Energy

Sep 11, 2011 at 09:34 | FX Empire

November Crude Oil finished the week slightly better after ping-ponging between a pair of Gann angles at $87.39 and $86.61. Volatility was also high, helping to form an outside move…

Sep 09, 2011 at 07:43 | John Daly

As America prepares to commemorate the tragic events of 11 September 2001, when a series of four coordinated terrorist suicide attacks against targets in New York and Washington D.C killed…

Sep 09, 2011 at 07:32 | Gail Tverberg

Will plug-in cars be a success? If by success, we mean “sell lots of vehicles” the answer is probably “no” unless the price comes down a lot–say 50% from today’s…

Sep 09, 2011 at 07:29 | Post Carbon

During recent weeks, evidence has piled up that U.S. and European economies, far from recovering, are swirling back into recession. Failure of American politicians to address the federal debt crisis,…

Sep 07, 2011 at 23:06 | Bruce Krasting

We set another record yesterday. This one has me scratching my head. The Brent WTI spread widened to $27.22. That’s never been seen before. There are some partial explanations for…

Sep 07, 2011 at 07:50 | John Daly

By any yardstick’s Russia’s Transneft pipeline company is an impressive organization. Now ostensibly a Joint Stock Company, the Russian government owns 75 percent of its shares. Created in 1993 as…

Sep 07, 2011 at 07:36 | RFE/RL staff

It all started with great fanfare last year in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, where Ukraine's newly elected President Viktor Yanukovych and his cheerful-looking Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, signed a…

Sep 07, 2011 at 07:31 | Ferdinand E. Banks

I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil ? Alan Greenspan (2008) Alan Greenspan is not my favourite…

Sep 06, 2011 at 18:49 | Joao Peixe

Energy deposits located in east African nations and their offshore coastlines are increasingly drawing foreign investor interest. Recent surveys have led analysts to estimate that Mozambique has over 6 trillion…

Sep 06, 2011 at 18:47 | Charles Kennedy

The European Union intends to introduce an imminent embargo on the importation of Syrian oil in the next several days, a move that the Russian Federation strongly opposes. In the…

Sep 06, 2011 at 08:03 | Robert Rapier

When Barack Obama was campaigning for president, I thought he displayed a “comic book” view of the energy industry: Lots of stereotypes of the good guys and the bad guys.…

Sep 06, 2011 at 08:01 | Energy Digital

The European Union (EU) bans oil imports from Syria in response to President Bashar Assad's civilian killings, costing Syria millions per day. Following the reported killing of 13 civilian protesters,…

Sep 06, 2011 at 07:59 | Gloria Gonzalez

The vast majority of insurers are unprepared to handle climate risks even though they acknowledge the impact of climate change on extreme weather events, according to a report by investor…

Sep 06, 2011 at 07:57 | Mad Hedge Fund Trader

Will everyone please take a look at the chart below for the United States Oil Fund ETF (USO) and tell me if you don’t see a downtrend? Because if it…

Sep 05, 2011 at 08:16 | John Daly

An extraordinary situation has developed in Moscow at the capital’s three airports.  Managers have suddenly discovered that their facilities are swiftly running out of aviation fuel, an extraordinary situation in…

Sep 05, 2011 at 08:09 | Post Carbon

Last month Wards Auto published a story pointing out that the world's motor vehicle count was now over 1 billion. As could be expected, registered vehicles in China grew by…

Sep 05, 2011 at 08:06 | FX Empire

After spiking up to 4.13 after the release of last week’s inventory report and on speculation of a production shutdown because of a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico, natural…

Sep 04, 2011 at 10:33 | FX Empire

Crude Oil futures fell on Friday after the U.S. released a dismal jobs report, but still managed to close slightly better for the week. The reaction by traders strongly suggests…

Sep 04, 2011 at 09:48 | Charles Kennedy

Ukrainian Energy Minister Yury Boyko told reporters that Royal Dutch Shell will invest $800 million in geological exploration and production of shale gas in eastern Ukraine. After signing the contract…

Sep 03, 2011 at 10:53 | Charles Kennedy

Exxon Mobil Corp, the largest U.S. oil company, will spend up to $76.3 million to explore and develop shale oil and natural gas in Argentina’s Neuquén basin in collaboration with…