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Jan 09, 2015 at 17:04

British Columbia, Canada’s westernmost province, has banned the use of pipelines designed to transport liquid natural gas (LNG) to also carry oil from the tar sands deposits of neighboring Alberta…

Jan 09, 2015 at 16:56

This post is an update on total Light Tight Oil (LTO) extraction from Bakken in North Dakota based upon actual data as of October 2014 from North Dakota Industrial Commission…

Jan 09, 2015 at 16:32

Kyrgyzstan is happy because 60,000 customers in a potentially restive part of the country aren’t relying on dung to heat their homes; Uzbekistan again has revenue from the cross-border gas…

Jan 09, 2015 at 16:08

This week saw WTI prices break the psychological $50 threshold, compounding trader and oil company woes further. However, recent price updates from certain shale areas in the U.S. would seem…

Jan 09, 2015 at 13:50

In 2008, as money rushed out of the oil market and prices continued to collapse, a bottom for oil was nearly impossible to find. But one commercial factor gave a…

Jan 09, 2015 at 13:49

When the general mood in a market is gloomy and the bears have the upper hand, even good news can get overlooked, or rather overpowered. For…

Jan 09, 2015 at 13:46

Another week, another impressive fall in oil prices. There have been a series of psychological thresholds through which oil prices have crashed over the past few months. In the beginning…

Jan 09, 2015 at 13:40

Iraq/Syria Monitoring Report • We have been closely monitoring the situation in Kobani, Syria, on the Turkish border, as we detailed for subscribers in October. Earlier this week, Kurdish forces…

Jan 09, 2015 at 13:38

Natural Gas Outlook Natural Gas futures are proving to be one of the more interesting markets in early 2015. The first several days of the new year have seen the…

Jan 09, 2015 at 12:39

“The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam.”— Barack Hussein Obama (address to the United Nations General Assembly, September 2012) The jihadist murders at…

Jan 08, 2015 at 17:47

Picking an investment thesis in these challenging resource markets has never been more paramount to investors. The downward spiral of oil prices combined with a myriad of corporate factors such…

Jan 08, 2015 at 16:45

The collapse of the oil price has created losers and winners, and like every major movement in a commodity sector, the trick for investors is figuring out which side of…

Jan 08, 2015 at 16:32

The oil industry is facing rising debt from collapsing oil prices, but there could be another sector that becomes a casualty of the low oil price environment: liquefied natural gas…

Jan 08, 2015 at 16:21

The current low price of oil so far has been a mixed blessing for the world economy. Some countries, such as the poor OPEC member Venezuela, are hurt by the…

Jan 08, 2015 at 16:11

The price of oil is down. How should we expect the economy to perform in 2015 and 2016? Newspapers in the United States seem to emphasize…

Jan 08, 2015 at 15:50

Carbon Counterattack:  How Big Oil Is Responding to the Anti-Carbon Moment Around the world, carbon-based fuels are under attack. Increasingly grim economic pressures, growing…

Jan 07, 2015 at 17:17

Not that the market will care, but succession in Saudi Arabia is looming. At 90, King Abdullah has outlived several of his hopeful successors, but his health has rapidly deteriorated…

Jan 07, 2015 at 17:11

In recent years oil exploration companies have taken on more debt in order to finance their operations. The level of debt in the upstream sector – excluding integrated oil companies…

Jan 07, 2015 at 17:02

Ever since the Republican Party gained control of both houses of Congress, Mitch McConnell, then the Senate minority leader and now its majority leader, has promised repeatedly that approval of…

Jan 07, 2015 at 16:36

A few years ago I spent a good deal of time overseas. When you travel for an extended period, it is always interesting to begin to understand the perception that…