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Energy / Energy-General

U.S. Motorists Burning Through Record Levels of Gasoline

Mar 31, 2016 at 12:48 | Charles Kennedy

U.S. motorists are taking advantage of cheap gasoline, fueling up and hitting the roads. According to the EIA, gasoline demand is at a record high for…

Oil Prices Up As Dollar Depreciates Further

Mar 31, 2016 at 11:21 | Matt Smith

Twenty-seven years to the day after Guns N’ Roses released the single ‘Patience’ (anyone feel old? Nope? Me neither…), and the crude market is trying to…

Impatient Banks: A Real Red Flag For The Oil Patch

Mar 30, 2016 at 17:11 | Nick Cunningham

Lenders to the oil and gas industry have been extraordinarily lenient amid the worst downturn in decades, allowing indebted companies to survive a little while longer…

Shell Looking To Sell The Famous Brent Field, But Who Will Buy?

Mar 30, 2016 at 17:10 | Irina Slav

Royal Dutch Shell has confirmed media reports that it is looking to sell part of its production holdings in the North Sea, saying all these…

Railroad Stocks Hit Hard By Oil And Coal Collapse

Mar 30, 2016 at 16:49 | Michael McDonald

There has been a lot of focus on the collapse of the energy industry over the last two years and how badly bruised many of the…

Is The U.S. Really A Leader In Clean Energy?

Mar 30, 2016 at 16:49 | Barry Stevens

Without exception, the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) is all about Atomic Energy Defense (AED). Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), on the other hand, are…

Oil Prices Up As Dollar Drops And Gasoline Draws

Mar 30, 2016 at 11:10 | Matt Smith

Twenty-three years to the day after Charlie Brown hit his first home run in the Peanuts comic strip, and crude prices are swinging for the fences…

As Net-Long Positions Near Records, Is The Oil Rally Overdone?

Mar 29, 2016 at 16:12 | Nick Cunningham

Since February, major investors have predicted that oil prices were poised for a huge rally. Hedge funds and money managers piled into bets on rising oil…

Rolls-Royce Could Play A Central Role In Rejuvenating British Nuclear Power

Mar 29, 2016 at 15:53 | Michael McDonald

One of the major disappointments for renewable energy in the last fifteen years has been the lack of progress on next generation nuclear reactors. While the…

How Have Hedge Funds Been Affected By Oil Prices?

Mar 29, 2016 at 15:41 | Rakesh Upadhyay

After suffering large losses in 2014, trying to find a bottom in crude oil, the hedge fund industry wizened up: In 2015, it reduced its weightage…

Will Weak Fundamentals Force Saudis To Action

Mar 29, 2016 at 14:07 | Evan Kelly

As oil rebounded from 2-week lows on intraday trading on Tuesday,  we will take a quick look at some of the critical figures and data in the energy markets this…

Oil Rally Unwinds Ahead Of Inventory Data

Mar 29, 2016 at 10:54 | Matt Smith

One hundred and sixty-eight years to the day after Niagara Falls stopped flowing due to an ice jam, and ongoing skepticism about a coordinated oil production…

Israel’s Supreme Court Dashes Netanyahu’s Energy Plans

Mar 29, 2016 at 10:42 | Dave Forest

Critical and unexpected development with one of the world’s largest natural projects the last couple days. With a major court decision putting the future of the development in doubt —…

Does Saudi Arabia’s Play For Market Share Make Sense?

Mar 28, 2016 at 16:39 | Dwayne Purvis

Props to Saudi Arabia. Unlike other producers, including U.S. shale producers, it maintained financial strength and flexibility during the last boom. When it began to shift…

$40 Oil Not High Enough To Save A Lot Of Drillers

Mar 28, 2016 at 16:39 | Michael McDonald

For a while there in January and early February investors started to get truly nervous about the energy sector. Everyone knows the energy industry itself is…

$8 Billion Natural Gas Find Re-Affirms Tanzania’s Status As Gas Giant

Mar 28, 2016 at 16:29 | James Burgess

Tanzania made its way onto the world energy map beginning in 2011 with a series of consecutive finds; now it’s making history again with another major…

Israel’s Game Changing Gas Discovery Dealt Another Blow

Mar 28, 2016 at 14:18 | Charles Kennedy

The massive Leviathan gas field was discovered in Israel’s offshore Levant Basin over six years ago, and while it theoretically puts Israel on the global energy…

Oil Prices Fall Slightly On Bearish Fundamentals

Mar 28, 2016 at 11:49 | Matt Smith

Two hundred and nineteen years after Nathaniel Briggs first patented a washing machine, and crude continues to spin around the $40 level, unable to make a…

Low Oil Prices Forcing Saudi Arabia To Modernize Economy

Mar 25, 2016 at 16:55 | Nick Cunningham

The collapse in oil prices is forcing Saudi Arabia to undertake some deep and fundamental changes to its economy, reforms that no amount of browbeating from…

Was Russia’s Syrian Campaign Aimed At Turkish Energy Security?

Mar 25, 2016 at 16:50 | Tugce Varol

After a decade long honeymoon period between Russia and Turkey, based on the close personal relationship between Putin and Erdogan, relations between the two countries deteriorated…

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