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The oil bears are gaining leverage over the bulls as confidence in the stability of crude prices continues to wane. Oil prices traded above $50 per barrel for most of…
Two months ago we first suggested that OPEC may be fabricating data about its production cuts - and certainly overstating the "success" of the Vienna production cut deal -…
In a bid to defend its Asian market share amid OPEC’s production cuts, Saudi Arabia is lowering yet again the official selling prices (OSPs) for the crude grades it sells…
Oil prices are heading lower as we jump into the fifth month of the year, amid concerns from a mixed bag of global economic data and increasing exports from Libya.…
Saudi Arabia’s state-held oil giant Saudi Aramco will be launching in 2018 the revamped Muajjiz oil terminal on the Red Sea that would raise the Kingdom’s oil loading and export…
OPEC could extend its crude oil production cut agreement by less than six months – the period that is widely assumed to be the logical continuation of the initial deal,…
Optimism surrounding the potential increase in oil prices is fading with WTI back below $50 per barrel. Nevertheless, the oil industry is doing much better than it was last year.…
Speaking this week at the Bloomberg New Energy Finance conference in New York, Total SA’s chief energy economist, Joel Couse, forecasted that EVs will make up 15 to 30…
Despite the recent flight of investment from the west Canadian tar sands, Canada hasn’t deviated from its course and continues to embrace major energy projects, particularly the ones designed to…
The first quarter of the year saw record-high oil and gas M&A activity in the U.S., with the value of deals topping US$73 billion – a whopping 160-percent annual increase…
Indonesia is ambitiously planning to bring in $200 billion in new oil investment as local production declines and demand grows. As part of the plan, Bloomberg reports, Jakarta will…
On April 6, Italy’s Lazio Regional Administrative Court (LRAC) suspended the environmental impact permit for the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), which would have allowed for the relocation of olive trees that…
Many carmakers, and not just Tesla, have been developing electric vehicles, betting on the expected continuous rise of battery-powered cars in the future. Now it’s not only carmakers that predict…
Is sand the next battleground for energy development? The early salvos are taking place in Minnesota’s Winona County. In late 2016, Winona County commissioners voted to ban what the Minneapolis…
An Argonne National Laboratory team of researchers has identified one of the major culprits in capacity fade of high-energy lithium-ion batteries. Scientists refer to a battery becoming old is…
While periodic anti-government protests are met with a strong security response, regarding Belarus’ relationship with Moscow, the weak status of the opposition and the economic interest found in maintaining the…
10 years ago, the concept of self-driving cars seemed the stuff of science-fiction. Today, self-driving cars are not an uncommon sight in some cities and the U.K. government has just…
Demand for lithium, frequently referred to as "white petroleum," is expected to triple by 2025, as it has become an irreplaceable component of rechargeable batteries used in high tech devices…
Negativity has almost never been as high as I’ve seen it in the past several days for the oil space. And, to be fair, I can understand it easily –…
A couple of weeks ago I opined in these very pages that WTI was essentially trading in a range created by sensitivity to its own price. The theory was that…