Energy

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…

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.…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Mar 22, 2015 at 19:39 | Nick Cunningham

Oil companies continue to get burned by low oil prices, but the pain is bleeding over into the financial industry. Major banks are suffering huge losses…

Mar 22, 2015 at 19:26 | Arthur Berman

Spending cuts for oil-directed drilling have dominated first quarter 2015 energy news but rig counts for shale gas drilling are too high. Investors should pay attention…

Mar 22, 2015 at 18:57 | Darrell Delamaide

A recent report from GTM Research and the Energy Storage Association, ‘U.S. Energy Storage Monitor,’ projected that…

Mar 21, 2015 at 09:19 | Dave Forest

Things are starting to get interesting in the global coal market.The key word being "starting".The strategy unveiled by South Africa's power authority Eskom may be a…

Mar 20, 2015 at 15:03 | Dan Dicker

How quickly has the oil market has changed? Since November of last year, oil predictions have run the gamut from complete wipeout to $20 a barrel…

Mar 20, 2015 at 15:01 | Martin Tillier

In general, when a company announces plans to issue more stock, it has a rapid negative effect of the share price. That is understandable, each share…

Mar 20, 2015 at 14:53 | Editorial Dept

Introduction The United States is hoping to take drastic measures to cut its greenhouse gas emissions. However, with the U.S. Congress gridlocked and unable to take…

Mar 20, 2015 at 14:29 | Jim Hyerczyk

Crude Oil Crude oil support fell apart last week, leading to a price collapse. The selling momentum was strong enough to drive the market into a…

Mar 20, 2015 at 13:52 | James Stafford

Along with the rest of the energy world, we have been closely tracking rig counts (now down 40 percent from last fall) and other data to…

Mar 19, 2015 at 17:48 | Nick Cunningham

The future for the coal industry is looking “increasingly bleak,” according to an investor’s note from Macquarie Research. The analysis firm also said that “a…

Mar 19, 2015 at 17:32 | Mark Hill

While Congress and the White House continue to wrangle over the Keystone XL pipeline extension, the oil industry is taking matters into its own hands. Markets…

Mar 19, 2015 at 17:05 | Thomas Miller

The dominos are starting to fall, and it hasn’t been a good March so far for three Texas oil and gas operators. As prices take another…

Mar 19, 2015 at 11:20 | Charles Kennedy

The United Kingdom is moving quickly to resuscitate its dying oil and gas sector, slashing taxes on the industry in order to make the UK…