The total number of active…
The tanker market is likely…
Exxon has turned into a collateral victim of the U.S. economic sanctions against Russia. So while supermajor BP’s chief executive Bob Dudley said earlier this week that he…
In the midst of the shale boom in 2013, Texas added more than 19,000 new jobs in the oil and gas production sector, leading the U.S. job increase in…
In spite of the Indian government’s international commitments to clipping greenhouse gas emissions (driven home by the country’s ratification of the Paris climate agreement earlier this month), coal…
Prime Minister Trudeau "outsmarts opponents of carbon pricing" -- that's how the John Ivison of the National Post described it. Bloomberg said, "Trudeau’s national carbon tax is a…
The latest meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in Algeria, on September 28, brought some relief to producers, with the price of oil finally trading above $50…
After three years, Uber has finally given up on expanding into China. Native Cab Company Didi Chuxing invested $1 billion in Uber along with 20 percent of their shares…
A presidential commission tracks the crude oil positions that are reported each week: this week producers and processors are short, while managed money is long oil In its Weekly Commitment…
A long summer On September 17th, Iran’s parliament endorsed a new Petroleum Contract put forward by the energy ministry and the cabinet. The coming weeks will reveal which oil majors…
Oil companies and their beneficiaries that suffer from low oil prices are being rescued by the current ECB monetary policies. Negative interest rates and the ECB corporate bond purchase…
There might have been a lot of skepticism in the preliminary OPEC production ‘deal’ that was announced a few weeks ago in Algiers, but much of that is now fading…
Looking back at the last couple of weeks’ price action in WTI one thing stands out. OPEC or no OPEC, the benchmark U.S. oil futures contract attracts plenty of sellers…
Friday, October 14 2016 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…
Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict • Russia and Turkey this week signed the contract for the Turkish Stream gas pipeline that will carry Russian gas under the Black Sea to Turkey.…
Crude oil and natural gas futures posted volatile moves this week that may be setting up another sharp rise to the upside, or a corrective move to the downside. Both…
In sticking with our recent $42-$50 forecast for WTI we underestimated the ability of OPEC + Russia to talk the market up while behaving bearishly. Although recent production data for…
As China wants to reduce the number of its state-held firms, the government plans to merge chemical groups Sinochem and ChemChina to create a global oil and chemicals giant worth…
Houston oilfield services company Baker Hughes, Inc. showed a four-rig increase in the United States oil count, marking 16 straight weeks of no-decline in the active oil rig figure…
Oil is trudging tiredly lower into the weekend, exhausted after an onslaught of oil-specific releases and (another) week of ongoing OPEC rhetoric. Hark, here are five things to consider in…
Information about Saudi Aramco IPO advisors to be released soon Saudi Aramco plans to sell shares in its entire business, the company’s CEO Amin Nasser said. When the IPO was…
As Saudi Arabia leads the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries in developing a six-month freeze deal, investors and industry officials should consider one key factor before rocking the markets: can…