The ambitious climate policies of…
Record-breaking natural gas demand for…
Goldman's supply chain congestion index…
Much ado about opening Mexico’s energy sector to Private investment, and a flurry of activity around Iran’s post-Geneva energy sectorThis week, the Mexican Senate granted its general approval…
The emerging budget deal put together by Congressman Paul Ryan and Senator Patty Murray includes provisions that will open up vast new territories in the western Gulf of Mexico…
Canada’s aboriginal “First Nations” have unexpectedly emerged as a potential force threatening to derail the plans of Canadian Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s plans to turn western Canada into an…
One oil and gas worker is killed on average every three days, according to the US Bureau of Labor and Statistics, which shows a spike in industry fatalities coinciding with…
The maritime shipping industry is on the verge of busting into the age of natural gas, as Royal Dutch Shell Plc, General Electric Co. (GE) and Clean Energy Fuels Corp.…
After years of debate, a final decision on the Keystone XL pipeline may be close at hand.The proposed expansion of the current Keystone pipeline is designed to increase…
I wrote last week about India's incredible thermal coal imports.The roll keeps coming in this space.Indian ship broker Interocean reported late last week that imports came…
If one was to believe the picture that most Western media outlets are painting, Ukraine has been lost to Russia. Though the country fought valiantly to sign an Association Agreement…
Chevron is back to fracking in Romania after operations were blocked for the second time in two months, and equipment damaged by hundreds of protesters, while riot police stepped in…
How can we make life better for the world’s poor? Environmentalists often tell us that one way would be to slow climate change by cutting fossil fuel use. They warn…
Abundant natural gas, cost declines for renewables, and tight regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are slowly killing coal-fired power plants in the U.S. This dynamic is playing out…
Researchers have designed an invisible “wall” that stops oily liquids from spreading and confines them to a certain area.The outer shell of a droplet of oil on a…
President of Russian energy company Rosneft, Igor Sechin, said he was eager to unlock the shale oil potential in the Samara region of western Russia. With forecasts warning the U.S.…
As the rest of the world moves away from using coal as an energy source due to its high emission of greenhouse gas, in China the use of coal, the…
ConocoPhillips has completed the sale of its Algeria business unit ConocoPhillips Algeria Ltd. to Indonesian state-owned Pertamina for $1.75 billion, as it seeks to reshuffle its assets despite an…
We’re getting to the end of the year and it’s nearing time for my ‘best stock’ selections for 2014, so you might think that the next column naming these stocks…
Thermal coal takes the prize today—as the commodity with the biggest disconnect between the bullish market reality and the incredibly bearish sentiment amongst investors.Producing stocks have seen a…
Earlier this year we let you in on a little known secret about an up-and-coming oil venue in an unlikely corner of the world—Bosnia and Herzegovina. The paralytic “multi-ethnic” government…
Japan, desperate for new domestic energy sources, is where we now look for research and development that no one else has the patience for—like last week’s news of a Japanese…
Major oil companies continue an aggressive push into deeper water as the memory of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout recedes. Spurred on by consistently high prices for crude oil, the…