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Oil Price Rally Hits Resistance

Mar 19, 2019 at 13:18 | Tom Kool

Oil prices have traded relatively flat on Tuesday morning, despite bullish news continuing to mount.  (Click…

World’s Top Commodity Trader Sees Peak Oil Demand Looming

Mar 19, 2019 at 11:19 | Tsvetana Paraskova

The world’s largest independent commodity trader, Vitol, expects global oil demand to peak after 15 years, essentially putting the ‘peak oil demand’ date somewhere in the mid-2030s like other key…

Oil Slips As Alberta Relaxes Oil Production Cuts

Mar 19, 2019 at 10:26 | Tsvetana Paraskova

The province of Alberta is further relaxing the production cap it imposed in January in an effort to prop up Canadian oil prices. Alberta is now increasing the limits…

“Perfect Storm” Drives Oil Prices Higher

Mar 18, 2019 at 16:53 | Nick Cunningham

Oil prices have already hit four-month highs, forcing a range of analysts to overhaul their expectations for this year. “The latest Brent rally has brought prices to our peak forecast…

Why Canadian Oil Giants Won’t Expand Production Capacity

Mar 18, 2019 at 16:44 | Nick Cunningham

The long-chronicled pipeline woes in Canada continue to bedevil the oil industry. Now, major Canadian companies are holding back on upstream production expansions because of the inability to ship oil…

Markets Brace For U.S. Decision On Iran Sanction Waivers

Mar 18, 2019 at 14:23 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Over the past few months, oil market participants and analysts focused on OPEC’s production cuts, soaring U.S. shale output, the U.S.-China trade dispute, projections of slowing oil demand growth, and…

Oil Rises As OPEC Holds Off On Production Cuts Decision

Mar 18, 2019 at 10:07 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Oil prices were slightly up early on Monday as the market was assessing the news that a panel of the OPEC+ allies is recommending that partners cancel a scheduled extraordinary…

Why This Oil Price Rally Has A Limit

Mar 15, 2019 at 14:13 | Nick Cunningham

The crisis in Venezuela threatens to disrupt the global oil market, but OPEC has a much stronger base of spare capacity that offers a “supply cushion,” according to a new…

The Most Important Technical Tool For Energy Traders

Mar 15, 2019 at 14:09 | Editorial Dept

The oldest debate in trading and investing is the relative merit of technical versus fundamental analysis. Most technical analyses are, at their heart, about identifying points at which support and…

Central Asia’s Biggest Energy Challenge

Mar 15, 2019 at 14:04 | The Jamestown Foundation

A major challenge for Central Asia’s oil and natural gas industry has always been how to transport petroleum products from the landlocked region to global markets. That issue resurfaced last week…

Big Oil Has Finally Joined The Digital Revolution

Mar 15, 2019 at 14:04 | Tsvetana Paraskova

The oil price crash of 2014 and the global ‘digitalization and disruption’ drive coincided in a rather bizarre way to push the oil industry to seek cost cuts through innovation…

Is Canada’s Arctic Drilling Ban Hurting Its Oil Industry?

Mar 15, 2019 at 14:03 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Canada is lagging behind other oil producers in tapping its offshore oil and gas resources because of the moratorium on drilling in its Arctic waters in place since 2016 and…

Italy Turns Its Back On Russian Gas

Mar 15, 2019 at 13:58 | The Jamestown Foundation

New natural gas discoveries in the Eastern Mediterranean might be a boon for the European Union’s efforts to move away from dependence on Russian energy supplies. In the current complex…

Saudi Arabia’s Delicate Baku Balancing Act

Mar 15, 2019 at 13:51 | Editorial Dept

OPEC (plus Russia) is meeting in Baku this weekend, and the Saudis are playing a delicate balancing act—not only disappointed in Trump’s less aggressive tactics against Iran, but also disappointed…

Oil Prices Surge To Multi-Month Highs

Mar 15, 2019 at 12:22 | Tom Kool

Growing instability in Venezuela, and the potential of a slowdown in U.S. shale, has pushed oil prices up to multi-month highs this week.

Oil Prices Shrug As Rig Count Continues To Fall

Mar 15, 2019 at 12:21 | Julianne Geiger

The the number of active oil and gas rigs in the U.S. fell once again this week according to Baker Hughes, as oil production fell for the first week this…

IEA Warns Of Looming Oil Market Deficit

Mar 15, 2019 at 10:00 | Irina Slav

Production outages and Iran and Venezuela will tip the global oil market into a shortage during the second quarter, the International Energy Agency said in the new edition of its…

Are Oil Markets Too Tight For Trump?

Mar 14, 2019 at 13:26 | Nick Cunningham

Oil prices jumped to their highest level since November this week, and the Trump administration deserves a lot of the credit. Sanctions on Iran and Venezuela together have combined to…

U.S.-China Trade Deal Driven By Energy Exports

Mar 14, 2019 at 13:25 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Amid signals that the U.S. and China have made some progress in trade negotiations in recent weeks, China has tentatively resumed buying U.S. commodities – something it had stopped doing…

Big Oil Is Backing Methane Regulation

Mar 14, 2019 at 13:18 | Nick Cunningham

The oil industry has suddenly grown concerned about its methane emissions. In Houston, Shell executives urged the EPA to stick with federal regulations on methane. EOG Resources has agreed…

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