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Sep 11, 2014 at 18:25

The oil markets woke up at the end of the summer of 2014 realizing that there was not as much demand out there as they thought. Suddenly, the world is…

Sep 11, 2014 at 18:21

Geopolitical & Conflict UpdatesUkraine•    Ukraine has only about 20% of its oil demand filled at this time, with only 2 of its 6 refineries operating. Typically…

Sep 11, 2014 at 18:07

With crude oil and crude oil-related stocks exhibiting nearly free-fall characteristics, unless you’re willing to play the short-side after an almost three month sell-off, this week it may be best…

Sep 11, 2014 at 16:33

Global oil prices have slid in recent weeks, a trend that shows no signs of changing in the immediate future. The two main benchmarks for oil prices, Brent…

Sep 11, 2014 at 16:14

No one disputes that the amount of Russian gas being piped through Ukraine has been cut by at least 20 percent. But who’s responsible?Poland said Sept. 10 that…

Sep 11, 2014 at 16:00

The LNG (Liquid Natural Gas) countdown is on in Canada.  Within weeks, there are three major catalysts happening that could reshape the entire economy and labour market of western Canada.…

Sep 11, 2014 at 15:00

In this post I present “back of envelope” style calculations on the capital costs of renewables globally since 1998 and deduce that roughly $1.3 trillion has been spent installing wind…

Sep 11, 2014 at 11:58

The globe continues to see major structural changes in one particular commodity market these days.Thermal coal.Over the last few years, production has been rising rapidly from…

Sep 10, 2014 at 17:13

The oil sands industry is developing new technologies to reduce pollution and the impact on the lands where they operate – an increasing concern as extraction operations ramp up.

Sep 10, 2014 at 17:01

The American Midwest is enjoying a one-two punch of an economic boom thanks to hydraulic fracturing. The relatively new – and still controversial -- technique is not only generating more…

Sep 10, 2014 at 16:46

People who fish recreationally in the Gulf of Mexico may be entitled to up $585 million in compensation due to lost fishing opportunities following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Sep 10, 2014 at 16:34

Back in January 2013, the US Institute of Medicine published a report called U.S. Health in International Perspective: Shorter Lives, Poorer Health. This poor health outcome for US citizens…

Sep 10, 2014 at 10:32

If you're doing resource business in one spot on the planet this week, you can rest a little easier.Tanzania.The sector here had been thrown into…

Sep 09, 2014 at 17:01

For the terrorist group known as the Islamic State, Syria and Iraq were a good place to start their campaign, but in order to survive and prosper it knew from…

Sep 09, 2014 at 16:52

A new factory that hopes to break oil’s stranglehold over America’s transportation sector has just opened its doors in Iowa.The $275 million factory will churn out ethanol –…

Sep 09, 2014 at 16:43

The British government is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to limit payments by BP, the UK’s second-largest oil producer, to some victims of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in…

Sep 09, 2014 at 16:30

Energy efficiency has graduated from the “hidden fuel” to the “first fuel.”That’s the word from a new analysis the International Energy Agency published Tuesday, looking into the…

Sep 09, 2014 at 10:54

It's always interesting when big developments start happening in clusters. Suggesting that things are moving faster in a certain space.That seems to be the case the last few…

Sep 08, 2014 at 17:14

An investigation by The New York Times has found that several prominent Washington, D.C. think tanks have regularly taken donations from foreign entities in exchange for using their influence…

Sep 08, 2014 at 17:00

Any company will tell you that panic starts to set in once the confidence of the board or of investors begins to wane. This is precisely the situation in the…