Researchers at the University of…
China is finishing the Al-Faw…
‘Clack! cla-cla clack-clack clack-clack CLACK!!’ (today’s fanfare for Nonfarm Friday was played on football helmets to celebrate the start of college football season). It is the…
A new report from the Energy Information Administration adds more weight to the notion that crude oil exports from the U.S. would not damage the…
The waste-to-energy business has been steadily growing for a decade now, but recently BMW unveiled a new innovation in the industry. The car manufacturer powered…
As opposed to the usual free-form structure, let’s do some painting by numbers to color…
Venezuela, a country in economic crisis because of the dramatic fall in oil prices, is seeking additional financial help from China this week. Venezuela is overwhelmingly…
More U.S. oil and gas companies could come under financial distress in the coming months as crucial hedging protection begins to expire. Many companies had locked…
As Brazil officially enters recession it appears that the nation’s annus horribilis is far from over. Corruption investigations have reached deep into Brazil’s energy sector and…
It is no secret that fracking companies across the U.S. have been turning over every rock in the supply chain looking for ways to cut…
Once again, the API has put the cat among the pigeons ahead of the weekly EIA inventory report. Prices had already spent yesterday getting stomped on…
If you think you know what will happen next with oil prices, think again. Nobody would have predicted the wild ride last week. After cratering earlier in the week, WTI…
Suckerpinch, suckerpunch, for the first day of the month. We kick off September carrying the baggage that we picked up last month – that of economic…
President Obama kicked off a multiday visit to Alaska on August 31, with the intention of highlighting the effects of climate change unfolding in real-time. He…
Arightee folks, this week is set to be a scream (R.I.P. Wes Craven) as we shimmy from August into September (hark, 114 shopping days until Xmas),…
Oil prices crashed last week only to rebound at lightning speed. On August 28, oil prices surged 10 percent, the largest one-day gain in seven years.…
Both the stock market and oil prices have been plunging. Is this “just another cycle,” or is it something much worse? I think it is something…
Once a view takes hold among analysts and traders regarding a particular sector or industry it can be remarkably resilient.Usually the view starts based on logic and reality,…
Now that oil prices have plummeted to six-year lows – lower than the bottom oil prices touched earlier this year – everyone is starting to wonder…
Readers probably have whiplash after the wild ride this week. On Monday, global markets crashed at frightening speeds, with oil prices spiraling out of control. China’s stock market meltdown raised…
On this final Friday in August, the crude complex is looking lower into the weekend after yesterday’s nutty 10% rally. The rollercoaster ride across financial markets…
“If you are the world’s leading energy economy, you produce energy, that’s what you do.” “A government can stay irrational longer than it can stay solvent.”…