Oil prices have been climbing…
Shell's CEO has expressed dissatisfaction…
Imagine a place with hundreds of times more natural gases and other liquid hydrocarbons than all of the known oil and gas reserves on our bountiful planet. As it turns…
The OPEC meeting is over and the cartel has extended production cuts throughout 2018. The decision is obviously crucial to supporting oil prices, but perhaps an even bigger story…
Oil’s sustained rise over the last six months has created an interesting dilemma for many traders. It has taken WTI, for example, to levels not seen since April of 2015,…
Friday December 1, 2017 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…
OPEC and its partners in the Vienna Club agreed to extend their oil production cuts to the end of 2018 – a widely expected move despite doubt about Russia’s willingness…
January West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures are showing a muted response to the news that the OPEC-led group agreed to extend their production cuts in a widely expected move…
Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro said this week that PdVSA is willing to retaliate against financial sanctions from the U.S. by suspending oil exports to the country, sending crude to…
A day after OPEC extended the already-extended production cut deal to end-2018, oil and gas rigs in the US climbed by 6. The boost to the number of oil…
The extension of the OPEC/non-OPEC production cut pact through to the end of 2018, and especially the fact that the cartel and allies included an option to review progress in…
The mood in Vienna this week is considerably more chipper than it was in June. This is because the cartel appears - in the words of Charlie Sheen - to…
China should cut off North Korea’s access to crude oil following the latest missile launch from Pyongyang, and Washington has asked it to do just that, the U.S. ambassador to…
In a sign that the oil majors have survived the three-and-a-half-year oil bust and are back on solid ground, Royal Dutch Shell announced that it will restore its full…
Investors betting on a smooth outcome at the OPEC meeting are in for a rude surprise, according to Goldman Sachs. The investment bank warned that the oil market could be…
Oil markets are waiting patiently for the outcome of Thursday’s OPEC meeting, and the idea that traders could be disappointed is beginning to gain traction. (Click to…
OPEC is on the verge of extending its production cuts for an additional nine months, pushing the deal through the end of 2018. But the determination to keep the cuts…
Electric utility regulation is back… Bond rating agency Moody's just released a study reviewing regulation worldwide. The report begins with “Prudent regulation key to mitigating risk…”. What follows is a…
As I have said many times in the past in these pages there are two basic types of analysis for anything traded, fundamental and technical, and the best trades are…
After defaulting on debt, Venezuela’s crisis continues to unfold, threatening to worsen the state-owned oil company’s production. PDVSA reportedly told employees that they needed to carry out an austerity…
A pacified Syria is key to the economic integration of Eurasia through energy and transportation connections... Vladimir Putin, Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Hassan Rouhani will hold a summit this Wednesday…
Achieving a level playing field is sometimes all in the eye of the beholder. You see, an ongoing issue that has perplexed both oil and natural gas investors and shareholders…