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Louisiana Light • 2 days | 78.61 | -1.95 | -2.42% | ||
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Bonny Light • 1 day | 81.28 | +1.10 | +1.37% | ||
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Opec Basket • 2 days | 85.00 | +1.11 | +1.32% | ||
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Mars US • 28 days | 79.71 | -2.05 | -2.51% | ||
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Gasoline • 11 hours | 2.121 | -0.055 | -2.51% |
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Bonny Light • 1 day | 81.28 | +1.10 | +1.37% | ||
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Girassol • 1 day | 81.92 | +1.12 | +1.39% | ||
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Opec Basket • 2 days | 85.00 | +1.11 | +1.32% |
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Peace Sour • 1 day | 59.71 | -1.90 | -3.08% | ||
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Light Sour Blend • 1 day | 63.56 | -1.90 | -2.90% | ||
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Syncrude Sweet Premium • 1 day | 68.16 | -1.90 | -2.71% | ||
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Central Alberta • 1 day | 61.71 | -1.90 | -2.99% |
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Eagle Ford • 2 days | 72.44 | -1.90 | -2.56% | ||
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Oklahoma Sweet • 2 days | 72.00 | -2.00 | -2.70% | ||
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Kansas Common • 5 days | 65.00 | -0.75 | -1.14% | ||
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Buena Vista • 3 days | 83.98 | +1.45 | +1.76% |
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Energy / Natural Gas
Angola Builds Africa's First LNG Terminal - Good News - for Some
Angola has scored Africa’s first liquefied natural gas terminal. In May Angolan state oil company Sonangol announced that the LNG tanker Sambizanga had arrived to test gas loading and…
Eurozone Crisis Impacts Cyprus's Natural Gas Dreams
Cyprus, thrilled to be taking over presidency of the European Union on 1 July, has a more immediate problem. Several of the largest banks there last month were essentially downgraded…
Greece's New Centrality - and Dilemmas - in Energy
Greece began assuming a new geopolitical significance in May and June 2012 as the “energy war” — or “pipeline war” — between US and Russian interests took on a new…
Polish Shale Ambitions Fine Without Exxon
Exxon Mobil this week said it was abandoning its shale natural gas ambitions in Poland. Warsaw aims to tap into its shale deposits in an effort to break the…
China Turns to Natural Gas to Fuel their Economic Growth
A New Role of Natural Gas in China’s Energy MixThe Chinese economy has grown by an average of 10 percent a year over the past two decades, crossing…
Propane Prices: (Dis)United, Consumers Stand
The natural gas boom and climate change that saw a milder winter and lower demand for propane and resultant over-supply have all helped to bring down propane prices, but the…
Apache Corp Make the World's Largest Shale Gas Discovery in British Columbia
American oil and gas prospector Apache Corp stunned natural gas investors Thursday June 14, 2012 with a natural gas discovery announcement, the main point of which is, “…
Azerbaijan & Turkey Deepen their Energy Ties
Petro-rich oil state Azerbaijan has decided to invest some of its billions in neighbouring Turkey.On 7 June State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) Vice President Suleyman Gasimov told…
Natural Gas Storage is Vital for Future Industry Growth
I’d like to share a recent statement by the Keith Hutton, CEO of XTO Energy, a major natural gas exploration and development company in Texas recently acquired by Exxon Mobil.
Developing Natural Gas Technologies to Replace Crude Oil
Here's a promising story for the U.S. economy.The figure below plots the price of crude oil in dollars per barrel and the price of natural gas on an…
TAPI: A Paper Tiger Pipeline
Turkmenistan recently hosted parties to a planned natural gas pipeline that would stretch eastward through territory in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India. The project, dubbed TAPI, has financial backing from the…
Nord Stream: Russia's Natural Gas Link to the West
Since the 1991 implosion of the USSR, the Russian Federation has been bedevilled by a transit problem – how to shift its natural gas exports to lucrative European markets without…
Reports of Nabucco Pipeline's Death are Exaggerated
The refining director at BP caused a stir last week in Berlin when he was interpreted as saying the full version of the Nabucco natural gas pipeline was no longer…
South Africa Hopes Fracking will Secure its Energy Future
While the natural gas extraction technique of hydraulic fracturing, more familiarly known as “fracking,” has engendered rising controversy in the U.S. and Europe, South Africa has no doubts about the…
Federal Rules Threaten to Suffocate the Fracking Industry
In Medieval times one form of dispatching miscreants was called “pressing”. The punishment involved piling stones on top of the offender one at a time slowly suffocating him from the…
How Fracking Threatens the Health of the Mortgage Industry
One fact ought to tell you all you need to know about the risks faced by homeowners signing leases for natural gas drilling on their property: Wells Fargo & Company,…
Scientists Studying the Link between Fracking and Recent Earthquakes in Texas
Scientists from two Texas universities are looking into a pair of recent earthquakes near the Texas-Louisiana border for clues to whether they were related to underground injection of oil and…
Kiev Stands to Lose EU-Russia Natural Gas Game
European lawmakers this week said they had indications that Kiev was ready to take a closer look at updating its gas transit system. A substantial portion of the Russian…
Iran's Green Revolution may come from Energy
Against the backdrop of discussions about pending negotiations over its controversial nuclear program and the upcoming deadline of an European embargo on Iranian oil comes a quiet push…
How a Deeper Understanding of Fracking could Increase the Lifespan of Oil Wells
There is a real, practical limit to the amount of oil that can be recovered from a reservoir. Depending on the availability and economic viability of different technical approaches that…
