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Louisiana Light • 3 days | 87.12 | +0.03 | +0.03% | ||
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Bonny Light • 1 day | 89.32 | +0.45 | +0.51% | ||
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Opec Basket • 3 days | 86.51 | -1.01 | -1.15% | ||
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Mars US • 173 days | 77.26 | -1.51 | -1.92% | ||
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Gasoline • 45 mins | 2.745 | +0.011 | +0.39% |
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Bonny Light • 1 day | 89.32 | +0.45 | +0.51% | ||
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Girassol • 1 day | 89.90 | +0.45 | +0.50% | ||
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Opec Basket • 3 days | 86.51 | -1.01 | -1.15% |
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Peace Sour • 24 hours | 76.56 | +1.46 | +1.94% | ||
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Light Sour Blend • 24 hours | 79.61 | +1.46 | +1.87% | ||
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Syncrude Sweet Premium • 24 hours | 86.56 | +1.46 | +1.72% | ||
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Central Alberta • 24 hours | 76.96 | +1.46 | +1.93% |
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Eagle Ford • 3 days | 79.33 | -0.29 | -0.36% | ||
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Oklahoma Sweet • 6 days | 79.75 | +0.50 | +0.63% | ||
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Kansas Common • 2 days | 73.50 | +0.50 | +0.68% | ||
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Buena Vista • 3 days | 87.02 | -0.29 | -0.33% |
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Exxon Gets Liberal with Same-Sex Benefits
Oil giant ExxonMobil—long criticized for its policies on gay and lesbian workers—has turned a new policy leaf in the liberal direction by extending employee benefits to married , same-sex couples.…
Why Does the UK Ignore Waste-to-Energy Power?
Lack of plant capacity means valuable waste is being shipped overseas.When you hear the phrase ‘renewable energy’, what technologies come to mind? Wind and solar power, certainly; perhaps…
Somalia Seeks Foreign Investment in Energy Sector – Big Oil Cautious
Oil companies are renowned for going into hostile environments in their relentless search for the world’s seemingly insatiable thirst for “black gold.”That said, there remain a few nations…
Kashagan: A Giant in the (Painfully Slow) Making
Thirteen years in the making and $50 billion later, the supergiant Kashagan oil field in Kazakhstan is finally online after many delays, but its short-term impact on the global oil…
Canada to get Biggest-Ever Foreign Direct Investment in Energy from Malaysia
As U.S. President Barack Obama turned his airplane back home away from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Bali, Asian countries continued to express their material interest in importing…
U.S. Shutdown Spreads to Oil-Rich Middle East
The International Monetary Fund said the U.S. economy remains at the front and center of the global economic conversation. Now in week two of a partial federal shutdown, the IMF…
Miliband’s Energy Price Freeze Lacks Long-Term Strategy
Labour leader Ed Miliband has decided to start a war with British energy suppliers, announcing major changes in the UK’s energy sector regulation if Labour wins the 2015 general elections.…
EIA Predicts U.S to be 2013’s Largest Petroleum Producer
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Scientists estimate that about 10 to 18 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide could be stored in the Marcellus formation alone after the extraction of methane gas. The US has several other…
This Week in Energy: Welcome to the US Shale Reshuffle
This week we are watching with great interest what will be a reshuffling of US shale assets that paints an interesting picture of the emerging playing field. Anglo-Dutch supergiant Shell…
Fossil Fuel Demand is too High to be Controlled
American political conservatives like to say that their strategy of tax cuts all the time is designed to "starve the beast." The "beast," of course, refers to government, and…
The One Number Every Oil and Gas Investor Needs
I talked a little last week about the “recycle ratio”. This is a tool every oil and gas investor needs to understand. Without exaggeration, if you used only…
Kurdistan: Raising the Oil & Gas Stakes
Until Sunday, 29 September, Kurdistan (Northern Iraq) has not seen an attack of the kind that plagues the rest of Iraq on a daily basis since 2007.
Another Discovery for Financially Moribund Petrobras
Bottom Line: A new discovery for Petrobras offshore in the northeast of Brazil is good news in theory, but bad news in terms of investment for development that the state-run…
Canada Continues Wooing Asian Energy Markets
Asian countries continue to line up for Canadian energy to which the United States is unable to commit. This week Japan's prime minister Shinzo Abe met with his Canadian counterpart…
Despite Shale, OPEC Still Matters
The chief economist at the International Energy Agency said the Middle East will remain central to the international oil markets despite gains from North American shale. A slump in production…
Only Energy Isolation Equates to Energy Security
The United States could become nearly self-sufficient in oil within the next decade. Oil production from Texas, North Dakota and other shale-rich states means the country is less reliant on…
Charging Electric Cars from Old Pay Phones
With public pay phones a thing of the past, harkening to the days when Superman used them as a changing booth, the City of New York is toying with putting…
China to Double Power Generation by 2030
China—the world’s largest emitter of carbon-dioxide—expects power demand to grow by 5% annually and plans to more than double its power generation capacity by 2030 to meet this relentless…
Chevron Wins Another Victory in Ecuador Case
Chevron today won another small victory in the ongoing case over pollution of Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest at the US Court of Appeals in Manhattan, with the court rejecting Ecuadorian requests…
