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Energy / Energy-General

This Is Why The Saudis Are Unlikely To Accept Any Production Cutback

Sep 04, 2015 at 10:36 | Matt Smith

‘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…

EIA On Board With Lifting U.S. Crude Export Ban

Sep 03, 2015 at 17:17 | Nick Cunningham

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…

Could Waste To Energy Play A Key Role In U.S. Manufacturing?

Sep 03, 2015 at 16:30 | Michael McDonald

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…

Russian Economy In Dire Straits As Chinese Demand For Oil & Gas Slows

Sep 03, 2015 at 10:16 | Matt Smith

As opposed to the usual free-form structure, let’s do some painting by numbers to color…

Venezuela Delaying The Inevitable With $5 Billion From China

Sep 03, 2015 at 10:01 | Charles Kennedy

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…

Financial Sector To Cut Credit Supply Lines For Oil And Gas Industry

Sep 02, 2015 at 17:05 | Nick Cunningham

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…

How Brazil Can Rebound From The Massive Corruption Scandal

Sep 02, 2015 at 16:31 | Alexis Arthur

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…

West Texas Fracker Uses Toilet Water To Cut Cost

Sep 02, 2015 at 16:14 | Michael McDonald

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…

Oil Prices Might Dip Over This Bearish News

Sep 02, 2015 at 11:24 | Matt Smith

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…

Midweek Sector Update: The Largest Three-Day Rally In Twenty Years, Can It Last?

Sep 01, 2015 at 14:06 | Evan Kelly

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…

Oil Prices Tank Over Mediocre Chinese Economic Data

Sep 01, 2015 at 10:52 | Matt Smith

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…

Obama’s Balancing Act: Climate Change And Arctic Drilling

Aug 31, 2015 at 16:24 | Nick Cunningham

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…

Could Oil Sink Below $40 Per Barrel Again?

Aug 31, 2015 at 10:36 | Matt Smith

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),…

Why So Much Oil Price Volatility? Blame The Speculators

Aug 28, 2015 at 16:58 | Nick Cunningham

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.…

We Could See An Economic Collapse As Debt Defaults Pile Up

Aug 28, 2015 at 16:09 | Gail Tverberg

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…

Is It Time To Jump Aboard The Railroads?

Aug 28, 2015 at 15:55 | Martin Tillier

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,…

Can Oil Companies Keep Paying Dividends?

Aug 28, 2015 at 15:52 | Editorial Dept

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…

This Week In Energy: Can This Rally Hold?

Aug 28, 2015 at 14:43 | Evan Kelly

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…

Can Oil Continue To Rally Like This?

Aug 28, 2015 at 10:10 | Matt Smith

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…

OPEC Divorce And Self-Destruction Thanks To Saudi Oil Strategy?

Aug 27, 2015 at 17:31 | Dalan McEndree

“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.”…

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