U.S. oil companies are not…
Crude oil prices moved lower…
The debate over whether to…
Greece is the watchword for investors this week and commodities have taken a back seat – but is that the smart way to watch what unfolds in the Euro zone?…
As I search through financial markets looking for opportunities to write about, I am frequently reminded that trading and investing are two very different things that…
Introduction Unlike some of its neighbors, Morocco is not a major producer of oil and gas. Next door, Algeria is a huge…
August Crude Oil futures finished lower last week for a number of reasons. The market started the week under pressure and never looked back. The catalyst…
With Greece’s debt situation spiraling downwards, the European project is showing some cracks. The July 5 referendum could amount to a vote on whether or not…
The big news from the U.S. this week was new data that showed that the weekly rig count…actually increased. That’s right, after 29 consecutive weeks of rig count declines, the…
Today, an empty flagpole stands outside the Cuban Interests Section in Washington, D.C., but that will change on July 20, when Cuba and the United States…
In the last month or so a kind of stealth move has been taking place in an unlikely energy commodity. Natural gas, the poster child for…
Oil hit its lowest point in two months on July 1, falling on a combination of market turmoil and bearish oil figures. WTI dipped below $57…
The Middle Eastern oil and gas empire is undergoing dramatic change as the two biggest petroleum companies, Saudi Aramco and Qatar Petroleum are aiming to expand…
For much of the last fifteen years, Chinese growth has been a source of hope across Asia. Now that growth is slowing and China appears to…
North Dakota publishes monthly ND Historical Barrels of Oil Produced by County. This data however does not include confidential wells. But they do estimate, by…
British energy giant BP announced July 2 it has reached a tentative settlement with the U.S. government and five states along the Gulf of Mexico coast…
Despite oil prices plummeting over the past year, falling from around $100 per barrel to now under $60 per barrel, the U.S. shale industry has proved…
The news from the recent St. Petersburg Economic Forum, which took place from June 18 to 20, inspired a torrent of speculation on the future direction…
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…