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Energy / Energy-General

OPEC’s Middle Finger To The Oil Markets

Dec 04, 2015 at 17:16 | Andy Tully

OPEC’s decision at its semi-annual meeting in Vienna on Friday not to cut production but to legitimize its overproduction shows that the group is determined at…

OPEC Meeting Sparks Oil Price Volatility

Dec 04, 2015 at 16:48 | Editorial Dept

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 sector. Each week we’ll…

OPEC Won’t Cut, Markets Remain Oversupplied

Dec 04, 2015 at 16:24 | Evan Kelly

First of all, we take a look at this week's key figures for the oil & gas industry. We see that U.S. oil production is slightly up, whereas oil futures…

Crude Tanks As OPEC Refrains From Cutting Production

Dec 04, 2015 at 09:44 | Matt Smith

Given it is ‘National Dice Day’, it is apt that OPEC has left it to chance how the market will react to an adjustment to its…

North America’s Best Shale Patch

Dec 03, 2015 at 14:03 | David Yager

You really know business is tough when success is measured by suffering less than others. But so it goes as the North American oilpatch enters its second year of a…

Central Banks Continue To Rule Equity And Commodity Markets

Dec 03, 2015 at 13:40 | Leonard Brecken

First, let’s review 2015 to see what could occur in 2016. What was most noteworthy was the continuation of investor focus on central bank interventions vs.…

Can OPEC Strike A Deal On Cutting Production Tomorrow?

Dec 03, 2015 at 12:57 | Nick Cunningham

OPEC is set to convene its twice-a-year meeting in Vienna, and a growing number of the group’s members are clamoring for production cuts in order to…

Potential OPEC Cut? It Depends On Non-OPEC Nations Now

Dec 03, 2015 at 10:02 | Matt Smith

Eighty-five years after the birth of French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, and the crude complex is acting suitably surreal today. As expected, rhetoric is ratcheting up out of Vienna ahead of…

Oil Majors See Opportunity In Climate Action

Dec 02, 2015 at 15:49 | Nick Cunningham

Economists have long held up carbon taxation as an ideal way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but except in a handful of cases, the tricky issue…

Paris Climate Talks To Be A Boon For Energy Storage

Dec 02, 2015 at 15:41 | Gaurav Agnihotri

As the world leaders come together in Paris to tackle the hot issue of climate change, there is one market that not only remains crucial for…

Oil Price Rebound Might Come Too Late For These Bakken Producers

Dec 02, 2015 at 15:29 | Rune Likvern

After years of following developments in extraction of light tight oil (LTO) in the Bakken, the oil price, studying actual well production data from the North…

Oil Prices Under Severe Pressure As U.S. Inventories Near 500 Million Barrels

Dec 02, 2015 at 10:52 | Matt Smith

Forty-eight years to the day after David Bowie’s first single ‘Rubber Band‘ was released (??!!), and the crude complex is being stretched to the downside once…

Saudis Prepared To Listen At OPEC Meeting

Dec 01, 2015 at 16:29 | Nick Cunningham

As energy analysts closely watch for any clues emerging from Vienna, where OPEC is set to meet on December 4, global oil markets remain stubbornly…

Russian-Turkish Energy Relationship Set Back

Dec 01, 2015 at 16:10 | Colin Chilcoat

A once promising relationship met its abrupt end November 24th. In a matter of minutes – or quite possibly seconds – Russia and Turkey’s burgeoning friendship is back to a…

Energy Markets On Edge As OPEC Meeting Nears

Dec 01, 2015 at 13:31 | Evan Kelly

Last week, the North American oil rig count posted another significant decline, and oil prices are not budging from the low $40s per barrel. Current oil and gas reserves are…

Are OPEC Countries Creditworthy At $50 Crude?

Nov 30, 2015 at 17:03 | Dalan McEndree

As the December 4, 2015 OPEC meeting in Vienna approaches, all eyes are on Saudi Arabia and its Gulf Arab allies in OPEC—Kuwait, United Arab Emirates,…

Can We Blame Hedge Funds For Low Oil Prices?

Nov 30, 2015 at 16:57 | Michael McDonald

When oil prices were spiking in 2008 and some commentators were predicting prices of $200 a barrel, many pundits and politicians turned to blame speculators and hedge funds for…

Paris Talks Fall Short On Climate, But Shift To Clean Energy Is Clear

Nov 30, 2015 at 16:55 | Nick Cunningham

World leaders have arrived in Paris for the start of the highly-anticipated climate change negotiations. Although most participants, activists, and analysts are more cynical about the process than they were…

India’s Oil Consumption Primed For Growth As Economy Thrives

Nov 30, 2015 at 16:19 | Gaurav Agnihotri

The EIA recently published a global oil consumption data sheet that provided a clear picture of where the global oil economy is currently heading. The data revealed that although…

China Reshapes Energy Sector, Shifts Towards Market Economy

Nov 30, 2015 at 12:33 | Charles Kennedy

Chinese President Xi Jingping continues his efforts to reorient the Chinese economy on market principles, and a few recent developments highlight the tangible results. First, on…

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