Despite Congress passing new sanctions…
Standard Chartered has predicted global…
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Two hundred and twenty-two years after John Stone patented the pile driver, and the oil market is trying to dodge getting hammered today. After yesterday’s EIA-inspired…
If any of you have seen my early writings on OilPrice.com, you would know I have been steadfast in my criticism of the media exaggerating…
In the geopolitical and oligopolistic global oil market, purely financial supply and demand has often been a secondary force, acting when it is allowed to act.…
A bombed pipeline could cut into oil exports from Nigeria for the next few months. The Trans Forcados pipeline was struck by a bomb in…
Iran is expected to raise the April Official Selling Price (OSP) of its flagship light crude oil to Asia to 25 cents above the Saudi’s similarly…
Leonardo DiCaprio recently won the Oscar for Best Actor for his performance in The Revenant. I saw the movie, and to my layman’s eye it…
A federal bankruptcy judge ruled that Sabine Oil & Gas could withdraw from its contract obligations with pipeline companies to ship a certain volume of…
On the 84th birthday of the most wonderful Keely Smith (no relation, by the way), the oil market is reversing yesterday’s losses and going ‘zooma zooma’…
The largest oil companies are struggling to balance competing objectives with dramatically lower revenues compared to previous years. Nearly all have taken the axe to their…
Growth in U.S. natural gas production may have been the catalyst for the development of massive LNG export projects that led to the first American exports…
It’s getting harder to be a human - at least a human making a good living in the financial markets. High frequency trading, algorithmic trading, dark…
The $9.2 billion investors paid to snap up new equity offerings from U.S. oil companies in 2016 proves those investors are indeed ready for more…
First of all, we take a quick look at some of the critical figures and data in the energy markets this week. We will then look at some of the…
The professional money managers covered 25,639 short contracts for crude oil last week—the highest figure in the past 11 months. These large short squeezes are indicative…
One hundred and twenty-nine years after Everett Horton patented the telescopic fishing rod, and the recent oil rally is looking overextended. Let’s go on a wander…
In 2000, Canadian miner Goldcorp changed its fortunes through a unique strategy: giving away its proprietary technical data. Dubbed the “Goldcorp Challenge”, the firm made all…
Oil prices should fall, possibly hard, in coming weeks. That is because fundamentals do not support the present price. Prices should fall to around $30 once…
Crude oil prices have rallied by more than 30 percent since early February and investors are growing more confident that a rebound is in order. Have…
Perhaps the only major sector of the economy that has changed more than energy in the last decade is the defense industry. Military technology today differs radically from what was…
The U.S. rig count fell below 500 for the week ending on March 4, as another 13 oil and gas rigs fell victim to the oil…