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Has Big Oil Bought Into The Oil Price Recovery?

Feb 02, 2017 at 16:52 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Since oil prices recovered to over US$50 per barrel, analysts have started calling the bottom of the investment cycle in the oil industry. But while many U.S. onshore drillers are…

Why The Electric Car Boom Could Cause Another Oil Price Crash

Feb 02, 2017 at 16:33 | Nick Cunningham

A 2014-style oil price meltdown could occur again. Only this time, instead of a sudden surge of supply, the culprit will be the fast adoption of electric vehicles, which will…

The 150,000 Oil Jobs That May Never Come Back

Feb 02, 2017 at 16:26 | Michael McDonald

The political discourse last year has largely been dominated by the absence of jobs and wage growth in the blue collar space. For many blue collar workers, the energy sector…

New Methane Leak Detector Could Save Oil Industry $30 Billion Per Year

Feb 02, 2017 at 14:57 | Irina Slav

Laser-based detectors are the core of three recently publicized methane detection projects that aim to curb uncontrolled methane emissions at oil and gas fields and storage sites. The projects are…

Despite High Risks, Investors Remain Bullish On Energy

Feb 02, 2017 at 14:45 | Michael McDonald

Notwithstanding Monday’s big stock market drop, the outlook for investors is getting cloudier. While President Trump and the Republicans have made many promises that appeal to investors such as corporate…

Saudis Raise March Crude Prices For All Customers

Feb 02, 2017 at 11:17 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Saudi Arabia has raised the prices of all grades it will be shipping to Asia, the U.S., Northwest Europe and the Mediterranean countries, with prices for Asian buyers increased more…

Oil Prices Stuck In Narrow Band, Capped By U.S. Shale Threat

Feb 02, 2017 at 11:08 | Matt Smith

Yes, it's Groundhog Day (again), and that dastardly Punxsutawney Phil has seen his shadow, predicting six more weeks of winter. Fortunately, he's no good at forecasting (unlike the woolly worm),…

Is The Kremlin Funding A Campaign That Undermines U.S. Fracking?

Feb 01, 2017 at 16:28 | Irina Slav

The recent National Intelligence Council report assessing the involvement of Russia in last year’s U.S. presidential elections spurred a flurry of media reports suggesting that Russia is heavily involved…

The Canadian Comeback: Oil Rig Productivity Takes A Huge Leap

Feb 01, 2017 at 16:21 | Peter Tertzakian

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck? Okay, that’s trite, but assuming a woodchuck can chuck wood, the classic children’s alliteration leads economists to think about productivity, poetically. Now I…

U.S. Shale Sees Rebound In 2017…But Mostly From The Permian

Feb 01, 2017 at 16:12 | Nick Cunningham

The oil industry invested more than $28 billion in buying up land in the Permian Basin in 2016, three times the amount spent in 2015, according to Reuters. That…

Top 10 Bankruptcies Of 2016 Feature 9 Energy Firms

Feb 01, 2017 at 15:53 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Low oil prices and the distress of the solar, coal, and oil and gas producers resulted in nine energy firms making the top 10 of public company bankruptcies for 2016…

Is Deepwater Drilling About To Make A Comeback?

Feb 01, 2017 at 14:29 | Michael McDonald

The most unloved sector in energy is starting to “sea” slightly sunnier skies on the ocean’s horizon. The decline in oil prices has had a dramatic effect on many investors’…

Russia Claims Global Oil Output Down By 1.4M Bpd

Feb 01, 2017 at 14:02 | Damir Kaletovic

Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak has announced that global oil output was cut by 1.4 million barrels per day last month, in the aftermath of the deal between OPEC…

Are Dakota Access And Keystone XL Really That ‘Dangerous’?

Feb 01, 2017 at 13:06 | Barry Stevens

“show me a pipe and I will show you a leak” …. Common Sense It’s no secret that the Keystone XL (KXL) and Dakota Access Pipelines were resurrected last week…

Dakota Access Pipeline Set For Completion After Army Engineers' Approval

Feb 01, 2017 at 10:16 | Tsvetana Paraskova

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will be granting shortly the last approval needed for the completion of the Dakota Access Pipeline, North Dakota’s Republican U.S. Senator John Hoeven and…

Oil Prices Fall After Another Major Build In Inventories

Feb 01, 2017 at 09:54 | Irina Slav

The Energy Information Administration today reported a 6.5-million-barrel increase in commercial crude oil stocks in the U.S., a day after the American Petroleum Institute reported a smaller build in…

Why Is This Private Equity Fund Scooping Up Billions In North Sea Assets

Feb 01, 2017 at 09:26 | Dave Forest

I’ve been discussing the return of big oil and gas M&A the last several weeks. And yesterday we got more confirmation it’s “money on” right now in the global…

The Oil War Is Only Just Getting Started

Jan 31, 2017 at 15:47 | Tsvetana Paraskova

It’s been a month now that investors and analysts have been closely watching two main drivers for oil prices: how OPEC is doing with the supply-cut deal, and how U.S.…

Is Iran Planning On Breaking Its OPEC Pledge?

Jan 31, 2017 at 15:42 | Gregory Brew

According to a provision of the recent OPEC production deal, the Islamic Republic of Iran is mandated to keep production below a threshold of 3.797 million bpd. Yet this…

Trump’s Trade War With Mexico Could Crash Natural Gas Prices

Jan 31, 2017 at 15:36 | Irina Slav

The much hyped “trade war” that Donald Trump is apparently preparing for the southern neighbor of the U.S. could be over before its starts, as the full extent of the…

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