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Energy / Crude Oil

Why Appearances Can Be Deceiving In European Oil Markets

Oct 10, 2014 at 10:33 | Martin Tillier

When markets in general or particular sectors come under pressure, those of us of a contrarian bent start looking around for bargains. Oil company stocks and European stocks have both…

Why Peak Oil Predictions Haven’t Come To Pass

Oct 09, 2014 at 12:49 | Gail Tverberg

On Monday, September 29, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published a story called “Why Peak Oil Predictions Haven’t Come True.” The story is written as if there are only…

Russian Shale Boom Unlikely As Sanctions Force Another Company Out

Oct 08, 2014 at 17:39 | Andy Tully

First, it was the U.S. company ExxonMobil. Then, France’s Total. Now western sanctions against Russia have led Royal Dutch Shell to discontinue its work with Gazprom Neft extracting shale oil…

When Needs Must: EC Greenlights Canadian Oil Sands Imports

Oct 08, 2014 at 17:11 | Andy Tully

Canada’s oil sands have long had a problem: They not only emit greenhouse gases when they’re burned as fuel, but they also require resource-intensive scouring when they’re produced.But…

Petrobras May Get Political Respite Finally

Oct 06, 2014 at 18:02 | Martin Tillier

Over the last few years, stock in the Brazilian state-controlled oil company Petroleo Brasileiro S.A., or Petrobras (PBR), has confounded those who track traditional measures of valuation. The stock has…

Exxon Chief Says U.S. Oil Export Ban No Longer Necessary

Oct 06, 2014 at 17:54 | Andy Tully

Rex Tillerson, ExxonMobil’s CEO, says the ban on exports of U.S. crude oil that’s been in effect for decades is no longer necessary and a lifting of regulatory constraints on…

Weather The Oil Storm For Real Rewards

Oct 03, 2014 at 15:46 | Dan Dicker

It’s just perfect, that I would appear on CNBC’s halftime report for the first time in a year and a half predicting much higher oil prices, and watch today as…

How Islamic State Uses Oil To Fund Its Onslaught

Oct 01, 2014 at 17:47 | Claude Salhani

In a remote area along the Turkish-Syrian border, a line of oil trucks materializes seemingly from nowhere. Quietly, the vehicles line up to purchase oil. The drivers will pay about…

Who Is Buying The Islamic State’s Illegal Oil?

Sep 30, 2014 at 17:31 | Chris Dalby

In June 2014, computer files captured from a courier for the Islamic State shortly after the fall of Mosul revealed that the group had assets of $875 million, largely…

Breakthrough In Oil Sands Waste Treatment

Sep 29, 2014 at 14:45 | Andy Tully

Ultraviolet light is an economical and simple way to clean up the residue, or “tailings,” left over from extracting oil from Canadian tar sands. But now scientists at the University…

Oil Market Fundamental & Technical Analysis – 26th September 2014

Sep 26, 2014 at 09:51 | Jim Hyerczyk

Weekly Crude Oil AnalysisThe short-term picture for November crude oil futures turned a little rosier after prices consolidated for a third week. Some of the buying was related…

Another Western Energy Company Ends Russian Cooperation

Sep 24, 2014 at 16:33 | Andy Tully

ExxonMobil Corp. was the first Western company to bow to Western sanctions against Moscow and suspend offshore Arctic drilling for Rosneft, the Kremlin-owned oil giant. Now another large Western…

Peak Oil: Are We In The Eye Of The Storm?

Sep 24, 2014 at 16:18 | Post Carbon

Ten years ago peak oil was assumed to be a rather straightforward, transparent process. What was then thought of as “oil” production was going to stop growing around the middle…

Dropping Prices and Supply Glut Sends Oil Into Floating Storage At Sea

Sep 22, 2014 at 17:59 | Nick Cunningham

There is so much surplus oil sloshing around right now, some of it is being stored on tankers at sea. It's well known that there is a glut…

How will Libya’s ongoing crisis affect MENA region?

Sep 22, 2014 at 17:44 | Global Risk Insights

As international attention shifts to the Islamic State, many observers have all but forgotten the link between the toppling of Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi, and his one-party state, and the…

Scotland’s Oil Future Will Remain In British Hands

Sep 19, 2014 at 15:58 | Chris Dalby

William Wallace must be awfully disappointed. The Scottish voted to remain in the United Kingdom, albeit in exchange for a very nice care package of extra powers from Parliament.  However,…

Western Sanctions Halt Exxon’s Drilling In Russian Arctic

Sep 19, 2014 at 15:31 | Andy Tully

Western sanctions against Moscow have forced ExxonMobil Corp. and Kremlin-owned oil giant Rosneft to suspend drilling at an offshore oil well in the Russian Arctic.Bloomberg News broke…

Dim Future For North Sea Energy

Sep 18, 2014 at 16:12 | Euan Mearns

On 18th September 2014, Scotland will vote on the following question:Should Scotland be an independent country?Answer YES and the vote is for independence, answer NO and…

Commodities Suffer As Oil And Gas Takes Rail Priority

Sep 18, 2014 at 15:21 | Metal Miner

The rapid pace of energy exploration, for both natural gas and oil, in North Dakota is creating a crisis for upper Midwest farmers. Grain shipments have been held up by…

U.S. Targets Islamic State’s Lucrative Oil Smuggling Operations

Sep 15, 2014 at 14:52 | Nick Cunningham

With U.S. President Barack Obama’s announcement of an open-ended plan for airstrikes on the Islamic State (IS), the U.S. and its allies will need to degrade the power and influence…

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