Oil prices surged above $90…
The tanker market is likely…
The state of New York will ban hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, because of the potential it holds for creating a public health risk and its questionable economic benefits. Gov. Andrew…
The Spanish energy company Repsol will buy Canada’s Talisman Energy Inc. for $8.3 billion in cash in a deal that would immediately double Repsol’s oil production and staff. Repsol and…
Concerns about energy security have shot to the top of the political agenda in Europe. But the US has no intention of letting the EU down. “The United States will…
Urgent Note: This week, our analyst Dan Dicker provides key insights into the companies now considered to be the walking dead in the energy space. The debt burdens…
Attempting to pick the bottom of oil’s move down has so far proven to be an expensive game for energy investors. The $60 WTI level that we are rapidly approaching…
Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict Somalia has invited Soma Oil and Gas, ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch Shell, BP and Chevron to explore oil and gas resources in the country. Soma Oil and…
The Shale Revolution may not really end up being a revolution after all. A new study in Nature finds that the estimates for shale gas production could be vastly overblown,…
The peak will have to wait – at least in the United States. According to a new report from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) US proved reserves of both…
As crude oil prices take a beating, with Saudi Arabia predicting that prices will stabilize at $60 per barrel, we head to Norway, where state-run giant Statoil is poised to…
Most people with functioning brain cells, even the most ardent climate change deniers, accept that at some point in the future mankind will have to find a viable alternative to…
Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict Any and every oil and gas investor operating in Europe and Eurasia should be concerned about the very dangerous and very misguided Cold War geopolitics currently…
2014 was good. 2015, not so much. Vladimir Putin has been on quite a roll for about a year now. But December 1,…
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has come full circle in Denton, Texas after a controversial ban on the practice entered into effect on Tuesday. Denton is one of several cities located…
Stanford University engineers have invented a material designed to help cool buildings. The material reflects incoming sunlight, and it sends the heat from inside the building directly into space…
A month after Ukrainian general elections, there is still no new government, and elite power circles are playing a very dangerous game with the country’s most important ministry—energy. It’s a…
What does it take to build up a new region for oil and gas development? Obviously, the resources have to be in place and economically recoverable. But it is not…
A specially designed ship with a helicopter pad prepares to take supplies from Stavanger harbor to an offshore oil platform. OSLO,…
Saudi Arabia did it. After stonewalling for weeks, all attention is on the House of Saud and its refusal to let OPEC cut production, even by a modest 2 million…
The practice of hydraulic fracturing has rightly received a lot of the credit for allowing the U.S. to boost its oil production in recent years by as much as 60%.…
Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict Iraq/Kurdistan Islamic State (IS) fighters have failed to seize control of the Northern Iraqi giant oil field at Kirkuk, after a tense battle on Wednesday. The…