OPEC is no longer functioning as a cohesive group. Is it time for OPEC to finally dissolve? The major oil-producing countries in the world heavily depend…
The collapse of oil prices has killed off any appetite that the oil industry had for megaprojects that cost tens of billions of dollars. With…
Times of hardship are times for consolidation, and Abu Dhabi has just announced what’s probably the biggest M&A deal this year in oil. The emirate will…
The only thing certain about any and all economic forecasts is that they are wrong. I don’t know why and don’t know in which direction, but…
With the resources to become a major LNG producer, Australia’s natural gas industry has been buffeted by market forces and instability. The primary reason: investments made several years…
U.S. production has remained surprisingly resilient amid the fall in oil prices, but data from the EIA today showed that production is beginning to come off…
Coming on the heels of the last few articles about DUCs (drilled uncompleted wells) another discussion that is beginning to occur between analysts and companies is the…
The fretting in the financial markets after Great Britain's voters narrowly decided to leave the European Union (EU), a move dubbed Brexit, was less about immediate…
The discovery of a massive helium deposit in Tanzania this week has excited both scientists and mining experts, yet for all its potential this new cache holds risks…
China appears willing to help Moldova become a nuclear power. But for now officials in Chi?in?u seem hesitant to go all-in on atomic energy. Chinese representatives from the…
Concentrating as we have on oil and the ongoing recovery in certain oily E+P’s, we’ve kind of ignored natural gas for the most part – and mostly for…
Over the last few months, market watchers have become accustomed to a situation, or rather a correlation, that makes no sense. Oil and stocks have tended to move…
Friday, July 1, 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 • Anti-Russian sanctions have taken their toll on the U.S. and European economies as well, the U.S. State Department admits.…
August Natural Gas futures soared this week to its highest level since the week-ending August 21, 2015. The catalyst behind the rally was a forecast for above average…
• Financial markets went into recovery mode this week as central bankers from the U.S. Fed, Bank of England, ECB and BoJ worked to reassure markets of their…
Oil prices pared some post Brexit loses on Thursday and Friday, but uncertainty has taken hold of oil markets. In the meantime, U.S. crude oil production continues to fall, lending…
ExxonMobil and its partner Hess Corp. have announced that the major discovery off the coast of Guyana, is a discovery that is much larger than previously expected. The Liza…
The number of active U.S. oil rigs rose by 11 to 341 this week according to oilfield services firm Baker Hughes, marking the fourth week of rises in the past…
As we charge into the second half of the year, with a long holiday weekend stretching out in front of us, oil has pared losses and appears to…