In an increasingly bullish oil…
Canada faces an escalating threat…
China is raising from Wednesday…
When we take a look at this week's key figures in oil and gas, we see that commercial crude inventories stay steady above 500 million barrels and that gasoline prices…
The U.S. rig count plunged again this week, falling by an additional 30 rigs for the week ending on February 12. Baker Hughes reported that…
With the end of the 54-year U.S. trade embargo on Cuba, and Cuban government moves to encourage foreign investors, Cuba is a suddenly attractive venue that…
Two hundred and seven years after the birth of Charles Darwin, and the final trading day of the week is evolving into a rambunctious rally for…
The oil and gas business is moving into a new age for financing. With groups like private equity becoming more prominent (just this week, PE-backed Terra…
Do the Saudis have an oil market strategy beyond pumping crude to defend their market share? Are they indifferent to which countries’ oil industries survive? Or,…
Your writer is both an oil junkie and a pack rat for information. Nothing major ever collected related to the history of petroleum has hit the…
Plenty of oil commodity producers are in trouble, and that includes more than a handful of countries whose economies are heavily dependent on oil, gas, and…
There’s an ongoing catastrophe taking place in Ecuador. Not only has a significant part of its Amazon rainforest has been polluted by several oil spills, but…
The coal mining industry is in trouble and the Supreme Court holds the industries fate in its hands. Coal has been suffering for years under the…
The rumors over a coordinated production cut between OPEC and Russia continue. On Wednesday, the head of Russia’s state-owned oil company Rosneft floated the idea of…
One hundred and thirty-eight years after the first U.S. bicycle club was formed (the Boston Bicycle Club), and crude prices are freewheeling lower once more. We…
Leaked documents purport to show that the Islamic State (ISIS) is cutting the salaries of its foreign fighters as low oil prices and continued air strikes…
Will oil go below $20? Jeffrey Currie, the head of commodities research at Goldman Sachs, said on Bloomberg TV on Tuesday that he wouldn’t be…
U.S. energy policy has endured relatively unchanged since 2008. That being said, U.S. energy is not what it was seven years ago. U.S. crude oil production…
An OPEC production cut is unlikely until U.S. production declines by about another million barrels per day (mmbpd). OPEC won’t cut because it would accomplish nothing…
Retail gasoline prices have dipped below $2 per gallon across the United States. But gas might drop below $1 per gallon soon in some places of…
One hundred and fifty-three years after the fire extinguisher was patented by Alanson Crane, and the overnight rally in the crude market has once again been snuffed out. After double…
“It is very hard to see how oil prices can rise significantly in the short term.” For oil prices, the “short term risk to the downside…
The Obama administration’s proposed $10.25 per barrel oil tax adds up to approximately $32 billion a year, and critics are coming out of the woodwork in…