The United States is set…
Slowly but surely, carmakers are…
China is on track to…
As Argentina tries its luck as the next potential venue for a shale boom, the country’s new government goes for a major overhaul of the state-run oil giant, YPF, ousting…
All charts are through February 2016 The OPEC Monthly Oil Market Report just came out. The charts are “Crude Only” production and do not…
Firstly we will look at some of the critical figures and data in the energy markets this week, before examining some of the key market movers…
Seventy-eight years after oil was discovered in Saudi Arabia, and the Kingdom continues to wield its influence as much as ever. As oil prices charge lower…
Change is coming rapidly in the global coal sector these days. With key producer Indonesia reporting this week that exports from its South Kalimantan region fell…
The IEA struck a more bullish note in its latest monthly report, pointing to “signs that prices might have bottomed out.” The Paris-based energy agency found…
Iran has agreed to join an output freeze after it reaches 4 million barrels per day in production, which essentially means that it will not…
The oil-price rally that began in mid-February will almost certainly collapse. It is similar to the false March-June 2015 rally. In both cases, prices increased largely…
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau came to Washington on March 10 to meet with U.S. President Barack Obama. The two leaders appear to have hit it off, and on the…
33 years to the day after OPEC agreed to cut its oil prices for the first time in its history, and it is still fighting for…
Total U.S. land rig count fell 13 to 450 rigs and horizontal land rig count fell 14 to 375 rigs. Tight oil plays lost 10 net…
Shale wells pump out a lot more oil right up front, and deplete much faster than conventional wells. It’s a bit of technical mathematics that doesn’t…
Argentina offers one of the few places on earth where oil companies are not suffering from the full force of the collapse in prices. Argentina regulates…
For the thousands of new entrants into the oilfield services (OFS) industry in the past 15 years - both workers and companies – if you didn’t…
Trying to pick individual stocks is difficult. Most investors struggle in large part because they lack the kind of information and tools that are available to…
The internal unrest in South-East Turkey that started following the June 7th, 2015 general elections continue to threathen Turkey’s energy security. The Turkish government (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi-Justice and Development…
I’ve been talking almost exclusively about oil in the past dozen columns I’ve written for you – but what about natural gas? Many people continue to…
In case it escaped your attention, Mario Draghi, the ECB President, announced a package of measures yesterday designed to stimulate the lagging Euro zone economies. To…
Friday, March 11, 2016 In the latest edition of the Numbers Report, we’ll take a look at some of the most interesting figures put out this week in the energy…
Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict • For the Iraqi Kurds, as we’ve stated numerous times over the past several years, an independence bid…