Trump's two primary campaign promises,…
WTI crude found resistance at…
In the context of global liquefied natural gas (LNG) companies, Russia’s number two gas producer (after state-owned Gazprom), Novatek, has always been seen as being unusually reliable in terms of…
There hasn’t been much Permian-centric M&A follow-through from last spring’s buy-out of Anadarko Petroleum by Occidental, (NYSE: OXY). At the time, the sages and pundits were widely predicting an M&A…
Shares in lithium producers soared on Tuesday with the sector getting caught up in the investor enthusiasm for electric vehicle pioneer Tesla. Tesla’s stock value has doubled since December,…
Humans have been harnessing power from the sun as long as we have existed. By eating our photosynthesis-fueled friends in the animal kingdom and other organisms that eat plants, we…
In a world that has been reshaped by Twitter, 24-hour news networks and an endless war between media outlets for your attention and the ad dollars that come with it,…
Oil prices continue to slide as the coronavirus dominates headlines. (Click to enlarge)
U.S. West Texas Intermediate and international-benchmark Brent crude oil futures posted a two-sided trading range this week with a slight bias to the downside as traders continued to assess the…
1. Copper prices rebound- Copper prices rebounded this week, on news that there was some…
Market Movers - The International Monetary Fund issued a dire warning to the oil-rich Gulf Arab states this week: Rein in your spending or risk exhausting all of your oil…
It’s business as—almost--usual in the United States, even after a fifth week of faltering oil prices as the coronavirus outbreak eats away at oil demand and strikes…
As fears about the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus prompted selling in markets around the world last week, oil was one of the hardest hit. Earlier this week, however, when…
Exxon in Guyana: Politics is on Oil’s Side No one is going to rock Exxon’s boat seriously in Guyana. Not with 16 discoveries and stellar first production that went online…
A “green” jet fuel based on a chemical process created by the Germans for the Luftwaffe air force during World War II may have just found a new purpose…
Something strange is happening in the oil world. A string of events and developments that should have pushed prices much closer to three-digit territory has, in fact, had only a…
Over 54,011 airline flights scheduled to, from, and within China between January 23 and February 4 were canceled, according to Cirium data cited by CNBC, creating a ripple effect…
In 2019, the U.S. wind power industry recorded its third record-breaking installation year in a row, with new wind capacity hitting 9.14 GW. To date, there are another 44…
The slowdown in China’s industrial activity and the shutdown of factories amid the coronavirus outbreak is causing the worst shock to oil demand in over a decade, Jeff Currie, global…
Copper has spoken. Its voice is the loudest of the commodities, and it’s not optimistic for the global economy. The coronavirus--which had by the time of writing claimed…
Despite climate concerns and environmentalist backlash against exploration for oil and gas in pristine sensitive regions of the Arctic, companies continue to explore for hydrocarbon resources in the Arctic Circle,…
As the deadline for the U.S. to renew its waiver on Iraq importing gas and electricity from Iran approaches later this month, the three key players in this ongoing geopolitical…