Crude oil prices moved lower…
Canada faces an escalating threat…
Iran is playing down the…
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…
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…
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),…
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.…
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…
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, 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.…
“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…
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, 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…