The US has become a…
Despite facing existential threats like…
Bottom Line: In the end, geopolitics is always about natural resources, and almost always about fossil fuels specifically. Following this logic, the end game in Syria could very well be…
Canadian Trade Minister Ed Fast, visiting Beijing, has officially confirmed that Ottawa will welcome further continued investment from Chinese energy companies. "Chinese investors looking for stability, innovation, low taxes and…
There has been an acronymtastic set of reports this week from the IEA, IMF, and EIA. So from these nine letters come six charts out of three reports. Alphabetti spaghetti…
Clean energy investment woes; talk of the end days of fossil fuel subsidies; the death knell for Europe’s carbon market; a new (hydrocarbons) theory on the Syria end game; and…
Offshore oil is back on the British government’s agenda as a key component of the country’s “Oil and Gas Industrial Strategy” at a time when North Sea investment has experienced…
General Electric (NYSE: GE) has announced plans to expand its oil and gas business by acquiring Lufkin Industries (LUFK) in a $3.3 billion deal that boost its market share for…
The energy sector is a great example of how the U.S. and Canada can live side by side but be SO different.Think of the phrase—Americans like to shoot…
I’ve been following Genel Energy of Turkey for a while now, not least because of my obsession with the potentially catastrophic but otherwise fantastic venue that is Iraqi Kurdistan. Every…
Bottom Line: The sweeping parliamentary endorsement of Sunni politician Tammam Salam to become the country’s next prime minister is a major boost for stability and removes a great deal of…
Obama’s budget proposal boosts clean energy at the expense of fossil fuels; the ethanol mandate comes under bipartisan attack; trader Dan Dicker’s predictions for Noble Energy come true; and a…
This is usually the time of year where I am preoccupied by fears of relegation for my beloved soccer team, West Ham. However, with seven games to go, they appear…
Each year the larger oil production companies provide their views of the future, and I recently reviewed that for ExxonMobil. Shell has now produced their projections, though in a…
Napoleon said that an army marched on its stomach. But he lost most of his Grande Armée to disease, much of it the result of poor water and sanitation. It…
Fishes residing near oil platforms in southern California have similar contaminant levels as fishes in nearby natural sites, according to two recent reports by the U.S. Geological Survey, which were…
Energy gets cleaner, but its money gets dirtier; renewable energy suffers more ups and downs; the oil and gas industry balks at a new EPA proposal to cut sulfur levels…
Trading energy and energy stocks this week have been a dangerous experience, as oil markets sloughed off more than $3 a barrel on little more than a whim. DOE reports…
Hydraulic fracking is an expensive, complicated and dirty endeavor. That is the present reality. But new technology already being employed and even more promising ideas coming online soon could clean…
A recent report by Finance Canada says that the discount to international prices at which Canadian oil and gas exports are selling, is causing the country to lose $4 billion…
Current U.S. energy policy is, in fact, a hodgepodge of disconnected policies designed for specific constituencies with no coherent goal. The country has subsidies for fossil fuels, subsidies for nuclear…
The not-so-distant future of driving will be first increasingly semi-autonomous and then fully automated, as technology to build self-driving cars gains traction, promising both safer driving and lighter-weight vehicles that…