Besides its important geo-strategic location,…
The Texas energy grid is…
The global upstream M&A market…
The latest oil price decline has been blamed on several things, including anxiety about the state of the global economy, the sanction waivers Washington granted Iran’s biggest crude oil buyers,…
Unlike many oil and gas firms who had given up some of their acreage in the Permian before the shale revolution, supermajor Chevron and its legacy companies have been sticking…
Oil markets are subject to some compelling story lines right now. Trump/Xi relations are holding risk markets hostage. The US Fed seems to be in a holding pattern on rate…
Sources - Geopolitical consultant to Fortune 500 companies in the Americas- High-level Scottish government official- Energy consultant to Scottish government- EU economic analyst in Brussels Venezuela: The…
On February 16, 2019, Nigeria will start off its general elections during which voters will elect the President, National Assembly and an overwhelming majority of governors. Elections traditionally are a…
Having written last week that Venezuela was staggering on through seemingly endless social and economic crises, an end game may finally be insight. It is impossible to predict when a…
U.S. sanctions against Venezuela, announced this Monday as a part of a political pressure campaign exerted on President Nicolás Maduro, have rocked the oil industry which is still struggling to…
In what would be an early geopolitical win for Moscow, German news agency DW reported yesterday, citing one of the project’s engineers, that the Nord Stream 2 natural gas…
It should be plain to see by now for those who follow energy news that the Philippines is not only struggling to put its first LNG import terminal in place…
The Aramco IPO fog has been partly cleared up, after Amin Nasser, Aramco’s CEO, opened up to the press during a meeting at the World Economic Forum (WEF)…
As international prices inched up in the aftermath of Washington’s latest sanctions against Venezuela, the Energy Information Administration reported a build in crude oil inventories for the week to…
The shale gas bonanza may finally be slowing after a decade of skyrocketing growth. In 2018, the U.S. natural gas industry broke new production records, but demand rose to new…
The Trump administration stepped up its effort at regime change in Venezuela on Monday, announcing sanctions intended to cripple the country’s oil sector. The U.S. government will bar most transactions…
Digital technology adoption in all stages of upstream operations in the oil and gas industry has seen a steep rise recently. While a lot has been written about the benefits…
Europe has long been considered as the ‘sink’ of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) market, absorbing the cargoes that don’t get sold on the booming Asian market. LNG analysts and…
China continues to dominate the world’s electric vehicle sales, but a new study finds that a good chunk of it is going to fleets to meet government mandates as subsidies…
After a selloff on Monday, oil prices bounced back at the start of trading on Tuesday.(Click to enlarge)
Libya’s largest oil field, Sharara, will not reopen until the armed group that has been occupying it for nearly two months backs down and leaves, the chairman of the National…
Saudi Arabia is determined to restore the balance on the oil market and is cutting deeper than required in the OPEC+ deal, with February crude production likely close to 10.1…
The trump administration announced new sanctions on Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA, which will significantly reduce its crude oil exports to Gulf Coast refiners, Reuters reports, without adding any…