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Energy / Energy-General

Are Oil Dividends Worth it?

Apr 26, 2016 at 15:22 | Rakesh Upadhyay

Are you tempted by nice dividends such as BP’s 7.53 percent and Shell’s 7.31 percent? Long-term investors are. They’re lapping up the oil majors on dips…

Can Crude Continue To Rally Like This?

Apr 26, 2016 at 12:46 | Evan Kelly

When looking at the key figures for the oil and gas industry this week, we see that oil prices hold their ground in the mid $40's while the U.S. rig…

ExxonMobil Loses AAA Credit Rating For First Time Since 1930

Apr 26, 2016 at 11:55 | Charles Kennedy

ExxonMobil lost its AAA credit rating for the first time in more than 80 years. S&P downgraded the oil supermajor, which was one of only…

Chesapeake Has Bought Itself Time But Can It Survive?

Apr 26, 2016 at 11:34 | Michael McDonald

The last year has been a bumpy one for Chesapeake Energy. When natural gas prices collapsed several years ago, many firms across the industry moved towards…

Oil Up As Quarterly Earnings Season Kicks Off

Apr 26, 2016 at 10:29 | Matt Smith

One-hundred and sixteen years after the birth of seismologist Charles Richter, and the crude market is trying to break some ground today. Rumbles in the market…

Saudi Arabia Releases Ambitious Plan To Diversify Economy

Apr 25, 2016 at 15:26 | Nick Cunningham

On Monday, Saudi Arabia released a blueprint for the future, a plan for the Kingdom that could alter the course of its history. The “Vision for…

Why The Saudi Aramco IPO Will Not Be Enough

Apr 25, 2016 at 15:24 | Michael McDonald

The Saudi Arabian sale of Saudi Aramco is already starting to attract widespread attention after Mohammad bin Salman, deputy crown prince of the Kingdom, indicated that…

Despite Claims, Ukraine Not Free Of Russian Energy Dependence

Apr 25, 2016 at 15:11 | Colin Chilcoat

Now more than two years on since the revolutionary events on Maidan and Russia’s subsequent annexation of Crimea, Ukraine is still largely without its footing. Political…

Choppy Oil Markets Await Oil Majors’ Earnings

Apr 25, 2016 at 10:29 | Matt Smith

The mighty, mighty Ella Fitzgerald was born ninety-nine years ago today, and accordingly the crude oil market is looking ‘bewitched, bothered and bewildered‘, being pulled in…

The Real Reason Saudi Arabia Killed Doha

Apr 22, 2016 at 16:44 | Rakesh Upadhyay

Saudi Arabia single-handedly scuttled the Doha meeting, knowing all along that Iran would not participate, with a valid reason. The Russians and others agreed to proceed…

U.S. To Undermine Russia’s Gas Monopoly In Europe

Apr 22, 2016 at 16:35 | Nick Cunningham

The first U.S. LNG shipment will soon arrive in Europe, marking a new era for energy on the continent. Cheniere Energy’s newly completed Sabine Pass facility…

Will Oil And Refugees Force European Intervention In Libya

Apr 22, 2016 at 16:34 | Irina Slav

Europe is on track to send security experts to Libya after it successfully installed a so-called unity government that is willing to work with international…

Oil Crash Creates Glut Of Petroleum Engineers – More Layoffs Coming

Apr 22, 2016 at 16:20 | Michael McDonald

$240,000. More than British Prime Minister David Cameron earns per year. Back in 2013, Oilprice.com published an article about a cook on an Australian offshore…

The Worst Is Yet To Come For Oilfield Services

Apr 22, 2016 at 16:09 | ZeroHedge

For the latest indication of how bad the recession in the U.S. oilfield services sector is, we took a look at last night's Schlumberger results which were modestly better than…

Oil Supplies May Be Tighter Than Perceived

Apr 22, 2016 at 15:38 | Editorial Dept

Friday, April 22, 2016 In the latest edition of the Numbers Report, we’ll take a look at some of the most interesting figures put out this…

Expert Commentary: Oil Market Analysis and The Week Ahead

Apr 22, 2016 at 14:17 | SCS OTC Corp

• We currently see limited near term risk of a move back into the mid $30s with peak daily inventory builds in the rearview mirror amidst…

Doha Is A Distant Memory As Oil Rises To Mid $40’s

Apr 22, 2016 at 13:43 | Evan Kelly

We start this newsletter by taking a look at some key data for the U.S. oil and gas industry in which we see further declines in U.S. production, but an…

Oil Prices Show No Sign Of Weakness After Doha

Apr 22, 2016 at 11:38 | Matt Smith

Fifty years to the day after ‘Wild Thing’ was released in the U.S. by The Troggs, and oil markets are having an excitable end to a crazy week. Prices are…

Why Are Bankrupt Oil Companies Still Pumping?

Apr 21, 2016 at 15:44 | Michael McDonald

A central tenet in the thesis by analysts about the oil markets rebalancing has been that as prices declined, oil companies would be forced into bankruptcy.…

What A Recovery For Oilfield Services Might Look Like

Apr 21, 2016 at 15:35 | David Yager

At some point – hopefully sooner than most think – the price of crude oil and natural gas will rise to levels reflecting full replacement cost,…

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