An earthquake in Taiwan caused…
A suspected Iranian spy ship…
The U.S. has reimposed sanctions…
Electric cars could upend oil markets much sooner than everyone thinks. According to a new report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF), the rapid decline…
U.S. shale gas exports are upon us. The Asia Vision LNG tanker will depart from Cheniere’s Sabine Pass terminal within the next week or two, marking…
The dour economic environment is continuing to resist the best efforts of policy makers and central bankers around the world. The latest evidence of just how…
Whiting Petroleum Corp. (NYSE:WLL), the largest oil producer in North Dakota, has announced that it will suspend all fracking in the state and cut its…
Just like everything else, the bankruptcy river flows downstream, and as upstream players look to pass their debt burdens onto midstream operations through a rash of…
The JODI Oil World Database came out a few days ago. The data is through December 2015. The JODI C+C production numbers differs somewhat from…
Argentina, Latin America’s third largest power market with approximately 32,000 megawatts (MW) of installed capacity, faces the task of installing 7,000 MW, or 22.5 percent…
The horizontal rig count fell 18 to 397 while the total land rig count fell by only 14 to 473. It happens sometimes. The biggest losers…
Latest reports from the big Bakken shale producers are proving where we are in the crude bust cycle we’ve been following and trying to time. Both…
We, as human beings, love to look for order. We have a problem accepting that not everything falls into neat patterns, so we go back, look…
Friday, February 26, 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…
April Unleaded Gasoline surged this week, indicating that prices may have reached an important low. The trend is still down, however, momentum has shifted to the upside. “We are in…
First we take a look at this week's key figures for the oil and gas industry from which we see that oil prices are recovering slightly as U.S. production drops.…
As noted earlier, among the catalysts for the overnight leg higher in oil was a statement by Venezuelan Oil Minister Eulogio Del Pino who triggered the…
Eighty-six years after New York installed its first traffic lights, and the crude complex has been given the green light to rally today, showing no sign…
Investment in U.S. shale continues to dwindle, with several large companies raising eyebrows with plans to slow drilling plans much further than expected. Continental Resources, an…
It was yet another depressing headline congruent with the rest of the bad news bombarding the battered Canadian oilpatch for 15 months. On February 22 Postmedia…
The massive Leviathan gas field, nestled deep inside the Levantine basin off Israel’s Mediterranean coast, is considered a game-changer for both Israel and Europe, but a…
What if I told you that there was a period in history where oil demand declined by 5 million barrels per day and non-OPEC supply increased…
Oil market observers will appreciate that the oil price has become more volatile of late with daily movements of several percent common place. A friend…