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The Winners And Losers Of The Latest Commodity Rally

Mar 01, 2019 at 14:49 | Editorial Dept

Friday March 1, 2019 In the latest edition of the Numbers Report, we’ll take a look at some of the most interesting figures put out this week in the energy…

Lithium Miners Set Their Eyes On Unlikely Mining Country

Mar 01, 2019 at 14:38 | MINING.com

Lithium miners have set their eyes on Portugal, a country that doesn’t scream “mining” like other jurisdictions, but which already is Europe's biggest producer of the commodity, thanks to the…

Miners Eye The Moon For Trillion Dollar Payoff

Mar 01, 2019 at 14:32 | MINING.com

European scientists have announced plans to start mining the moon as early as 2025, though what they’ll be extracting is neither gold nor diamonds, but waste-free nuclear energy thought…

Is This The End Of A Record-Breaking Oil Rally?

Mar 01, 2019 at 12:14 | Tom Kool

Oil prices have had the strongest start to the year in recorded history, but economic data looks set to put an end to that rally.

U.S. Oil Rig Count Falls As Prices Slide

Mar 01, 2019 at 12:14 | Julianne Geiger

The the number of active oil and gas rigs fell in the United States again this week according to Baker Hughes, despite record-breaking production for the week ending February 22—the…

Will Trump Take Action Against OPEC?

Feb 28, 2019 at 15:56 | Nick Cunningham

Brent is creeping back up towards the high-$60s per barrel, prompting a scolding of OPEC by President Trump via tweet earlier this week. Trump’s irritability with high oil prices is…

The Permian Is A Double-Edged Sword For Oil Majors

Feb 28, 2019 at 13:13 | Nick Cunningham

The oil majors are scrambling to scale up their shale operations, and they are quickly becoming the most dominant producers in the shale sector, despite having arrived late to the…

Are Semi-Solid State Batteries A Gamechanger?

Feb 28, 2019 at 13:10 | Irina Slav

The EV battery race intensified this week with the announcement that a startup financially supported by the U.S. Department of Energy had released a lithium ion battery that stores…

Why Iran Fears The New Oil Order

Feb 28, 2019 at 11:04 | Vanand Meliksetian

The fundamentals of the oil market have changed significantly over the decades since the inception of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Although the cartel’s oil production has increased over…

China Becomes Hub For EV Sales

Feb 28, 2019 at 09:08 | Jon LeSage

China has become the hub for global electric vehicle sales, taking half the market share last year. CBS News’ “60 Minutes” just broadcasted an in-depth look at the market…

Shale Growth Is Nearing An Inflection Point

Feb 27, 2019 at 17:03 | Nick Cunningham

Drilling activity has plateaued in much of the U.S., with the rig count zig-zagging well below the peak from last November. The rig count often rises and falls in response…

Saudi Aramco CEO Rebukes Peak Oil Demand ‘Hype’

Feb 27, 2019 at 16:20 | Tsvetana Paraskova

“I am not losing any sleep over ‘peak oil demand’ or ‘stranded resources’,” Amin Nasser, the chief executive of Saudi Arabia’s oil giant Saudi Aramco, said in a speech…

The Fully Digital Oilfield Is Almost Here

Feb 27, 2019 at 16:10 | Irina Slav

When a few years ago media began calling data the new oil, it was because some pretty direct parallels could be drawn between Big Oil and Big Tech. These…

Has Trump Overplayed His Hand With Saudi Arabia?

Feb 27, 2019 at 13:57 | Tim Daiss

Last year, President Donald Trump successfully convinced Saudi Arabia to help keep a lid on global oil prices by ramping up production. The Saudis acquiescence to Trump’s tweets at the…

UAE To Build World’s Largest Underground Oil Storage Facility

Feb 27, 2019 at 13:35 | Tsvetana Paraskova

The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) and South Korea’s SK Engineering and Construction Co. Ltd (SKEC) signed an agreement on Wednesday to build the world’s single largest underground…

Middle East Oil Kingdoms Grapple With New Crisis

Feb 27, 2019 at 13:16 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Ever since oil was first discovered in the Middle East in the 1930s, the monarchies in the Persian Gulf have generously subsidized energy and utilities costs for the population. While…

Technical Issues Wreak Havoc On Crude Futures

Feb 27, 2019 at 12:47 | Editorial Dept

One gets very accustomed to good things and it is certainly true for daring presidential tweets, impossible to discern whether it is a genuine emotional outburst or an irregular thought-out…

Natural Gas Prices To Remain Low… For Now

Feb 27, 2019 at 10:25 | Nick Cunningham

The U.S. suffered though multiple bouts of severe cold in the last few weeks, but the weather has done very little to rescue low natural gas prices. Henry Hub gas…

BP CEO Dudley: U.S. Shale Is ‘A Market Without A Brain’

Feb 26, 2019 at 13:02 | Tsvetana Paraskova

The U.S. shale industry responds only to oil price signals and is like “a market without brain”, BP’s chief executive Bob Dudley said on Tuesday. “The U.S. is the…

Oil Inches Higher Ahead Of Inventory Data

Feb 26, 2019 at 11:20 | Tom Kool

Oil prices opened the week lower after U.S. President Donald Trump asked OPEC to ‘’take it easy’’ on the production cuts, but recovered somewhat on Tuesday morning

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