Attacks On Islamic State Oil Production?

Jan 14, 2015 at 14:19 | The Jamestown Foundation

U.S. airstrikes launched on August 23 signaled the start of Operation Inherent Resolve. This is intended to eliminate the Islamic State terrorist group and the threat it poses to Iraq,…

Oil Export Ban Slowly Eroding

Jan 13, 2015 at 16:39 | Nick Cunningham

Lost amid all the media buzz over the push in the new U.S. Congress to approve the Keystone XL pipeline are the seeds of a major energy policy overhaul. Attached…

Back To Basics: Why Conventional Drilling Makes Sense in 2015

Jan 13, 2015 at 16:31 | James Stafford

This New Year, an old trend may become a new trend as conventional drilling in North America is once again in the spotlight at a time when oil prices continue…

China Buying Up Latin American Oil

Jan 12, 2015 at 15:52 | Colin Chilcoat

As the world’s number one energy consumer China is enjoying the low prices while they last. Never one to settle however, China is finding still more ways to take advantage…

What Will 2015 Do For Peak Oil?

Jan 12, 2015 at 14:17 | Ron Patterson

The Cornucopians are exuberant, they believe that collapsing of oil prices dealt the death knell for peak oil. An oil glut, they say, is what we have, not peak oil.…

Could ISIS Attack Saudi Oil?

Jan 09, 2015 at 17:15 | Nick Cunningham

What will it take for oil prices to rise? Oil companies have little incentive to turn off the taps, given that low oil prices are providing…

Are The Bakken’s Sweet Spots Past Their Prime?

Jan 09, 2015 at 16:56 | Rune Likvern

This post is an update on total Light Tight Oil (LTO) extraction from Bakken in North Dakota based upon actual data as of October 2014 from North Dakota Industrial Commission…

The Carry Trade Returns

Jan 09, 2015 at 13:50 | Dan Dicker

In 2008, as money rushed out of the oil market and prices continued to collapse, a bottom for oil was nearly impossible to find. But one commercial factor gave a…

When Good News Is Overlooked It’s Time To Buy

Jan 09, 2015 at 13:49 | Martin Tillier

When the general mood in a market is gloomy and the bears have the upper hand, even good news can get overlooked, or rather overpowered. For…

A Failsafe Way to Bet On The Oil Sector

Jan 09, 2015 at 13:46 | Editorial Dept

Another week, another impressive fall in oil prices. There have been a series of psychological thresholds through which oil prices have crashed over the past few months. In the beginning…

Keystone XL Saga Continues, Obama Threatens Veto

Jan 07, 2015 at 17:02 | Andy Tully

Ever since the Republican Party gained control of both houses of Congress, Mitch McConnell, then the Senate minority leader and now its majority leader, has promised repeatedly that approval of…

The Next Decade Will Decide Peak Oil Outcome

Jan 05, 2015 at 16:10 | Ron Patterson

The most attention-grabbing attempts to predict oil futures have come from geologists and environmental activists, who tend to look solely at production. An overlooked doctoral thesis by Christophe McGlade,

US Expands Oil Exports To Lightly Processed ‘Condensate’

Dec 31, 2014 at 10:43 | Andy Tully

Washington has expanded opportunities for US oil producers to export lightly processed crude, known as condensate, despite a ban that’s nearly 40 years old. The US Commerce Department’s Bureau of…

Energy Crisis As Early As 2016

Dec 30, 2014 at 13:20 | Dan Steffens

Low oil prices today may be setting the world up for an oil shortage as early as 2016. Today we have just 2% more crude oil supply than demand and…

Obama Kicks The Oil Industry While They Are Down

Dec 30, 2014 at 13:08 | Nick Cunningham

The federal government is about to issue landmark regulations aimed at slashing methane emissions from oil and gas operations. The Environmental Protection Agency’s regulations could come along with several…

Iraq Could Be Oil Market Linchpin

Dec 26, 2014 at 15:12 | Nick Cunningham

As hard as it may be to imagine, given today’s rock bottom oil prices and abundant supplies, the world may still struggle to bring enough oil online over the next…

BP To Bypass Sanctions, Buy In On Siberian Oilfield

Dec 26, 2014 at 14:56 | Andy Tully

British-based BP is negotiating with Russia’s Rosneft to buy a stake in an oil field in eastern Siberia, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of the talks who spoke…

Low Oil Prices Could Improve Relations Between DRC And Uganda

Dec 26, 2014 at 14:50 | Global Risk Insights

  Tensions along the border between Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Uganda have risen over the last decade,…

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