Afghanistan may have mouth-watering oil riches, but opium still rules this economy amid a lack of any real investment in getting oil and gas out of the ground.…
One unexpected casualty of the oil price downturn is the self-respect of some energy investors. Equity investors are the owners of publicly traded companies and companies’ sole purpose…
With OPEC out, is this what the new normal looks like for the oil and gas industry? Last Wednesday’s 1.1 million-barrel build in U.S. crude oil inventories drove…
Renewable energy technology has been split into two camps since it became a reality around the turn of the century. On the one hand there are the passionate…
Cheniere Energy has long been my favorite contrarian indicator in the U.S. natural gas market. For those unfamiliar with the term, a contrarian indicator is an event which suggests…
Oil is carrying on where it left off last week, rallying higher on the low likelihood event of a production freeze by key global producers. As rumors and…
Following his bearish note last week, Morgan Stanley's oil analyst Adam Longson is out with a new report, in which he accurately explains that the recent oil-price…
Russia is still negotiating an oil production freeze with OPEC, and more specifically with the organization’s number-one producer Saudi Arabia, Energy Minister Alexandr Novak said, in an…
Delta Airlines recently experienced what it called a power outage in its home base of Atlanta, Georgia, causing all the company’s computers to go offline—all of them. This…
The drama of Britain’s stalled nuclear facility at Hinkley Point C grew more Shakesperean this week, with the Chinese firm involved in its construction now under investigation…
Sometimes reality is stranger than fiction as the old adage goes. Scientists at Penn State studying a distant star called KIC 8462852 have released a new study…
If you thought renewable energy was the big thing of our times, you’d be only partially right. The bigger thing is energy storage – the key to making…
Tesla’s increasingly ambitious plans to rule not only the electric vehicle space but also the solar energy space are likely to become more difficult to achieve over the…
During the glory days of Margaret Thatcher, the British instituted a new kind of utility regulation. It was modeled after a price control scheme designed for a monopolistic…
The sub-sectors of energy are where big money is made in trading oil stocks – we must decide where the next move will be and be ahead of…
In financial markets, very few things are predictable; if they were we would all be fabulously wealthy. Some things, though, definitely fall in the category of “extremely likely”.…
Friday, August 12 2016 In the latest edition of the Numbers Report, we’ll take a look at some of the most interesting figures put out this…
Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict • South Sudan now has a new Oil Ministry head, Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth. The change of ministers involved another five ministries as well and…
Crude oil futures followed through to the upside this week, confirming the previous week’s potentially bullish closing price reversal bottom. From the fundamental side, the catalyst behind the…
• WTI moved higher on the week by about $1.50 through Thursday as aggressive short covering tied to a bullish IEA report and an informal gathering of OPEC…