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Venezuela to Compensate American Oil Companies for Nationalization?

Jul 29, 2011 at 07:51 | John Daly

If Cuba's Fidel Castro is America's favorite Latin American bête noire, then Venezuela's Hugo Chavez qualifies as Washington's reigning Prince of Darkness. In 1960, Fidel Castro nationalized US business…

The Offshore Oil Industry and Hurricane Season

Jul 29, 2011 at 07:29 | Dave Summers

The summer brings back Hurricane season, with the threat that such storms bring to the oil and gas well operations in the Gulf of Mexico. And the National Oceanic and…

Oil and Ethics: Why PEMEX Needs to Emulate Statoil

Jul 28, 2011 at 08:18 | Andrew Smolski

A lot of the problems that are happening with PEMEX is due to poor allocation of funds by the government. Whether they are overspending on social programs or just taking…

Slowdown in Demand Pushes Crude Oil Prices Lower

Jul 27, 2011 at 09:53 | Forex Pros

Crude oil futures edged lower on Wednesday, as negotiations to raise the U.S. debt ceiling remained deadlocked and after industry data showed that U.S. crude supplies rose by the most…

Energy Conservation: The Only Strategy to Avoiding Social and Economic Ruin

Jul 27, 2011 at 07:40 | Post Carbon

Energy conservation is our best strategy for pre-adapting to an inevitably energy-constrained future. And it may be our only significant option for averting economic, social, and environmental ruin. The world…

Petrobras and PEMEX: Opening Doors Through Oil

Jul 27, 2011 at 07:38 | Andrew Smolski

As written by this author last week, PEMEX is on the long road to privatization, however the government in México maybe has a different path through regional interconnection further…

Iran’s Dream for a Middle East Gas Pipeline

Jul 26, 2011 at 08:12 | John Daly

Nothing gets oilmen more excited than the idea of building pipelines from exotic, hard to reach places to seaports where the product of their endeavors can be shipped to lucrative…

Fusion Delusion and the $6.3 Quadrillion Mining Project

Jul 26, 2011 at 08:08 | Kurt Cobb

Several years ago a young boy asked me during a presentation if we might be able to pipe in oil and natural gas from the Moon or other planets. I…

The Growth of the Natural Gas Industry

Jul 26, 2011 at 07:55 | Dave Summers

The natural gas industry in the United States has undergone significant changes in the last twenty years. As I noted last time, until 1993 the industry was beset by regulation…

Shale Gas Changing the Energy Balance of Power

Jul 26, 2011 at 07:52 | Andy Soos

Rising U.S. natural gas production from shale formations has already played a critical role in weakening Russia's ability to wield an "energy weapon" over its European customers, and this trend…

Natural Gas Analysis for the Week of July 25, 2011

Jul 25, 2011 at 15:12 | Commodities Mansion

The spike in September Natural Gas futures came to an abrupt ending early last week as weather forecasts took out the chance for an extended heat wave across the United…

War Over Privatizing Transneft Pipeline Monopoly Roils Russian Government

Jul 25, 2011 at 11:04 | John Daly

Ever since the December 1991 piece to implosion of the USSR, Western investors have hungrily eyed the post-Soviet space as a prime ground for plunder. Two decades later, Western investors…

Mongolia: Ulaanbaatar Subjected to Moscow’s Energy Arm Twisting

Jul 25, 2011 at 10:58 | Eurasianet

A shortage of Russian-supplied fuel is underscoring Mongolia’s dependency on its giant neighbor. Some experts and officials in Ulaanbaatar are now sounding like European Union leaders in Brussels in publicly…

Crude Oil Analysis for the Week of July 25, 2011

Jul 24, 2011 at 11:28 | Commodities Mansion

September Crude Oil futures finished the week at a six-week high, slightly below the psychological $100 level. The late session rally on Friday was driven by demand for crude oil…

How Long Will Natural Gas Prices Stay Low?

Jul 22, 2011 at 07:49 | Taras Berezowsky

The natural gas market’s underperformance in the investment world hampers its current role as (at least an investment) alternative to crude oil, effectively making the abundant fuel take a backseat.…

Will Less Oil Lead to Lower Standards of Living?

Jul 22, 2011 at 07:45 | Gail Tverberg

The amount of oil that is extracted from the ground each year has been close to flat since 2005, regardless of what has happened to price. Since world population has…

Our Oil Future may not be as Bleak as it Seems

Jul 22, 2011 at 07:38 | Brian Westenhaus

The wide-ranging Al Fin hit upon a graph that will stun the peak oil believers.  You’ll want to save this.  The flip side is it comes from the International Energy…

Crude Oil Futures Approach Two Week High

Jul 21, 2011 at 09:57 | Forex Pros

Crude oil futures erased losses on Thursday, re-approaching a two-week high as optimism European leaders would reach an agreement to solve the region’s debt crisis boosted demand for riskier assets.…

Why Less Energy Consumption Can be a Good Thing

Jul 21, 2011 at 08:06 | Kurt Cobb

I now make it a staple of my public talks on energy to ask who in the audience has been to Europe. Usually many hands rise. I then explain that…

The Energy at the Earth’s Core

Jul 21, 2011 at 08:04 | Andy Soos

What spreads the sea floors and moves the continents? What melts iron in the outer core and enables the Earth’s magnetic field? Heat. Geologists have used temperature measurements from more…

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