Lawsuits against big oil companies…
Amid efforts to counter climate…
Bearish sentiment appears to be running rampant in oil markets, with OPEC+ production cuts and supply threats from Russia unable to significantly slow the oil price slide.Oilprice Alert: This…
U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures rebounded slightly on Thursday, but the market is still in a position to post a nearly 5% loss for the week. Bottom-picking technical…
1. Can There Be a UK Oil Renaissance?- The new UK government of Liz Truss…
Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict In an unexpected move this week, Albania severed diplomatic ties with Iran over a cyberattack and then searched the empty Iranian embassy, where exiting diplomats had…
As you will be well aware if you are a regular reader of my musings here and elsewhere, I generally favor a contrarian trading style. That comes from years spent…
Moscow is not escalating the war in a way that would change the rules (and there are rules). The rules are that Russia will…
Crude oil prices appear to be set for another losing week pressured by central bank monetary policies and continued demand concern. Brent crude was trading at above $89 per…
OPEC+ may have to make much deeper cuts to their collective oil production targets this winter as a recession looms over Europe as it struggles with a severe…
The long-promised Ukrainian counteroffensive in the south has not yet delivered any breakthrough, but it still signifies a critical turning point for the war: Russia cannot hope to…
Global maritime trade growth is slowing, the latest data shows, in a sign that the global economic slowdown is underway and a recession in major markets could soon…
The Russo-European gas war entered a new phase recently when Russia’s Gazprom announced that they will halt the flow from Nord Stream 1 indefinitely (I have written in…
Russia is selling liquefied natural gas from the Sakhalin-2 project in the Far East to China at a 50-percent discount and still making a profit on it, Bloomberg has
Back in 1965, a region-wide power outage darkened the entire Northeast and suddenly the U.S. electricity industry discovered it had a reliability problem. A scant eight years later,…
Cryptocurrency mining has frequently been lambasted for being an energy-intensive process. Four years ago, Nature Climate Change warned that Bitcoin mining alone could…
Breaking through new technical levels, Brent crude has plummeted nearly 4.6%, below $90, and WTI has plunged to $82, shedding over 5%, as fears of global recession appear…
An age of awareness looks to be upon us. Personal pronouns, the green movement, the swamp, ESG, DEI, CRT, LGBTQ, regressive therapy, equity, defund the PoPo, and now,…
A draft proposal by Brussels looks to intervene in the worsening energy crisis by placing a price cap on electricity generated by non-natural gas power producers, according to…
Three months from now, an EU-wide embargo on Russian crude oil imports will kick in, shutting off almost all shipments of the commodity from Russia to Europe. But…
After years of back and forth, with talks intensifying in recent months, a new Iran nuclear deal now appears to be a distinct possibility. While this could be…
As electric cars become one of the fastest-growing industries of the decade, the electrification of other vehicles is not far behind. While electric cars get most of the…