Plastics will come to account…
Namibia wants to join OPEC…
Oil prices fell this week…
They may end up being right, but they were all way too early. Activist investors are that special breed of hedge fund managers known for their…
The task of abandoning suspended or depleted wellbores and reclaiming the surface location - the modern title of which is well decommissioning (WD) - is back…
Five hundred and forty-three years after the birth of Copernicus, and all action in the crude complex is revolving around yesterday’s crude inventory report. While Wednesday’s…
In a televised-address on February 17, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro delivered some crushing news to his country. To address the fiscal crisis facing the country, the…
Success in Putin’s Russia isn’t a matter of persistence, cunning, or luck; sure, that’s necessary to an extent, but high-level success in today’s system of soft…
As California grapples with a historic four-year-long drought, and farmers skimp on water for crops in the face of fines, oil wastewater is becoming both a…
Yesterday, one of the best-known providers of energy market intelligence thanks to its massive private and patented network of land, sea, and satellite monitors, Genscape, held…
S&P dropped a bombshell on Thursday, downgrading the sovereign credit rating for Saudi Arabia by two notches. The ratings agency also slashed credit rating for Brazil, Kazakhstan, Bahrain and…
One hundred and eighteen years after the birth of Enzo Ferrari, and the current rally in the crude complex apparently has more gas left in the…
I wrote yesterday about offshore natural gas exploration accelerating in Myanmar. And this week we got news that another major offshore exploration trend has struck…
Defying skepticism that their countries could agree on any measures to stabilize global crude markets and prices, Saudi Petroleum and Natural Resource Minister Ali al-Naimi and…
Demand for thermal coal is declining, a trend that appears to be “irreversible.” That is the conclusion from Goldman Sachs, which published a new report on…
Total’s impressive fourth quarter earnings give us a glimpse into how a supermajor can adjust to an oil price slump by getting the downstream-upstream balance right.…
Hot on the heels of their $52-billion takeover of BG Group going into effect last month, Shell appears poised to make big moves in Brazil. Already the second largest…
Ten years ago a visionary named Vinod Khosla gave a presentation called Biofuels: Think Outside the Barrel. It seems to have disappeared from his Khosla…
After Russia and several top OPEC nations, including Saudi Arabia and Qatar, announced a general agreement to freeze oil production, sights shifted to Tehran to…
On Foo-Fighting drummer Taylor Hawkins’ 44th birthday, OPEC members are again banging the drum for a production freeze. Yesterday’s meeting of oil producers Saudi, Russia, Qatar…
International natural gas is shaping up as one of 2016’s most interesting spots in energy. Given that prices in many world markets are still running high,…
Several top OPEC producers made headlines with Russia on Tuesday, revealing that a secret meeting between their respective energy ministers led to a deal to “freeze”…
As all energy investors know, it has been a terrible year for oil and natural gas companies. Many stocks are down half or more from their…