The U.S. has reimposed sanctions…
After another bout of intensive…
LNG maintains its dominance as…
The dramatic fall in oil prices that we have witnessed over the last four months has dragged almost all energy related stocks with it. This is hardly surprising as the…
Floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) technology took center stage this week with the arrival of a major new FLNG ship in Lithuania. The Independence FLNG ship was greeted by onlookers…
Politics, Geopolitics & ConflictTurkey’s Problems on the Syrian BorderTurkey is attempting to prioritize its enemies here—an activity that has ended up placing the PKK at the…
The crude oil futures market is set to finish October sharply lower, however, the consolidation chart pattern on the daily chart suggests the market may be oversaturated with short contracts,…
With oil prices at new modern lows, China is seizing the opportunity to stock up.The Wall Street Journal reports that a division of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC)…
With presidential elections looming next October, international investors eyeing Argentina’s potentially prolific shale gas plays are biding their time. Cristina Kirchner is now well into her last term, marking the…
The damaged Royal Shell Dutch drilling barge Kulluk is loaded onto a transport ship in Unalaska, Alaska, on March 19, 2013.CREDIT:…
A new study has cast serious doubt on whether the much-ballyhooed U.S. shale oil and gas revolution has long-term staying power.The U.S. produced 8.5 million barrels of…
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Canadian Premier Stephen have just landed near the bottom of a ranking of the world’s worst climate villains. The 2014 Climate Change Performance Index,…
Figure 1 shows annual percentage contributions to total global energy consumption by fuel type since 1965. I plotted it up to see if it contained any hidden messages about the…
Recent trade deals and high-level cooperation between Russia and China have set off alarm bells in the West as policymakers and oil and gas executives watch the balance of power…
Brazil’s incumbent President Dilma Rousseff pulled off a victory on Oct. 26 in a runoff election, and the markets are not too happy about it. As recently…
The head of French oil company Total is dead, and conspiracy theories and questions are swirling about the impact the future direction of the French energy giant will have on…
Across America, something unusual is happening on main streets, in suburban strips, and at country stores: workers are lowering the prices on the signs for gasoline.Veterans of the…
If you are paying attention, you will be aware that oil prices have been falling dramatically since the end of June, losing over 20 percent from the highs at that…
Sales of electric vehicles continue to rise but low gasoline prices are threatening to stall progress.From January through September of this year, sales of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles…
Through iteration, experience, and innovation, North America is producing oil cheaper. According to IHS, the median North American shale needs a crude price of $57 a barrel to break even…
Media reports are quoting an anonymous source as saying Saudi Arabia, the world’s leading oil exporter, supplied foreign and domestic customers with less crude during September even though its oil…
On 22 October, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said that by the end of this year Ukraine will be 4 million tons short of coal. The deficit stems from the fact…
The Texas Rail Road Commission just released their oil and gas production report with the August data. As you probably know by now that this data is incomplete. The…