New research shows Washington DC…
Hurricanes, despite appearing with increasing…
Russian natural gas producer Novatek…
Much has been made of the potential for natural gas as a fuel for the trucking and rail industries.The dramatic fall in natural gas prices in recent years…
Everyone seems to agree that the world is running out of cheap oil. But how cheap is cheap? Until we know it’s hard…
Producers in the coal space are desperately looking for answers these days.Miners are trying to find ways to maintain profitability. In the face of falling prices for most…
Oil and gas are at the heart of the Russian economy and are largely responsible for keeping Moscow’s government budget in balance. But the recent decline in the price of…
While I’ve been digging into a bunch of different commodities recently, there have been a number of interesting bits and bobs relating to coal that I’ve been squirreling away. Hence,…
Big Oil has been very successful at developing sophisticated technology to access oil in some pretty remote areas. Consider the technological skill necessary to drill several miles below…
The violence and cutthroat politics of the Middle East, combined with declining oil and gas production levels, has triggered a subtle but significant shift away from what has long been…
The best way to get oil out of the ground may be to pump in foam.Scientists pumped foam into an experimental rig that mimicked the flow paths deep…
Ukraine’s next crisis will be a devastatingly economic one, as violent conflict destroys critical infrastructure in the east and brings key industry to a halt, furthering weakening the energy sector…
The confrontation between Ukraine and Russia has entered a potentially dangerous new phase that could increase the likelihood of a dispute over energy supplies.On Aug. 15, Ukrainian authorities…
Why We Need to Be Careful with How We Generalize Energy NeedsDoña Maria (pictured above) moved from being one of the…
Deep in U.S. coal country, people are suffering economically not just from the White House’s determination to reduce America’s dependence on coal, but also because of competition from an unlikely…
The impact of the Marcellus shale formation on domestic natural gas supply is difficult to overstate. The speed and volume in developing this formation is astonishing. In 2007, Marcellus supplied…
A new study of the fluids used in the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, shows that several of them may not be as safe as the energy industry…
A new study from Stanford University scientists finds no direct evidence of water contamination from hydraulic fracturing in Wyoming, but points out concerns that some fracking is being undertaken…
The world has changed. Even two years ago, with a war going on by proxy between Russia and Ukraine, we'd have seen a ten dollar rally in the price of…
For more than seventy years the oil reserves of Mexico have been the exclusive property of the state run oil company Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex. That changed at the end…
The U.S. hosted an unprecedented summit of 50 heads of African states in Washington, D.C. in early August. The event was meant to highlight the enormous investment opportunity that the…
Last week, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) weekly petroleum status report delivered more bad news to the crude oil market, but the EiA’s long-term outlook most likely set the…
A Russian financial journal reports that Russian oil giant Rosneft, despite earlier indifference to Western sanctions, is now expecting to feel their pinch and has asked Moscow for more than…