Illinois' goal of having one…
Despite facing existential threats like…
The United States has initiated…
The back and forth, the ebb and flow, or business as usual continues in Eastern Europe. As another interim gas deal approaches its deadline, Ukraine will…
We are living in a world obsessed with oil and its price movements. Some time back, when all the trade pundits were predicting a stable 100$…
Saudi Arabia launched airstrikes in Yemen, causing oil prices to jump on fears over Middle East instability. The markets clearly reacted with concern over the…
We are in an age of propaganda where most people argue viewpoints not based on facts but on selective perception basis. They cherry pick what supports…
Petrobras announced on March 24 that it has discovered a significant deposit of oil just of the coast of Rio de Janeiro. The company says…
The newest Mercedes autonomous car looks like a car on the outside but like a lounge on the inside, with four swivel seats facing each other…
The fifth anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster is approaching, but in the intervening years since the well blowout deep offshore, oil and gas drillers have…
If electricity and the management of power sector reforms are key to Nigeria’s economic future, crude oil/gas – and the mismanagement thereof – is at the…
So what do you do when you believe devoutly in hydraulic fracking but also understand that too much fracking is responsible for an oil glut that’s hammering the price of…
Two of the factors in the oil price crash are well constrained: 1) oversupply of expensive light tight oil (LTO) in North America and 2) the…
China imported coal at the slowest rate in almost four years, sending coal markets into a tailspin. For the month of February, China imported 5.86 million…
Ukraine plans to suspend its gas purchases from Russia on April 1, the day after the current contract expires, in an effort to strengthen Kiev’s bargaining…
Norway is stuck between a rock and a hard place. Last week, the Norges Bank defied market expectations by leaving rates unchanged citing an overheating housing…
Oil prices nudged upwards slightly on March 23 and 24, ignoring several troubling signs for energy markets. WTI traded above $48 per barrel and Brent…
Oil prices bounced back on March 24 on a sliding U.S. Dollar, but the pain may not be over yet. Oil storage capacity continues to deplete.…
As of late last year coal formed the backbone of US electric generation capacity. At a share of roughly 39 percent, it still does. However,…
The plunging price of oil over the past nine months has forced many if not most energy companies to cut back drastically on spending, especially on…
The Obama administration’s new rules on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, are being denounced by the energy industry as impeding a US oil renaissance and by environmental…
It is a staple of oil industry apologists to say that the recent swift decline in the price of oil is indicative of long-term abundance. This…
A relatively high-profile natural gas pipeline cleared a key legal hurdle just as another saw increasing opposition from affected landowners.The shale gas revolution has…