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Friday, April 22, 2016 In the latest edition of the Numbers Report, we’ll take a look at some of the most interesting figures put out this…
The rebound rally in the crude oil at the start of the week not only helped the futures market, but it also helped drive the Dow Jones Industrial Average and…
• We currently see limited near term risk of a move back into the mid $30s with peak daily inventory builds in the rearview mirror amidst…
We start this newsletter by taking a look at some key data for the U.S. oil and gas industry in which we see further declines in U.S. production, but an…
Fifty years to the day after ‘Wild Thing’ was released in the U.S. by The Troggs, and oil markets are having an excitable end to a crazy week. Prices are…
The U.S. Senate this week approved a bill to speed permitting of new liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facilities. Just as news from one of…
A central tenet in the thesis by analysts about the oil markets rebalancing has been that as prices declined, oil companies would be forced into bankruptcy.…
Oil production from the North Sea posted gains in 2015 for the second year in a row, but the recent uptick in output could be a…
At some point – hopefully sooner than most think – the price of crude oil and natural gas will rise to levels reflecting full replacement cost,…
Low oil prices appear poised to claim another energy victim by sidelining the wider adoption of liquefied natural gas (LNG) for shipping fuel by as much…
Forty-seven years (!) after Simon and Garfunkel released ‘The Boxer’, and the bulls and the bears are slogging it out again. After trading blows in recent…
Egypt offers a bright spot for natural gas development, a lone bright spot in an energy world undergoing harsh austerity. The friendly business environment in Egypt…
As the world changes for Iran post-sanctions, it’s paying calls to those who benefitted from the country’s sanction shackles in one way or another, and India—whose…
The rally in oil prices by about 50 percent since April are pushing up global currencies. The collapse of commodity prices over the past year and…
In the ‘Asia-Pacific’ LNG trade the largest buyers have been Japan, with between 70 and 90 Mtpa, followed by South Korea, and Taiwan third. All are…
This is really a case of turning the tables, of interviewing the interviewer. In this instance, we interview veteran utility banker, Lewis Hart, whose firm, Chappaqua…
Late last week, just ahead of the Doha meeting, we reported that Iran's existing oil tanker armada, which until recently had been on anchor next to…
As recently as a week ago, the energy bill that the U.S. Congress was considering was stalled and faced an uphill battle. But the Senate has…
One hundred and thirty-seven years after the first mobile home was used (in a journey from London to Cyprus….yep, it was horse-drawn), and crude is on…
There’s a battle shaping up for control of one of the world’s top natural gas markets. And a key asset sale announced this week may give…