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During his visit to Ankara in December 2014, Vladimir Putin announced that South Stream—a large pipeline that would have carried Europe-bound Russian gas under the Black…
Africa’s most populous country will head to the polls on March 28th in the closest elections in Nigeria’s short democratic history. While security has dominated the…
The conventional wisdom recently has been that North America will keep producing shale oil for some time despite the higher costs associated with hydraulic fracturing and…
Elon Musk and his company Tesla Motors will revolutionize the way you drive, and while they’re at it, the way electricity is priced and consumed. At…
Oil prices fluctuated up and down over the course of this week, with a wider gulf opening up between WTI and Brent crude. The U.S. Energy…
Many readers have asked me to explain debt. They also wonder, “Why can’t we just cancel debt and start over?” if we are reaching oil limits,…
In an internet comments section I was once berated by a reader for not following what they described as the number one rule of trading, that…
Don’t look now but the anti-fossil fuel movement is quickly building momentum. Climate activists have campaigned against oil, gas, and coal for years. And while legislation in the U.S. Congress…
It was as recently as Jan. 21 that Patrick Pouaynné, the CEO of Total, conceded that low oil prices had forced the French oil giant to cut capital spending, but…
Oil prices continued to pick up steam for the week ending on February 13. Brent crude traded above $60 per barrel for the first time in 2015, a psychological threshold…
Professor Alexander Parkhomov of Lomonosov Moscow State University has published a paper describing his successful replication of Andrea Rossi’s E-Cat LENR or cold fusion device. It seems Parkhomov managed…
It’s a ritual long familiar to observers of American politics: presidential hopefuls with limited international experience travel to foreign lands and deliver speeches designed to showcase their grasp of foreign…
With oil and gas still flooding the scene it’s a buyer’s market. For some however, picking isn’t easy. For the European Union specifically, an abundance of choice comes with its…
OPEC’s strategy of choking off North American shale appears to be going according to plan. Baker Hughes reported another significant decline in the rig count for the week ending on…
European nations met in Latvia last Friday to devise a strategy to unify their energy sectors. The February 6 meeting in Riga by European Union energy ministers sought to…
Oil Prices are flirting with a rebound, poised to jump the most in four years for the week ending on February 6. The markets do not know what to…
In Part 1 of this series, I talked about why cheap fuels act to create economic growth. In this post, we will look at some…
President Barack Obama’s 2016 budget proposal is out; enjoy it while it lasts. The budget proposal features a significant boost in federal spending for green-energy…
Reading the general run of financial headlines might lead one to believe that price declines in those commodities which are highly sensitive to economic conditions such…
This week saw yet more bad news for the oil sector, as the EIA’s latest figures released on Wednesday showed U.S. Inventories at levels not seen…