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Louisiana Light • 2 days | 87.12 | +0.63 | +0.73% | ||
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Bonny Light • 2 days | 88.40 | -0.92 | -1.03% | ||
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Opec Basket • 2 days | 88.39 | -0.06 | -0.07% | ||
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Mars US • 175 days | 77.26 | -1.51 | -1.92% | ||
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Gasoline • 10 mins | 2.768 | +0.009 | +0.34% |
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Bonny Light • 2 days | 88.40 | -0.92 | -1.03% | ||
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Girassol • 2 days | 89.03 | -0.87 | -0.97% | ||
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Opec Basket • 2 days | 88.39 | -0.06 | -0.07% |
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Peace Sour • 12 hours | 76.77 | +0.76 | +1.00% | ||
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Light Sour Blend • 12 hours | 79.82 | +0.76 | +0.96% | ||
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Syncrude Sweet Premium • 12 hours | 86.77 | +0.76 | +0.88% | ||
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Central Alberta • 12 hours | 77.17 | +0.76 | +0.99% |
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Eagle Ford • 2 days | 80.05 | +0.76 | +0.96% | ||
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Oklahoma Sweet • 2 days | 80.00 | +0.75 | +0.95% | ||
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Kansas Common • 2 days | 73.75 | +0.75 | +1.03% | ||
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Buena Vista • 3 days | 87.23 | -0.55 | -0.63% |
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Energy
Mr President - It's Time to Make a Decision on the Keystone XL Pipeline
When I worked in Scotland, one of my managers was a wise Englishman named Graham Walker. As with many people whose paths I have crossed in my life, some nuggets…
The Top Ten Causes of Toxic Pollution
A study addresses toxic industrial pollution around the world and its impacts on health. A report released this week by the Blacksmith Institute reveals the major causes of toxic pollution…
Crude Oil Analysis for the Week of November 14, 2011
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Why we Need to Change the Way we Assess Fuel Supplies
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Natural Gas Analysis for the Week of November 14, 2011
Natural gas futures continued to fall on the weekly chart. Last week the January contract took out three week’s worth of bottoms to set another contract low. The break in…
Rowe, Philosopher-CEO, Retiring
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More Oil Discovered in Nigeria - Surprise, Surprise
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Economic Growth Being Choked by High Oil Prices and Falling Supply
I gave a talk on expected financial implications of the oil limits that we are now reaching at a recent meeting of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil-USA.…
Merkel, Medvedev Launch Nord Stream Pipeline Beneath Baltic Sea
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As oil prices rose ever higher in the last decade, the optimists kept predicting rising production capacity and plummeting prices. Looks like they got it wrong. We are entering what…
Peak Oil: The Five Most Common Misconceptions
I have just returned from the annual ASPO conference in Washington, D.C. This was only my 2nd ASPO conference; the first one I attended was in 2008 in Sacramento. There…
The Hybrid Power Plant: Is This The Best Application of Solar Technology?
Prof. Avi Kribus of Tel Aviv University’s School of Mechanical Engineering and its innovative new Renewable Energy Center is applying the term “hybrid” to power plants (More info) Prof.…
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