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Trade War Game Confuses Oil Investors

Apr 06, 2018 at 16:06 | Jim Hyerczyk

U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures are in a position to close lower for the week. Some of the selling pressure was generated by a confirmation of last week’s…

Saudi Officials Worried About Oil’s Future

Apr 06, 2018 at 14:13 | Irina Slav

Saudi government officials like talking to the media about oil. They invariably come across as upbeat, confident that the OPEC deal will achieve its goal of shrinking the global oversupply,…

Is The Iran Nuclear Deal Coming To An End?

Apr 05, 2018 at 16:31 | Nick Cunningham

As the U.S. moves closer to pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal and re-imposing sanctions, Iran could see some of the recent progress in its energy industry being rolled…

Tesla: The Biggest Loser In The Trade War

Apr 05, 2018 at 13:53 | Tsvetana Paraskova

A few years ago, Elon Musk said that Tesla could sell more cars in China than in America in the long term, because the Chinese market is just so huge.…

2018 Oil & Gas Projects To Break Even At $44 Per Barrel

Apr 05, 2018 at 09:01 | Irina Slav

New oil and gas projects to be sanctioned this year will likely have a 15-percent lower breakeven level than last year’s, at US$44 per barrel of oil equivalent, Wood Mackenzie…

How Canadian Drillers Adapt To Extreme Crude Discounts

Apr 04, 2018 at 15:52 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Canada’s oil producers had just started to slowly recover from the oil price crash when they began to face increased constraints in marketing and monetizing their heavy crude oil. Transportation…

Farmers Hit Hard As Trump Backs Big Oil

Apr 04, 2018 at 15:32 | Nick Cunningham

The Trump administration seems to be leaning towards allying with the oil refining industry in its fight against Big Corn and federal rules requiring the use of corn ethanol. Reuters…

Tesla’s Production Problems Aren’t Going Anywhere

Apr 04, 2018 at 14:29 | Jon LeSage

Tesla Inc. had some good news to report during its quarterly shareholder call on Tuesday, but it may not be enough to salvage the electric carmaker’s stock prices and needed…

Is The U.S. Government Doing Enough To Protect Power Grids?

Apr 04, 2018 at 11:53 | ZeroHedge

Just as tensions between the U.S. and North Korea are finally beginning to cool (while animosity between the U.S. and Russia intensifies), a recent industry report argues the U.S. government…

OPEC Production Slumps To 12-Month Low

Apr 04, 2018 at 11:02 | Irina Slav

Crude oil production across OPEC slumped by 170,000 bpd last month to 32.04 million bpd, a Bloomberg survey among energy analysts. This is the lowest daily production rate in…

Investors Reward Big Oil’s Frugality

Apr 03, 2018 at 16:52 | Irina Slav

Belt-tightening has been the policy of necessity in the oil industry over the past three years, and even the price recovery that began at the end of 2016 did not…

Upstream Oil Investments Bounce Back

Apr 03, 2018 at 15:59 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Until recently, oil industry analysts and executives were lamenting the slump in global investment in upstream oil, and many continue to predict a looming oil supply shortage in the early…

Total Deploys First Robots To North Sea

Apr 03, 2018 at 13:50 | Irina Slav

In a world-first, French Total is set to deploy groundbreaking autonomous robots to a North Sea oil platform to test the machines in operational inspections at the facility. The…

Oil Markets Hit By Financial Turmoil

Apr 03, 2018 at 13:36 | Tom Kool

Oil prices remained relatively flat on Tuesday following Monday’s sell-off in what appears to have been triggered by rising Russian crude production. (Click to…

Houthi Missile Hits Saudi Oil Tanker

Apr 03, 2018 at 11:02 | Tsvetana Paraskova

A Saudi oil tanker was targeted by the Iran-aligned Houthi movement on Tuesday afternoon local time off Yemen’s port of Hodeidah, sustaining minor damages and completing its course north, Saudi-owned…

''Car Biz Is Hell'': Musk Is Back To Sleeping At The Factory

Apr 03, 2018 at 10:24 | Tsvetana Paraskova

They say not to bring your work home with you, but what about bringing your home to work? Elon Musk is doing just that, saying on Monday that he is…

Russia Considers $50B Investment In Iranian Oil & Gas

Apr 03, 2018 at 09:25 | Irina Slav

Russian energy companies could spend as much as US$50 billion on oil and gas exploration in Iran, a presidential aide told media. Yuri Ushakov said companies including Rosneft, Gazprom,…

Are We Sleepwalking Into The Next Oil Crisis?

Apr 02, 2018 at 14:08 | Robert Rapier

One school of thought is that future oil demand is set to decline because consumers will have better options. Many in this “peak demand” camp believe that the growth of…

Is This The Best Alternative To Lithium-Ion Batteries?

Apr 02, 2018 at 13:51 | Irina Slav

What would you think about a battery that sports five times the capacity of the average lithium-ion one? And then what if this batter was cheaper, and even more environmentally…

Is Russia Cheating On The OPEC Deal?

Apr 02, 2018 at 11:23 | Tsvetana Paraskova

After three months of steady output, Russia’s crude oil production increased in March to 10.97 million bpd, the highest level since April 2017, as the top two Russian companies…

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