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Mar 31, 2016 at 11:21

Twenty-seven years to the day after Guns N’ Roses released the single ‘Patience’ (anyone feel old? Nope? Me neither…), and the crude market is trying to…

Mar 30, 2016 at 17:11

Lenders to the oil and gas industry have been extraordinarily lenient amid the worst downturn in decades, allowing indebted companies to survive a little while longer…

Mar 30, 2016 at 17:10

Royal Dutch Shell has confirmed media reports that it is looking to sell part of its production holdings in the North Sea, saying all these…

Mar 30, 2016 at 16:49

There has been a lot of focus on the collapse of the energy industry over the last two years and how badly bruised many of the…

Mar 30, 2016 at 16:49

Without exception, the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) is all about Atomic Energy Defense (AED). Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), on the other hand, are…

Mar 30, 2016 at 11:54

After staging a 50 percent rally between February and March, oil prices have bounced around, moving up or down on a given day depending on the news cycle. The persistent…

Mar 30, 2016 at 11:10

Twenty-three years to the day after Charlie Brown hit his first home run in the Peanuts comic strip, and crude prices are swinging for the fences…

Mar 30, 2016 at 10:54

A couple of updates. One quick, and one at greater length. First, from the energy sector of East Africa — where I discussed Monday how

Mar 29, 2016 at 16:12

Since February, major investors have predicted that oil prices were poised for a huge rally. Hedge funds and money managers piled into bets on rising oil…

Mar 29, 2016 at 15:58

The United States and Canada work well together. The countries share the world’s largest and most comprehensive trade relationship, exchanging more than $2 billion per…

Mar 29, 2016 at 15:53

One of the major disappointments for renewable energy in the last fifteen years has been the lack of progress on next generation nuclear reactors. While the…

Mar 29, 2016 at 15:41

After suffering large losses in 2014, trying to find a bottom in crude oil, the hedge fund industry wizened up: In 2015, it reduced its weightage…

Mar 29, 2016 at 14:07

As oil rebounded from 2-week lows on intraday trading on Tuesday,  we will take a quick look at some of the critical figures and data in the energy markets this…

Mar 29, 2016 at 11:52

In late September, during the peak of fall borrowing base redetermination, many oil and gas companies got their first glimpse of just how bad their liquidity would get when, as…

Mar 29, 2016 at 10:54

One hundred and sixty-eight years to the day after Niagara Falls stopped flowing due to an ice jam, and ongoing skepticism about a coordinated oil production…

Mar 29, 2016 at 10:42

Critical and unexpected development with one of the world’s largest natural projects the last couple days. With a major court decision putting the future of the development in doubt —…

Mar 28, 2016 at 16:39

Props to Saudi Arabia. Unlike other producers, including U.S. shale producers, it maintained financial strength and flexibility during the last boom. When it began to shift…

Mar 28, 2016 at 16:39

For a while there in January and early February investors started to get truly nervous about the energy sector. Everyone knows the energy industry itself is…

Mar 28, 2016 at 16:29

Tanzania made its way onto the world energy map beginning in 2011 with a series of consecutive finds; now it’s making history again with another major…

Mar 28, 2016 at 16:23

Solar energy is rapidly becoming one of the top choices for new electricity capacity as costs continue to decline and generous public policies accelerate tremendous…