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This British Bank Is Backing The Bullish Case For Oil

Nov 26, 2015 at 14:37 | Gaurav Agnihotri

Oil markets remain oversupplied and prices are hovering in the range of $40-$50 per barrel. Many traders and industry experts, however, feel that the worst is…

Will Low Oil Prices Increase Internal Instability In Conflict Countries?

Nov 25, 2015 at 15:18 | Ryan Opsal

With over 1.6 million internally displaced in South Sudan, and another 600,000 refugees in neighboring countries, are oil price declines exacerbating humanitarian crises in oil-producing…

Glencore Wades Into Libyan Oil Fight

Nov 25, 2015 at 15:17 | Nick Cunningham

The battle for control of Libya’s oil production continues, and the latest wrinkle includes a deal with Swiss mining giant Glencore. Glencore secured a deal with Libya’s National Oil…

Oil Prices Down As Storage Keeps On Filling Up

Nov 25, 2015 at 10:23 | Matt Smith

Happy Thanksgiving Eve! One hundred and forty-eight years to the day after Alfred Nobel patented dynamite, and the fuse has been lit for an explosion to…

Big Oil: Which Are The Top 10 Biggest Oil Companies?

Nov 24, 2015 at 16:47 | Nick Cunningham

Energy analysts are paying a lot of attention to which companies are cutting back on drilling, which are going bankrupt, and who will be able to survive the downturn. At…

U.S Drillers’ Operating Losses Could Surge In 2016

Nov 24, 2015 at 16:20 | Michael McDonald

What do you do when all of the low hanging fruit is gone? That question is one that oil producers are increasingly facing as they confront…

Weak Demand From Major Consumers Puts A Cap On Oil Price Growth

Nov 24, 2015 at 15:55 | Ron Patterson

The EIA publishes oil consumption numbers for all major nations. However they have data for most nations only through 2013. They do have data for…

Fossil Fuels For Power Gen May Soon Be In Terminal Decline

Nov 24, 2015 at 15:51 | Andrew Topf

It now makes less economic sense to build a fossil-fuel power plant than ever before, according to a new analysis. While it's probably too soon to sound the death knell…

Can Next Week’s OPEC Meeting Comfort Oil Markets?

Nov 24, 2015 at 13:20 | Tom Kool

This week, the North American oil rig count fell again after a pause, and oil prices continue to exhibit weakness. As below chart suggets, especially the…

Russian Equities Down, Oil Up As Turkey Shoots Russian Fighter Jet Down

Nov 24, 2015 at 09:50 | Matt Smith

One hundred and fifty-one years after the birth of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and today is unfortunately shaping up to be anything but a pretty picture. The oil market is being…

Shale Gas Rig Count Could Implode Here If Prices Don’t Rebound

Nov 23, 2015 at 17:30 | Arthur Berman

The Haynesville Shale play needs $6.50 gas prices to break even. With natural gas prices just above $2/Mcf (thousand cubic feet), we question the shale gas…

Oil Price Rebound Not Imminent, But Underway

Nov 23, 2015 at 16:51 | Nick Cunningham

Oil markets will remain depressed through the fourth quarter of this year as oil storage levels continue to rise around the world. The closely watched EIA…

Will Iran Double Down On Downstream When Sanctions Are Lifted?

Nov 23, 2015 at 16:41 | Gaurav Agnihotri

July 14. 2015 was a turning point for the Islamic Republic of Iran as the US and the European Union reached an agreement through which Iran…

Oil Jobs Lost: 250.000 And Counting, Texas Likely To See Massive Layoffs Soon

Nov 23, 2015 at 11:39 | Charles Kennedy

Crude oil just capped off a third straight week of declines, as WTI nears the $40 per barrel threshold. Goldman Sachs is once again raising the…

Besides Europe, Saudis To Capture Russian Market Share In China

Nov 23, 2015 at 10:26 | Matt Smith

Today is national espresso day, and while crude oil prices received an early morning caffeine shot from rhetoric out of Saudi Arabia, the effects of this are fading. Despite OPEC’s…

Natural Gas Companies Slammed By Low Prices

Nov 20, 2015 at 17:56 | Nick Cunningham

Natural gas spot prices continue to hover near multiyear lows, putting increased pressure on natural gas producers as revenues sink. Although rig counts have been falling…

Cheap Gasoline to Fuel Black Friday?

Nov 20, 2015 at 17:41 | Gaurav Agnihotri

As retailers across the U.S prepare themselves for this year’s Black Friday, most of them silently hope that this year’s consumer spending will be better than…

Mercedes Is Proposing A Novel Solution To Meet Energy Storage Demand

Nov 20, 2015 at 17:24 | Michael McDonald

Ever since Tesla announced its PowerWall battery project earlier this year, interest in stationary storage and battery technology in general has been explosive. Now, Mercedes…

It Can’t Get Much Worse; Now’s The Time To Buy

Nov 20, 2015 at 16:58 | Dan Dicker

From a fundamental view, it probably couldn't get worse for oil. Stockpiles have added 33 million barrels in the last 8 weekly reports, prices are hovering at $40 and momentum…

Right Now Patience Is a Virtue for Traders

Nov 20, 2015 at 16:35 | Martin Tillier

The words “patience” and “traders” can rarely be found in the same sentence without a negative somewhere in between them. By its nature, trading appeals to people with mild forms…

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