Another day, another dollar (rally in oil prices). The tag-team of dollar weakness and production freeze hopes combine again to rally crude prices higher for yet another day.…
With the Brent premium over the WTI price rising to US$2.50 per barrel on Tuesday – the most in six months – oil traders hastened to procure…
Despite low crude prices, Qatar’s non-oil economy is still strong – unlike the more sluggish growth of neighboring Gulf countries – and its demand for refined oil products…
“How much more productive can these new wells get?” I asked my host who had kindly invited me on a field trip to some of western Canada’s most…
Saudi Arabia suggests it may be increasing its August crude output to a new all-time high as it could give it more leverage to influence the September informal…
After months of street protests and political paralysis, the Iraqi parliament approved five of six cabinet nominees by Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi, including the country’s new oil…
Since its inception at Shell in the late 1960s, scenario planning has become an important part of corporate strategy. Business forecasts often come with the assumption that…
Like many Americans, I am an avid listener to American Public Radio’s Marketplace Show. As their website proudly proclaims: Marketplace [is] the most widely heard program on business…
The North Dakota Industrial Commission (NDIC) reported June crude plus condensate (C+C) output on August 12, 2016. North Dakota(ND) Bakken/Three Forks (BTF) output fell by 20.46 kb/d in…
Today's weekly EIA inventory report has provided a very (very) welcome distraction from the production freeze jawboning. A solid draw to crude stocks, helped in large part by…
Oil prices began climbing shortly after the EIA published its weekly inventory report on Wednesday, which showed that crude oil inventories last week fell by 2.5 million…
Iran has not yet made a decision on whether or not it will join the OPEC meeting next month, and according to officials there, production levels have…
Last week, Venezuelans lined up at their westerly border to visit Colombia for just a few hours and buy the essential everyday supplies once offered to them at…
Global oil markets have become volatile once more as the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) announced on August 8 that they will hold informal talks during the…
China has been working on developing its shale gas resources for a few years now, with mixed success, mainly because of the difficult geology. But times are a…
It has not been a pleasant couple of years for the vast majority of energy companies or their investors. But perhaps the hardest hit area of all has…
Oil prices hit one a month high on Monday thanks to speculation about potential producer curbs on supply and new data from market intelligence firm Genscape showing an estimated…
After what feels like 23 days of rallying amid conflicting commentary from various key global producers about a potential production freeze, prices have hit the pause button today,…
The Permian Basin, after suffering a downturn in production, is poised to rebound next month. That prediction comes from the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s Productivity Report. The…
Preoccupied with oil prices, API and EIA production reports and rig counts, most U.S. oil industry watchers miss one quiet segment of this industry that is actually thriving…