Crude oil prices inched lower…
Advanced economies are heavily reliant…
The United States has initiated…
2016 has been a tumultuous year in the energy markets, but both oil and natural gas are showing promising signs heading into the New Year, with oil prices having nearly…
Baker Hughes this week reported yet another increase in the U.S. oil and gas rig count, with 5 more rigs coming online. The previous two weeks have seen increases of…
Natural gas markets have experienced a dramatic change in just the past two months, upending forecasts about a protracted period of oversupply. The EIA reported a major decline in…
A lot happened in the energy sector in 2016, with two major stories leading the way. Both the surprising election of Donald Trump to the presidency, and OPEC’s November announcement…
Oil prices are rising and the worst of the downturn appears to be over. After two years of spending cuts, 2017 could mark the first time in several years that…
Even as oil prices are rebounding, we are closing out one of the worst years for the oil and gas industry in decades. In 2016, the U.S. oil and gas…
As an apparent wave of populism sweeps through the world, Theresa May prepares to trigger Article 50, and fears of a trade war between China and the U.S grow, financial markets…
The election of Donald Trump as President of the United States has a lot of implications for a lot of different segments of the economy – coal may not be…
The EIA this morning reported a build of 614,000 barrels in U.S. commercial crude oil inventories, a day after the American Petroleum Institute interrupted the oil rally by reporting…
OPEC is currently pumping crude at a record rate yet has managed to fool algos and "experts" into bidding up crude to multi-month highs on "promises" it will cut a…
Oil prices continue to edge up as 2016 comes to a close, a dramatic turnaround for the industry compared to the start of the year. In January, oil prices were…
Even with oil barely over half of what it fetched in June of 2014 and the active drilling rig count doing better than (December 20, 2016 – 257, December 16,…
Natural gas prices are soaring on cold weather and falling production, spreading optimistic conditions for gas producers for the first time in years. Natural gas spot prices are at their…
Investors appear to be increasingly confident that OPEC is going to live up to its word. Professional money managers have trimmed bearish bets on West Texas Intermediate to the…
Donald Trump in the White House and Theresa May in 10 Downing Street. They will open the door to more nuclear spending, no doubt. Prime minister May has already given…
Bit of a quiet week for major resource news. But several small items are suggesting some potentially explosive developments coming over the next several months. One of those comes in…
Natural gas prices are surging as cold weather eats into U.S. inventories, tightening the market much more quickly than many analysts had expected. The blast of Arctic weather in December…
Oil prices are up on expectations that OPEC will contribute to a faster balancing in 2017, with up to 1.8 million barrels per day in cuts along with some non-OPEC…
Call it the largest recycling project ever conceived. A group of engineers are looking to build a hydroelectric plant in Mineville, NY out of the existing underground tunnels in…
To begin, we will take a quick look at some of the critical figures and data in the energy markets before analyzing the key events of the week.