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Energy

Growing Consumer Indifference To Gasoline Prices

May 26, 2015 at 09:49 | James Hamilton

U.S. retail gasoline prices last week averaged over $2.80 a gallon, thirty cents higher than a month ago. The preliminary University of Michigan index of consumer sentiment for…

Top 4 Oil Companies For Dividend Investors

May 25, 2015 at 16:51 | Michael McDonald

Investing in the energy industry right now can be scary. On the one hand, oil prices have been extremely volatile and look likely to stay that way. On the…

E.U. Could Provide Push U.S. Needs To Lift Energy Export Limits

May 25, 2015 at 16:40 | Alexis Arthur

 On May 21, the United States Senate approved fast-track legislation that has the potential to expedite several international trade negotiations, not least the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP),…

Oil Markets Can’t Ignore The Fundamentals Forever

May 25, 2015 at 12:42 | Arthur Berman

Storage withdrawals and falling rig count have been the main sources of hope that U.S. tight oil production will fall and that oil prices will rebound.…

Exxon Setting Its Sights On Iranian Oil Fields

May 25, 2015 at 12:22 | Charles Kennedy

The deadline for a comprehensive deal between Iran and the P5+1 nations is quickly approaching, with the outcome no more certain than it was a few months ago.Negotiators…

Shell Approval May Trigger Resource Race In The Arctic

May 22, 2015 at 17:49 | Colin Chilcoat

In a few short months Shell will (re)enter the Chukchi Sea. The oil and gas major still awaits approval from a number of state and federal agencies, but in early…

China To Create An Oil Supermajor Twice The Size Of Exxon?

May 22, 2015 at 17:17 | Gaurav Agnihotri

China, the fourth largest oil producer in the world (behind the U.S., Saudi Arabia and Russia) is undoubtedly one of the biggest stakeholders in the global oil and gas markets.…

Oil Futures Prices Divorced From Physical Markets For Now

May 22, 2015 at 16:55 | Materials Risk

 “Like pushing a rock up a hill” That’s how some trader’s view the current disconnect between the physical market for crude oil and the futures market with speculators pushing futures…

What Does Exxon Know That We Don’t?

May 22, 2015 at 16:33 | Dan Dicker

Forecasts from the IEA and Goldman Sachs this week are trying to say that crude barrels are still overpriced – but the market isn’t listening. I’ve…

Oil Looks Set to Go Lower Again, But This Refiner is Still A Good Buy

May 22, 2015 at 16:30 | Martin Tillier

Oil, or rather the price of WTI, is at a critical level. Lower U.S. production numbers this week have given the black stuff a boost and…

Major Offshore Potential In This Tiny Nation

May 22, 2015 at 16:15 | Editorial Dept

Introduction The North Sea has long been in decline. An era in which the British Islands fueled Europe’s oil and gas needs, which has…

Expect Back And Forth Price Action Until June 5th

May 22, 2015 at 14:32 | Jim Hyerczyk

July Crude Oil futures have drifted sideways-to-lower since its May 6 top at $63.62 despite three consecutive weekly drawdowns in inventory. Drawdowns have even taken place…

This Week In Energy: Petrobras Scandal Could Undermine Brazil’s Economy

May 22, 2015 at 12:31 | Evan Kelly

Petrobras has tried hard to put its massive scandal behind it. After a corruption scheme involving kickbacks was uncovered last year, the Brazilian oil giant has…

China Gaining Influence In This Key Emerging Coal Market

May 22, 2015 at 09:52 | Dave Forest

Another bank, Credit Agricole, voted this week to stop financing coal mining. Suggesting this is becoming a space with little competition for investment -- and perhaps…

Why Oil’s Rally Is Over

May 21, 2015 at 16:41 | Martin Tillier

A lot of people have got very excited as the price of WTI has bounced back from the lows reached a few months ago. If oil…

Drilling Efficiency To Keep Oil Prices Low

May 21, 2015 at 16:25 | Michael McDonald

Economics 101 tells us that prices in a free market are set by the interaction of supply and demand. The world oil markets have gotten a graphic lesson in that…

This LNG Player Could Leave Lumbering Competitors In The Dust

May 21, 2015 at 16:14 | Nick Cunningham

US companies have been scrambling over the past few years to build new export terminals for liquefied natural gas (LNG). But just as the first is…

New Silk Road Could Change Global Economics Forever

May 21, 2015 at 15:58 | Robert Berke

 Part 1: The New Silk Road Beginning with the marvelous tales of Marco Polo’s travels across Eurasia to China, the Silk Road has never…

Clock Running Out For Struggling Oil Companies

May 21, 2015 at 11:51 | Charles Kennedy

Low oil prices are endangering an increasing number of exploration and production companies.According to a new report from Moody’s Investors Service, the oil and…

Natural Gas Prices Here Are Set To Rise 72%... Overnight

May 21, 2015 at 09:44 | Dave Forest

Investor interest in North American natural gas has waned the last few years. Spurred by low prices for the commodity across the U.S. and Canada.But it's critical to…

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