Despite global commitments to clean…
Crude oil prices moved lower…
A rarely used technique called…
The latest Fortune 500 list has four oil majors in the top 100 – Exxon, Chevron, Marathon Petroleum, and ConocoPhillips – and another one, Devon Energy at…
The world’s second-largest petro-major gave us a rare look inside its corporate head this week. With top management pulling back the veil on which global oil and gas plays they…
There could be a growing shortage of skilled workers in the oil industry. That may seem counterintuitive in an industry that has been rapidly shedding workers, with more than 350,000…
U.S. crude oil production fell 150,000 barrels per day in May and the global over-supply of liquids was 680,000 barrels per day. The EIA Short-Term Energy Outlook (
According to consulting firm McKinsey, the current oil futures market is pointing to a coming balance between demand and supply—a balance which has the potential to render most…
The soon-to-be leaner Shell is set to reduce its overall geographic footprint and focus on going deeper, instead of farther. Shell’s chief executive Ben van Beurden outlined…
The EIA’s Short Term Energy Outlook is out. The data is in million barrels per day.…
The Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) strike again. The Nigerian government said that it would scale back its military campaign against the Avengers and push for negotiations after…
With the release of Canadian banks’ second-quarter results, investors are beginning to measure the impact of the oil price collapse on the domestic financial industry. Widespread are the…
Between Doha hopes (and nopes), Nigerian supply 'disruptions' which apparently cannot be stopped (conveniently for many oil producers, equity bulls, and central bank inflation watchers), and non-transitory Chinese…
Official data released early on Wednesday confirms expectations of a U.S. crude oil inventory draw, with the Energy Information Administration (EIA) showing inventories down by over 3.2 million…
Back in mid-April, when Iran was desperate to start exporting the millions of barrels it was pumping each day out of the ground, it found it had…
China announced on Wednesday that it will raise the price of retail oil in reaction to global markets, with the National Development Reform Commission (NDRC) saying that the…
If oil prices are to continue their strong rally, they will have India to thank. India has emerged as the “star performer” of the oil markets, the IEA…
At this point, Bakken barely remembers what a drill bit looks like, and the shale boom that once dug at its landscape is now a fleeting memory. Almost…
Natural gas prices have run up phenomenally since the June contract expired on 26 May at $1.963/mmBtu. The natural gas prices touched an intraday high of $2.48/mmBtu on…
Lukoil, Russia’s largest private oil firm, announced on Monday a deep drop in profits in the first quarter of 2016 due to the new round of oil…
This week’s key data from the oil and gas industry shows that outages in Nigeria and Canada, as well as a weakening dollar, have seen oil prices move past the…
Five hundred and twenty-two years after the Treaty of Tordesillas was signed, dividing Spain and Portugal, and crude is also in new territory today. As the gruesome twosome…
I wrote over the weekend about how an unfolding offshore licensing round in Cyprus could be a great opportunity for junior firms. And the past few days,…