One hundred and fifty-one years after the birth of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and today is unfortunately shaping up to be anything but a pretty picture. The oil market is being…
When a nation develops a new mining code, it’s usually a good thing — today, new and more progressive regimes are in the works in several parts of Africa, like…
The Haynesville Shale play needs $6.50 gas prices to break even. With natural gas prices just above $2/Mcf (thousand cubic feet), we question the shale gas…
Oil markets will remain depressed through the fourth quarter of this year as oil storage levels continue to rise around the world. The closely watched EIA…
July 14. 2015 was a turning point for the Islamic Republic of Iran as the US and the European Union reached an agreement through which Iran…
The Treaty of Paris, signed in 1783 by representatives of King George III of England and the fledgling United States of America in a Paris hotel,…
Crude oil just capped off a third straight week of declines, as WTI nears the $40 per barrel threshold. Goldman Sachs is once again raising the…
Today is national espresso day, and while crude oil prices received an early morning caffeine shot from rhetoric out of Saudi Arabia, the effects of this are fading. Despite OPEC’s…
The copper market got a serious warning late last week. From a leading insider in the planet’s largest producing nation for the red metal. That’s Chile…
Natural gas spot prices continue to hover near multiyear lows, putting increased pressure on natural gas producers as revenues sink. Although rig counts have been falling…
As retailers across the U.S prepare themselves for this year’s Black Friday, most of them silently hope that this year’s consumer spending will be better than…
Ever since Tesla announced its PowerWall battery project earlier this year, interest in stationary storage and battery technology in general has been explosive. Now, Mercedes…
From a fundamental view, it probably couldn't get worse for oil. Stockpiles have added 33 million barrels in the last 8 weekly reports, prices are hovering at $40 and momentum…
The words “patience” and “traders” can rarely be found in the same sentence without a negative somewhere in between them. By its nature, trading appeals to people with mild forms…
Friday, November 20, 2015 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 What Paris Means The terrorist attack in Paris means more than most are willing to concede. Europe’s borders…
Unleaded Gasoline (Click to enlarge) Despite…
We start with an overview of last week’s most important data from the oil and gas sector:
I wrote in early August about how natural resource investment has been hitting surprising highs in 2015. And this week we got confirmation this is…
As Mike D from the Beastie Boys turns fifty today, WTI is trying to fight for its right to party on in forty-dollardom. (but failing). Brent…