Energy / Energy-General

Oct 23, 2020 at 11:25 | Editorial Dept

1. Demand stalls on COVID resurgence - “We think that the oil market would mount…

Oct 23, 2020 at 11:23 | Editorial Dept

Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict - ISIS is calling on its supporters to attack Westerners and oil pipelines and economic infrastructure in Saudi Arabia, based on a recorded message carried by…

Oct 23, 2020 at 11:20 | Editorial Dept

I have said and written many times, in many different contexts, that one of my core investing beliefs is that politicians have a lot less effect on the market than…

Oct 23, 2020 at 11:18 | Editorial Dept

Peace in the Middle East may be fostered by natural gas, beginning with Israel's new-found energy leverage, but that peace will simply be shifted to a war of different alliances…

Oct 22, 2020 at 16:22 | Matthew Smith

Venezuela, once Latin America’s largest oil producer and a founding member of OPEC, has seen its economically vital oil industry collapse triggering one of the worst economic and…

Oct 22, 2020 at 16:04 | Haley Zaremba

The phrase “peak oil” has been getting a lot of airtime in the media lately. One headline scoffs at the idea of peak…

Oct 22, 2020 at 10:59 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Following the biggest daily slide in three weeks on Wednesday, oil prices rose by more than 2 percent on Thursday morning after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi instilled hope in the…

Oct 22, 2020 at 09:34 | Tsvetana Paraskova

U.S. gasoline demand is weakening, prompting refineries to additionally cut capacity utilization and crude processing in a sign that resurging coronavirus cases are derailing fuel demand recovery. According to this…

Oct 21, 2020 at 16:55 | Alex Kimani

The plastics and petrochemicals industry could, in an ironic twist, get a boost from a new technology that scientists say can turn plastic waste into the holy grail of hydrogen…

Oct 21, 2020 at 13:47 | Irina Slav

When the coronavirus first spread around the world, emissions-tracking organizations reported good news: the drop in industrial activity and oil and gas drilling had resulted in lower emissions of a…

Oct 21, 2020 at 13:45 | Haley Zaremba

There is a war going on. And no, it’s not the one you think. This is a war against energy efficiency. The attack is on two fronts: a…

Oct 21, 2020 at 11:11 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Oilfield services provider Baker Hughes (NYSE: BKR) reported a loss for the third quarter, like its competitors Schlumberger and Halliburton, amid lower demand for drilling services and equipment after…

Oct 20, 2020 at 17:39 | Matthew Smith

While the deeply impoverished South American country of Guyana is attracting the lion’s share of attention when it comes to oil, it is…

Oct 20, 2020 at 15:08 | Irina Slav

Earlier this month, Canada’s federal government confirmed plans to ban several single-use plastic items by the end of next year as part of…

Oct 20, 2020 at 12:24 | Josh Owens

Chart of the Week

Oct 20, 2020 at 09:59 | Alex Kimani

With the U.S. presidential elections just two weeks away, the U.S. energy sector is facing one of those nail-biting moments where nobody seems to agree on what the…

Oct 20, 2020 at 09:02 | Irina Slav

Just a day after ConocoPhilips announced it will buy Concho Resources, another U.S. oil major was reported to be in talks to buy a fellow driller. Pioneer Natural Resources is…

Oct 19, 2020 at 18:17 | Cyril Widdershoven

The OPEC+ member countries are on the brink of a financial crisis if the latest assessments of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are accurate. The IMF has presented…

Oct 19, 2020 at 15:57 | Simon Watkins

Following the end on the 18th of October of the 13-year United Nations’ embargo on Iran buying or selling weapons, the roll-out of the military component of the 25-year…

Oct 19, 2020 at 12:42 | Irina Slav

In a year marked by huge spending cuts across the oil and gas industry amid urgently revised budgets and slashed investments, some analysts are now expecting a light…