The Vilification of Oil As a Canadian I have witnessed firsthand the vilification of Canada’s oil sands. Canadians concerned with the effect oil sands have on the world…
Today, the United States Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management released 348 pages of new Requirements for Exploratory Drilling on the Arctic…
So, here we are, biding our time with our core oil portfolio, watching oil idle in the mid-$40’s and as the John Mayer song goes, “Waiting on the…
I have, on many occasions in the past in these pages, touched on the relationship between oil and the U.S. Dollar. The basics of that relationship are obvious:…
Friday, July 8, 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 the energy…
Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict The Brexit Fallout We’ve been ignoring Brexit largely on the Global Energy Advisory because, well, no one on this side of the…
September Crude Oil futures have been trading mostly lower since the U.K. voted to leave the Euro Zone, a move that could lead to a recession in Britain…
We begin by taking a look at some of the critical data in the energy markets this week, which reveals that despite the second consecutive increase in the oil rig…
The U.S. oil rig count rose by 10, while natural gas lost one rig, week-on-week, bringing the total rig count increase last week to 9, for 440 rigs…
Crude is lacking conviction to finish the week – being pushed and prodded around: caught in the undertow of rising equity markets, but being held in check by…
There’s been a lot of press lately about OPEC’s effect on oil prices. With many observers wondering if surging crude exports from places like Saudi Arabia and Iran will hold…
In an industry where anything could happen, surprises—often unwelcomed—are hard to come by. Oil is exactly such an industry at the moment. No one is sure where oil…
OPEC has captured its largest share of the oil market since 1975, which could be seen as a vindication of the cartel’s strategy over the past two years.…
Large oil and gas companies seem to be looking at new opportunities to invest, to capitalize on the future growth in oil demand. The confidence to invest in…
It’s a rough time to be an investment banker. Between Brexit crippling Europe and China worries depressing U.S. firms, investment banking transactions volume has been relatively weak leading…
Electric companies, at least the ones trading on the U.S. stock exchanges, are either fully regulated, partly regulated/partly competitive or fully competitive entities. Most of the old line,…
The oil markets have fallen back from the $50 per barrel mark due to questionable Chinese demand and an expectation of early restoration of supply outages. Crude is…
Oil prices jumped on Wednesday in early trading as global stock markets rose and crude oil inventories were expected to fall sharply in the U.S., but as the…
The long-awaited report of John Chilcot, a senior UK civil servant, on the Iraqi War and the events that led to it has revealed that the UK energy business had…
It’s been a roller-coaster couple of weeks for copper. With the Brexit scare dropping the price nearly 4 percent in a day — only to come…