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Dec 19, 2014 at 14:28

Mexico’s sweeping energy reforms and Washington’s normalization of relations with Cuba are both great victories of 2014, but issues of security dull the potential for major projects in Mexico, while…

Dec 19, 2014 at 14:18

Sesame Street is better at math than the oil companies are right now. Virtually every midsized oil exploration and production company has recently claimed not only to maintain production levels…

Dec 19, 2014 at 14:14

This big collapse in the price of oil that has occurred in the second half of this year is the result of a combination of factors. Dollar strength as other…

Dec 19, 2014 at 14:00

  Oil prices may be lower than they have been in over a half decade, but that hasn’t slowed the interest in Canada’s oil reserves off of its east coast.…

Dec 19, 2014 at 13:47

Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict The Sudans: Where Oil Fits in A year ago this week, South Sudan became embroiled in a civil war that has so far killed tens of…

Dec 19, 2014 at 13:45

Crude Oil OutlookOversupply continued to make it hard for…

Dec 18, 2014 at 17:45

Energy stockholders have been watching in horror as their investments tank and those with a short time frame are considering cutting their losses, as the oil price rout looks certain…

Dec 18, 2014 at 17:41

Instead of letting fuel prices fall, several countries are taking advantage of lower oil prices by scrapping fuel subsidies. Oil prices are at a five-year low,…

Dec 18, 2014 at 17:35

The state of New York will ban hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, because of the potential it holds for creating a public health risk and its questionable economic benefits. Gov. Andrew…

Dec 18, 2014 at 17:29

On December 15, 2013, fierce fighting broke out in South Sudan’s capital, Juba. Rebel forces loyal to Machar targeted South Sudan’s oil fields,…

Dec 18, 2014 at 17:23

A new Breakthrough analysis looks at regional power generation data and finds that cheap natural gas has overwhelmingly displaced coal generation,…

Dec 17, 2014 at 14:58

A couple of weeks ago I had a post titled The 2014 Oil Price Crash Explained. In this post I use the empirical supply and demand dynamic described in…

Dec 17, 2014 at 14:35

The ruble is dying, and fast. In what is now being dubbed ‘Black Monday’ the ruble’s value to the dollar dropped nearly 15 percent. Tuesday brought no respite and the…

Dec 17, 2014 at 14:11

Kenya may soon be home to the largest wind project on the continent of Africa. Danish wind company Vestas won a contract to provide 365 turbines for a 310…

Dec 17, 2014 at 14:01

The Spanish energy company Repsol will buy Canada’s Talisman Energy Inc. for $8.3 billion in cash in a deal that would immediately double Repsol’s oil production and staff. Repsol and…

Dec 17, 2014 at 13:40

November 18, 2014: it’s a day that should live forever in history. On that day, in the city of Yiwu in China’s Zhejiang province, 300 kilometers south of Shanghai, the…

Dec 17, 2014 at 12:52

Astana’s language and nationality policies have put Kazakhstan at risk of becoming a second Ukraine in 2015, according to Ilya Namovir, a Russian linguist who edits the “Russians in Kazakhstan”…

Dec 16, 2014 at 14:49

As oil prices show no sign of recovery, Russia is facing a sudden and acute currency crisis. Oil prices have essentially dropped by half in just a few months, and…

Dec 16, 2014 at 14:40

The advent of liquefied natural gas (LNG) has revolutionized the way the commodity is transported and has brought increased parity to traditional pipeline relationships. In that regard, the United States’…

Dec 16, 2014 at 14:28

When I last wrote about the global supply of oil, it was back in October, as the fall in oil prices was developing. Since then the price has continued to…