UK oil major Wood Group…
China's massive investments in solar…
Radia's WindRunner cargo plane design…
The U.S. is in a relatively strong position to take advantage of Asian demand for natural gas. There are now a total of three proposed export…
For a lifetime trader of fossil fuels, it’s been like living in the dark. I’ve never seen a better market to be long crude oil, where the risks to the…
The winding down of extraordinary measures taken by the U.S. Federal Reserve to ameliorate the effects of the financial crisis could reverberate through energy markets. The Fed has…
While the cease-fire between Ukraine and pro-Russian and Russian fighters holds steady, another fight is poised to begin over Russian gas for Ukraine. And, this time, it’s a fight that,…
With uncertainty put to rest over the Scottish referendum, several British energy sectors are hoping investment will resume after coming to a standstill before the vote. Not only that,…
As an Englishman, when I moved to the U.S. more than 10 years ago, two things struck me almost immediately. I was stunned by just how cheap gas was and…
ExxonMobil Corp. was the first Western company to bow to Western sanctions against Moscow and suspend offshore Arctic drilling for Rosneft, the Kremlin-owned oil giant. Now another large Western…
Ten years ago peak oil was assumed to be a rather straightforward, transparent process. What was then thought of as “oil” production was going to stop growing around the middle…
There is so much surplus oil sloshing around right now, some of it is being stored on tankers at sea. It's well known that there is a glut…
As international attention shifts to the Islamic State, many observers have all but forgotten the link between the toppling of Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi, and his one-party state, and the…
Oil and other commodity prices have recently been dropping. Is this good news, or bad? Figure 1. Trend…
William Wallace must be awfully disappointed. The Scottish voted to remain in the United Kingdom, albeit in exchange for a very nice care package of extra powers from Parliament. However,…
Building on its success in getting the U.S. government to approve exports of natural gas, the oil and gas industry has moved on to the export of crude oil.…
Western sanctions against Moscow have forced ExxonMobil Corp. and Kremlin-owned oil giant Rosneft to suspend drilling at an offshore oil well in the Russian Arctic.Bloomberg News broke…
I don’t spend much time finding very short-term trades, as regular readers know. Staring at my screens and trying to find a great long-term trade hasn’t been a breeze either. …
As I advance in years I find that, unlike many people, fewer things make me angry. I guess I am just coming to terms with the fact that the world…
In a surprising turn of events, rising supplies of oil and tepid global demand have caused prices to crash to their lowest levels in years.And the same…
November Crude Oil futures are in a position to close the week higher. This possible reversal on the weekly chart coupled with the strong upside price action earlier in the…
America is betting the kitchen sink on natural gas. No matter which estimate you look at -- the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the International Energy Agency, or Wall Street banks…
A prominent U.S. senator wants to halt all sales of coal mined on federal lands in the western United States because he says the government is getting ripped off.…