The problem that most companies…
Despite a tight oil market,…
Times are tough in Alberta and to be sure, we’ve piled it on heavy when it comes to cataloguing the long list of pitiable outcomes that…
Eighty-nine years after Jean Goldkette and his Orchestra recorded ‘I’m Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover’, and the crude complex is once again crossing its fingers and…
As I discussed earlier this month, there’s one place on Earth that oil and gas firms should be looking today: Argentina. And this week, the…
It’s a tumultuous time for the Chinese economy. The yuan is sinking slowly and the Chinese government is doing everything it can to prop up the currency at a cost…
The currencies of commodity-exporting countries have been struck by a bout of volatility lately, and are now jumping and falling in value on a daily basis in line with movements…
In November 2014 the OPEC countries met in Vienna and agreed to keep pumping oil to maintain their market share rather than cut production to…
"Down" is such a downer word. That's why when prices fall for practically anything Wall Street wants to sell you, Wall Streeters talk about volatility instead.…
The Canadian government is set to impose stricter criteria for evaluating major energy infrastructure projects like oil and gas pipelines or liquefied natural gas export terminals.…
Thirty-two years after Cyndi Lauper released one of her most popular hits (how scary is that?!), and yep, the weekly EIA inventory report heralds a bearish tone for the crude…
As three Michigan gas stations aggressively battled for customers last week in an all-out price war, sending gas prices down to 47 cents per gallon—just pennies above the federal…
The U.S. Supreme Court Upholds FERC Order 745: Bad News for Electric Generators and Good News for Consumers On Monday (January 25) the U.S. Supreme Court, by a 6 to…
A few days after Christmas I appeared on CNBC Asia’s Squawk Box to discuss the volatility in the oil market. Bernie Lo asked a question about OPEC’s strategy, and…
Sixty years to the day after Buddy Holly’s first official recording session took place, and “Blue Days, Black Nights” have become a common occurrence for the…
Inventories will continue to rise, but the momentum is slowing. The following are some observations as to how we got here and how we’re gonna get…
(Click to enlarge) The one given in this industry is that the analyst community is consistently wrong about where…
We may be enjoying amazingly low prices at the gas pump, but as oil prices continueing to slide we must also remember the catastrophic events that have followed almost every…
One hundred and thirty-four years after the birth of Virginia Woolf, and action in the crude complex is night and day compared to Friday. After rampant…
Despite the nascent oil price rally that started to take hold at the end of last week, there is a broad swathe of financial distress that…
Tbilisi and Moscow’s negotiations over the expansion of Russian Gazprom’s share of the Georgian energy market heightened the political fever in the country over the last…
Everyone’s now pretty well convinced that the collapse in oil prices is a disaster for stocks, something I’ve been trying to convince people of since late in 2014. So, nothing…