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…
Oil prices staged a strong rally on Thursday, moving up 4% by the end of the day thanks to positive forecasts from the IEA and comments from the Saudis.
This week’s Baker Hughes figures saw the largest jump in the American natural gas and oil rig count this year. The combined count stood 17 rigs higher than…
With a weaker dollar in cahoots with ongoing hope spurred on by OPEC murmurs and rumors, crude is ripping higher into the weekend. Hark, here are five things…
WTI is now up 14% from its lows last week, with Sept 2016 trading back above $44.50 at 3-week highs. Oil's rapid OPEC-headline-driven recovery continues...
China’s crude oil production dived 8.1 percent annually in July 2016, reaching the lowest daily output since October 2011, as domestic oil companies cut investments due to…
The Kingdom is struggling with weak GDP growth, higher fees and taxes, and an economy that is unable to pay the dues to its workers, leaving thousands of…
Last December, the United States government voted to lift four-decades of restrictions on crude oil exports as part of a bipartisan effort to prevent another…
Persistently low oil prices have had a devastating effect on the economies of all major oil producers/exporters who are accustomed to a price regime of over $100/b. The…
The International Energy Agency (IEA) revised down on Thursday its 2017 forecast for world oil demand growth amid a dimmer outlook on the global economy, somewhat echoing…
Russia may not be able to sell its stake in Rosneft in 2016 As low oil prices continue to put pressure on the Russian budget, the government in…