Oil prices have climbed by about 50 percent from their February lows, topping $40 per barrel. But the rally could be reaching its limits, at least…
One of the biggest oilfields in China, Daqing, has slipped into a loss of around $700 million over the first two months of this year, according…
Wind power may not be the cheapest, most efficient, or even most common form of renewable energy, but it is surely one of the most visually…
Most of the articles, reports about oil in the financial media since mid-2014 have been bearish, and oil prices more than reflect the bearishness. This article…
Today I discuss the factors that brought oil prices so far down and more recently back up. World oil production was essentially stagnant for seven years…
BP and Statoil have announced that they will temporarily withdraw some of their staff from two natural gas treatment plants in Algeria after the facilities suffered…
Three hundred and thirty-one years after the birth of Johann Sebastian Bach, and the market is once again looking composed, despite its recent push to multi-month…
Despite the U.S. saying no to Atlantic drilling, the news wasn’t all bad for the oil and gas business this week. Even as the Obama administration…
The U.S. horizontal land rig count fell 6 to 369 and the total land rig count fell 4 to 446. Tight oil rigs dropped 3. The Bakken decreased 1, the…
The major beneficiary of the 54 percent jump in oil prices from the lows of $26 per barrel is the U.S. shale oil industry, which will…
Is fracking the way forward? The answer of course depends on how you define forward, and further, if that path is a straight line. Consider the…
2008 was a bad year. The economic recession was the worst since the Great Depression, and many people thought it would take the economy a decade…
Much of the current oil price rally – up about 50 percent in less than two months – is due to the growing optimism in the…
The way things are shaping up on the oil price panic barometer, 17 April is now a D-Day of sorts for the industry. It’s the day…
Economic growth never seems to be as high as those making forecasts would like it to be. This is a record of recent forecasts by the…
Senegal’s energy sector has recently got a huge boost after U.S. and UK companies announced oil and gas findings off the coast of the West African…
A few words about this ‘Rapid Roundup” of energy names before I start reeling them off (or as many as I can reasonably do). My request…
If the last few weeks in the commodity markets have proved one thing it is that the strongest fundamental influence on pricing in those markets is…
Friday, March 18, 2016 In the latest edition of the Numbers Report, we’ll take a look at some of the most interesting…
Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict • Kurdish Peshmerga forces, Shi'ite militia’s and Iraq's army are reportedly preparing to launch a joint offensive against…