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Is Ukraine’s Embattled Energy Sector A Lost Cause?

Mar 26, 2015 at 18:26 | Colin Chilcoat

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…

Who Benefits Most From Cheap Oil?

Mar 26, 2015 at 18:04 | Gaurav Agnihotri

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$…

Oil Markets Blow Yemen Crisis Out Of Proportion

Mar 26, 2015 at 12:53 | Nick Cunningham

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…

Forget Rig Counts And OPEC, Media Bias Is Driving Oil Down

Mar 26, 2015 at 11:17 | Leonard Brecken

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…

Good News At Last For Petrobras

Mar 26, 2015 at 10:56 | Charles Kennedy

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…

Driverless Cars Poised To Transform Automotive Industry

Mar 25, 2015 at 19:01 | Darrell Delamaide

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 Most Challenging Oil And Gas Projects In The World

Mar 25, 2015 at 18:49 | James Stafford

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…

Energy In Nigeria: Ghosts Of The Past, Present And Future

Mar 25, 2015 at 18:36 | Ronke Luke

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…

T. Boone Pickens Points The Finger At U.S Shale

Mar 25, 2015 at 18:05 | Andy Tully

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…

Low Oil Prices Stimulate Chinese Growth, Prevent Global Recession

Mar 25, 2015 at 17:57 | Euan Mearns

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…

Weak Chinese Demand Could Undermine Entire Coal Market

Mar 25, 2015 at 12:39 | Charles Kennedy

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 Playing Hardball With Gazprom In New Gas Deal

Mar 24, 2015 at 18:08 | Andy Tully

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 Investing Oil Wealth In Foreign Real Estate

Mar 24, 2015 at 17:58 | ZeroHedge

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 Withstand Increased Saudi Production For Now

Mar 24, 2015 at 16:08 | Evan Kelly

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…

Three Triggers That Will Send Oil Crashing Again

Mar 24, 2015 at 11:38 | Charles Kennedy

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.…

No Country For King Coal – The Changing U.S. Energy Mix

Mar 23, 2015 at 18:42 | Colin Chilcoat

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,…

Low Prices Help Arctic Avoid A ‘Gold Rush’ Scenario

Mar 23, 2015 at 18:30 | Andy Tully

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…

No Surprises: Obama’s Fracking Rules Upset Everyone

Mar 23, 2015 at 18:22 | Andy Tully

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…

Oil Price Speed Limit Presaging An Age Of Austerity?

Mar 23, 2015 at 14:56 | Kurt Cobb

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…

How Much Gas Will Flow Out Of The Marcellus Shale?

Mar 23, 2015 at 11:23 | Charles Kennedy

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…

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