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Mar 27, 2015 at 13:51

The headline for the week was Saudi Arabia’s attack on rebels in Yemen, which threatens to ignite tensions between regional rivalries in the Middle East. The…

Mar 27, 2015 at 12:05

Argentina, once a regional energy leader, is now better known for financial busts and bombastic politicians than hydrocarbons prospects. Still, with a resource potential both vast…

Mar 27, 2015 at 11:33

As I discussed last week, the commentary around the global coal business has been doom and gloom lately. But few investors recognize that the market is…

Mar 26, 2015 at 18:26

The back and forth, the ebb and flow, or business as usual continues in Eastern Europe. As another interim gas deal approaches its deadline, Ukraine will…

Mar 26, 2015 at 18:04

We are living in a world obsessed with oil and its price movements. Some time back, when all the trade pundits were predicting a stable 100$…

Mar 26, 2015 at 12:53

Saudi Arabia launched airstrikes in Yemen, causing oil prices to jump on fears over Middle East instability. The markets clearly reacted with concern over the…

Mar 26, 2015 at 11:17

We are in an age of propaganda where most people argue viewpoints not based on facts but on selective perception basis. They cherry pick what supports…

Mar 26, 2015 at 10:56

Petrobras announced on March 24 that it has discovered a significant deposit of oil just of the coast of Rio de Janeiro. The company says…

Mar 26, 2015 at 10:44

One of the most ground-breaking changes in metals the last year was the Indonesian export ban. The government-mandated halt to shipments of unprocessed concentrates caused widespread…

Mar 25, 2015 at 19:01

The newest Mercedes autonomous car looks like a car on the outside but like a lounge on the inside, with four swivel seats facing each other…

Mar 25, 2015 at 18:49

The fifth anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster is approaching, but in the intervening years since the well blowout deep offshore, oil and gas drillers have…

Mar 25, 2015 at 18:36

If electricity and the management of power sector reforms are key to Nigeria’s economic future, crude oil/gas – and the mismanagement thereof – is at the…

Mar 25, 2015 at 18:05

So what do you do when you believe devoutly in hydraulic fracking but also understand that too much fracking is responsible for an oil glut that’s hammering the price of…

Mar 25, 2015 at 17:57

Two of the factors in the oil price crash are well constrained: 1) oversupply of expensive light tight oil (LTO) in North America and 2) the…

Mar 25, 2015 at 12:39

China imported coal at the slowest rate in almost four years, sending coal markets into a tailspin. For the month of February, China imported 5.86 million…

Mar 25, 2015 at 12:13

Brief, but very interesting note this week from world LNG-hotspot Australia. Where it appears the environment is getting better for new project development - despite an…

Mar 24, 2015 at 18:30

The meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex in 2011 following the Japanese tsunami forced a major rethink of nuclear power as a safe form of…

Mar 24, 2015 at 18:21

If nuclear power is going to succeed in the 21st century, there will need to be major innovations in controlling costs and enhancing safety. The generation…

Mar 24, 2015 at 18:08

Ukraine plans to suspend its gas purchases from Russia on April 1, the day after the current contract expires, in an effort to strengthen Kiev’s bargaining…

Mar 24, 2015 at 17:58

Norway is stuck between a rock and a hard place. Last week, the Norges Bank defied market expectations by leaving rates unchanged citing an overheating housing…