China, facing US threats of…
Israeli authorities claimed to have…
The Kremlin has set an…
Kinder Morgan is a buy today, as the shares are being sold in a panic. First – let’s talk about panic. Because I’ve gotten more stressed…
As I write, we have just received news from the meeting of OPEC oil ministers taking place in Vienna. The production cut that some were hoping…
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 sector. Each week we’ll…
Crude oil prices settled the week lower after OPEC announced…
First of all, we take a look at this week's key figures for the oil & gas industry. We see that U.S. oil production is slightly up, whereas oil futures…
Given it is ‘National Dice Day’, it is apt that OPEC has left it to chance how the market will react to an adjustment to its…
You really know business is tough when success is measured by suffering less than others. But so it goes as the North American oilpatch enters its second year of a…
First, let’s review 2015 to see what could occur in 2016. What was most noteworthy was the continuation of investor focus on central bank interventions vs.…
OPEC is set to convene its twice-a-year meeting in Vienna, and a growing number of the group’s members are clamoring for production cuts in order to…
The collapse in oil prices have led to severe cuts in spending and investment from oil producers, and a new report finds that the combined cuts will lead to…
Eighty-five years after the birth of French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, and the crude complex is acting suitably surreal today. As expected, rhetoric is ratcheting up out of Vienna ahead of…
Economists have long held up carbon taxation as an ideal way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but except in a handful of cases, the tricky issue…
As the world leaders come together in Paris to tackle the hot issue of climate change, there is one market that not only remains crucial for…
After years of following developments in extraction of light tight oil (LTO) in the Bakken, the oil price, studying actual well production data from the North…
Mexico has given the go-ahead to Italian oil company Eni to drill offshore in the Gulf of Mexico. Eni won an auction in late September to…
Forty-eight years to the day after David Bowie’s first single ‘Rubber Band‘ was released (??!!), and the crude complex is being stretched to the downside once…
As energy analysts closely watch for any clues emerging from Vienna, where OPEC is set to meet on December 4, global oil markets remain stubbornly…
More liquefied natural gas (LNG) will be leaving the U.S. come the New Year, even though the market for the chilled gas bound for export markets…
A once promising relationship met its abrupt end November 24th. In a matter of minutes – or quite possibly seconds – Russia and Turkey’s burgeoning friendship is back to a…
Most of the time companies see greater productivity as a good thing. Improved asset productivity helps companies produce more output for every dollar of input which…