While U.S. and European automakers…
Researchers at Tohoku University have…
The new OPEC Monthly Oil Market Report is out with crude only production numbers for June 2016. OPEC added Gabon to its member countries this month. But I…
We begin by taking a quick look at some of the critical figures and data in the energy markets this week, which show that oil prices have rebounded…
Searching for oil and gas is an activity with uncertain success—an activity with a bit less uncertainty were it not for 3D seismic surveying. And this uncertainty could…
Argentina has been shaping up as one of the best places on Earth for oil and gas exploration. With high and rising government-mandated prices helping to spur…
Although its post-sanctions production boom appears to be have waned, the Islamic Republic of Iran still hopes to increase its energy exports, exploit new production contracts and expand…
About two-thirds of U.S. natural gas production and about half of U.S. oil production currently comes from hydraulically fractured wells. Fracking is an essential process in the U.S.…
• Markets are a little bit stressed at the moment. Last week’s digestion of Britain’s EU rejection included a record low print in the US 10yr yield at…
Elon Musk tweeted yesterday that he will be releasing the second part of his Top Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan soon, possibly by the end of this…
Very unexpected updates coming out of India this week. A nation I’ve been writing about a lot lately — in terms of rapidly-falling gold demand. And it appears that…
TRIPOLI--The ground-breaking agreement to unify Libya’s two rival National Oil Companies (NOCs) last week in Ankara, Turkey, is good news for Libyan oil exports on the surface—but the…
The rig count has rebounded from the lows seen in late May, a small indication that oil companies in the U.S. could begin drilling anew. Shale drilling is…
Tesla and Google are both pushing hard into the autonomous “self-driving” car space, but the two companies are going down very different roads. By now everyone has heard about the
Helium has recently got on the public radar, after a potentially huge discovery of untapped deposits in Tanzania. Now the spotlight is moving to Canada, which may…
Chinese state energy companies are huge by international standards. Their government wants them to expand overseas and they seem indifferent to conventional standards of profitability. This makes them…
The Vilification of Oil As a Canadian I have witnessed firsthand the vilification of Canada’s oil sands. Canadians concerned with the effect oil sands have on the world…
I have, on many occasions in the past in these pages, touched on the relationship between oil and the U.S. Dollar. The basics of that relationship are obvious:…
Friday, July 8, 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…
September Crude Oil futures have been trading mostly lower since the U.K. voted to leave the Euro Zone, a move that could lead to a recession in Britain…
We begin by taking a look at some of the critical data in the energy markets this week, which reveals that despite the second consecutive increase in the oil rig…
The U.S. oil rig count rose by 10, while natural gas lost one rig, week-on-week, bringing the total rig count increase last week to 9, for 440 rigs…