Baker Hughes reported an astonishing 20-rig gain this week to the number of active oil and gas rigs in the United States for its November 18th reporting period, bringing the…
As the U.S. dollar climbs higher and higher (and higher), the crude complex is getting blown over by the gale-force headwinds it is providing. We edge closer and closer to…
OPEC’s eagerly awaited production cut agreement may have just gotten even harder to reach as OPEC members meeting in Doha are now asking Iran to freeze its output at 3.92…
Good news for mining finance this week. With Australia’s EMR Capital announcing it has raised $860 million for a second investment fund targeting gold, copper, potash, and coking coal…
The U.S. Geological Survey just published an assessment of oil reserves for a section of the Permian Basin, revealing the largest estimate of continuous oil that the agency has…
The value of any commodity is based on its supply and the demand in the market. If one of them is disrupted, it affects prices. Natural gas has been a…
Microsoft Corporation has always been known for their image of environmental protection but this may be their biggest validation to date. The tech company announced on Monday they…
By now, the shock from Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election should be starting to subside, but this is hardly the case with worries over America’s course to…
Many economists would argue that there is a complex relationship between oil prices and inflation, comprising of many differing factors. There seems to have been a calming of that connection…
Crude is pushing higher, fanned by OPEC production cut hopes, but kept somewhat in check by rampant US dollar strength on the back of positive U.S. economic data. Hark,…
OPEC Production Cut of 1 MMBOPD Would Raise Oil Prices About $3; Equal Demand Growth Would Add another $4 As OPEC’s November 30 meeting in Vienna draws closer, the outlook…
OPEC’s oil production cut will cap its total production at 32.5 million barrels per day in order to balance the oil market, Saudi Arabia’s oil minister Khalid al-Falih said…
Some OPEC members are saying OPEC will do whatever it takes to make all members join the production cut agreement that’s been chewed over since late September—willing or unwilling. According…
Gold majors aren’t doing a lot of exploration these days. With leading producer Newmont saying last month it is focusing on just three places globally for greenfields projects. Two of…
One of the oil world’s longest and best kept secrets may finally be revealed. Saudi Arabia is preparing to unveil how much oil it holds, a closely guarded state secret…
Where is all this oil coming from? Millions of barrels of excess crude oil are weighing down tankers that are being filled from pipelines coming from fields where rows of…
If the oil industry’s upstream investments continue to be lower next year, there is a material risk that the world could end up with a shortage in new conventional supply…
While highly politically and economically charged behind-the-scenes OPEC talks are going on, the market and analysts are now factoring in another unknown that could come from outside OPEC and theoretically…
US LNG in Global Market: Exciting Opportunities and High Risks The LNG industry has been turned on its head by forces that could not been foreseen just…
In a world of post-truth democracy, it is fitting that President-Elect Donald Trump's new Director of the centre for Energy and Environment “is not a climate scientist. I'm just...the informed…