Despite some crude inventory builds…
Researchers at Tohoku University have…
Despite Congress passing new sanctions…
In an industry where anything could happen, surprises—often unwelcomed—are hard to come by. Oil is exactly such an industry at the moment. No one is sure where oil…
OPEC has captured its largest share of the oil market since 1975, which could be seen as a vindication of the cartel’s strategy over the past two years.…
Large oil and gas companies seem to be looking at new opportunities to invest, to capitalize on the future growth in oil demand. The confidence to invest in…
It’s a rough time to be an investment banker. Between Brexit crippling Europe and China worries depressing U.S. firms, investment banking transactions volume has been relatively weak leading…
Electric companies, at least the ones trading on the U.S. stock exchanges, are either fully regulated, partly regulated/partly competitive or fully competitive entities. Most of the old line,…
The oil markets have fallen back from the $50 per barrel mark due to questionable Chinese demand and an expectation of early restoration of supply outages. Crude is…
Oil prices jumped on Wednesday in early trading as global stock markets rose and crude oil inventories were expected to fall sharply in the U.S., but as the…
The long-awaited report of John Chilcot, a senior UK civil servant, on the Iraqi War and the events that led to it has revealed that the UK energy business had…
It’s been a roller-coaster couple of weeks for copper. With the Brexit scare dropping the price nearly 4 percent in a day — only to come…
Last week the two administrations of Libya’s National Oil Company made a breakthrough, reaching an agreement to unify their oil operations for the greater good, but now the eastern…
A new sensor developed by Lockheed Martin and Neos will be able to find the location of precious metals and fossil fuels buried under the Earth’s surface by…
Two years on from the beginning of the decline in oil prices, lenders continue to tighten access to finance for oil and gas drillers. Having been burned repeatedly…
The rise of the information technology, e-commerce, and software industries has brought with it profound changes in the way that companies operate. That’s not just because…
The lulling stability of oil prices over the last months has been a welcome respite, and both Saudi and Russian authorities have declared the glut ended.…
Want to invest in the oil majors? Take a look at Chevron and Royal Dutch Shell, but steer clear of ExxonMobil, BP, and Total. That is the conclusion from a…
Another day, another dollar (rally). Crude prices are again coming under downward pressure as economic concerns swirl and uncertainty swells. That said, dollar strength was much more apparent…
A very important data point for the global thermal coal market emerged this week, with one of the world’s largest importing nations saying that it may…
Just when big oil was preparing to sign the new Iranian Petroleum Contracts and start working the country’s vast fields, hardliners once again took the upper…
There has been a lot of optimism returning to the energy markets of late as oil prices have climbed to the $50 a barrel region. Ironically, while a…
The U.S. holds more oil reserves than anyone else in the world, including Saudi Arabia, Russia, and Venezuela. That conclusion comes from a new independent