Tesla is expected to report…
The energy sector has underperformed…
A global shortage in semiconductor chips has been wreaking havoc on diverse sectors, including the tech, automotive, consumer electronics industries, and everything in between. After years of tepid…
The Arctic has been the source of geopolitical conflict and territorial disputes for centuries. From walrus ivory and seal skins starting in the…
In the previous article, I discussed the growing importance of Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) for companies. Perhaps no industry has a…
As oil prices rise and demand recovers, the U.S. oil industry is raising drilling and completion activity and has started to re-hire workers it had dismissed at the…
Recent reports suggest that oil companies in the U.K. have been exaggerating the costs of blue hydrogen projects, as well as the need for their development to decarbonize…
Three giants dominate the global economic system: the EU, United States, and China. Of these three, the Americans are relatively far behind when it comes to centralized clean…
Mexican oil is taking hit after hit this year. First, a deadly fire led to disruptions in production and then output was once again hindered by the anticipation…
While much of the world still depends on fossil fuels, demand for battery metals is surging. Battery metal demand on the rise South African platinum and…
Environmental accountability has exploded in recent years. Climate change has been a dominant driver of this growth. There is broad agreement among nations that rising global carbon dioxide…
Introduction We have done a pretty good job over the past year or so in offering up comparisons between upstream operating companies. We’ve hit the major shale players…
The advance of electric vehicles is set to raise electricity demand as consumers will hook more and more EVs to the power grids to charge them. Energy generation…
With Asia expected to contribute around 90 percent of the world’s growing oil demand over the next five years, we are seeing more and more regional partnerships being…
As oil markets prepare for the OPEC+ meeting, Hurricane Idea took 2 million barrels per day of refining capacity offline, dragging oil prices down.
For anyone still in doubt about climate change, the recent floods and unusual heat waves around the globe will be difficult to ignore. Floods in China
An ETF explosion has taken over the financial market as exchange-traded funds enjoy the lion's share of investment dollars globally--even as investors continue flocking to passive funds and…
Old-fashioned civil war had resumed in Afghanistan by about mid-August 2021. Overt internationalization of the war there had ended, but discreet internationalization of the war returned to the battlefield in…
The European Union's carbon border tax, to enter into effect in five years, was conceived with the idea of leveling the playing field for European industrial producers and…
Texas may soon get one more electricity supplier after Tesla filed an application with the state’s Public Utility Commission to sell power directly to consumers, CNBC reports. Earlier this…
A novel type of graphene with a unique artificial nanostructure can make sodium-ion batteries as high-capacity as lithium-ion batteries, offering a more sustainable approach to energy storage.
Before the United States’ shale revolution, the terms of the world’s geopolitical structure were almost entirely dictated by oil production in the Middle East. The politically tumultuous region…