Despite experiencing a significant decline…
Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Economy…
Europe's high natural gas storage…
As Great Britain considers its future and the role that shale gas may play, it’s worth trying to understand the economic impact that greater shale development…
The new government in Alberta is much less friendly to the fossil fuel industry than the conservatives it recently swept out of office after forty years…
It has been a bad day for deals and deadlines all around: first Greece is about to enter July without a bailout program and in default…
Royal Dutch Shell is nearing a start to drilling in the Arctic, but has run into some hiccups. The U.S. government decided that Shell cannot actually…
As initially pointed out by Peakoilbarrel.com in a recent article, discrepancies between actual data for oil production in Texas vs. what the EIA claims are so stark it’s almost…
Oil markets face a lot of downside risk – high crude oil inventories in both the U.S. and Europe, resilient production from U.S. shale, increasing output…
On June 22, Mexico’s Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) announced it would tender a new round of 24 energy infrastructure projects totaling $10 billion, including a $3…
In spite of all the talk about the fall in oil prices leading to greater mergers and acquisitions activity, so far the sector has been relatively…
Brazil’s Petrobras has slashed its capital spending program for the next five years, cutting it by 37 percent in an effort to stop the hemorrhaging of its balance sheet.…
In 2014 the Saudis could no longer accept the loss of crude oil market share as the North American production levels shot up sharply over a…
The deadline for the negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program is finally here, raising the possibility that the OPEC member could finally see sanctions removed from its…
The oil price collapse of 2014-2015 began one year ago this month (Figure 1). The world crossed a boundary in which prices are not only lower…
Low oil prices and a massive scandal in Brazil threaten the country’s ability to fulfill its expected role as a source of future oil growth. Brazil…
During May and June the oil price has stabilized and both WTI and Brent spot prices have converged on $60 / bbl; the US…
With the price of both Brent and WTI hovering around $60 per barrel, the short to medium term outlook for oil remains uncertain, owing to the…
The Greek tragedy is reaching its climax. The discussions between Greece and its European creditors broke down over the weekend, with the two sides still at…
An effective energy storage technology is turning out to be the Holy Grail for the renewables sector as the world is slowly but steadily embracing clean energy in favor of…
Demand response technology is being touted as a way to help countries reduce energy usage without having to significantly change their behavior to reduce actual…
Crude oil has hovered near $60 a barrel since May, a useless price for investors. This uneasy equilibrium needs to be broken before any good can…
When the whole energy sector was being hit hard at the end of last year, as oil prices collapsed, it became clear that at some point…