A campaign to restrict fracking in Colorado looks set to fall short, and the shale companies in the state are no doubt starting to breathe a sigh of…
Oil prices are retracing to start the week, as producer rhetoric rumbles on, and the U.S. dollar strengthens. Hark, here are five things to consider in oil markets…
Iraqi media are reporting that ISIS militants have opened the taps of an oil pipeline in the town of Qayyarah, in northern Iraq. Crude is flowing in…
2016 has been a roller coaster year for the oil traders. Markets had a near 100 percent rise from February lows, followed by a drop of more than…
A glitch interrupted the first-ever U.S. livestream of an oil lease sale on Wednesday, and although it didn’t affect the bidding, this epic fail provided just the right…
Several dozen environmental groups are once again working together to stop a major oil pipeline, hoping to bring back the magic of the fight against the Keystone XL…
Ford is the latest major company to jump on the driverless vehicles bandwagon announcing that it intends to develop fully autonomous vehicles. That announcement is just the latest…
Solar power has been getting all of the proverbial sunlight for the last few years. Most of the focus and attention from environmentalists, regulators, and others has been…
On August 8, 2016, America’s Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gave what was billed as a major economic policy speech in Detroit. In it, he laid out…
In this post I present some of the methods I have used to get estimates based on actual NDIC data on the Estimated Ultimate Recovery (EUR) for wells in the…
Oilfield produced water is an abundant resource in Texas, with a minimum estimated volume of 20 million barrels produced each day (actual production may now exceed 25 million…
When investing in energy companies, or anything else for that matter, we’re playing a bit of a game. There’s tons of information out there coming from oil companies…
Back on August 12th, just two short weeks ago, I laid out my reason for being bullish on oil, namely that I expected some serious “book talking” from…
Friday, August 26 2016 In the latest edition of the Numbers Report, we’ll take a look at some of the most interesting figures put out this week in…
Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict • Gazprom is likely to start turning its attention more to the East after the Polish anti-trust authorities slammed the door in the Russian…
Sometimes markets are driven by trend-traders following hard supply and demand facts, sometimes they are driven by speculative buying in anticipation of a change in the fundamentals. The…
• Prompt WTI traded in a $48.40/$46.42 range through Thursday morning as bearish inputs included additional exports from Iraq following a completion of a deal between the Iraqi…
We begin by taking a quick look at some of the critical figures and data in the energy markets this week, which show that oil prices have bounced…
Friday’s Baker Hughes report heralded the end of eight straight weeks of U.S. oil rig gains, which boasted a net change of zero, hopefully subduing, even if…
As financial markets are distracted once more by Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, crude is not immune to this influence, making moves in response to the U.S. dollar's…