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Louisiana Light • 2 days | 86.49 | -0.63 | -0.72% | ||
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Bonny Light • 23 hours | 88.40 | -0.92 | -1.03% | ||
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Opec Basket • 2 days | 88.45 | +1.94 | +2.24% | ||
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Mars US • 174 days | 77.26 | -1.51 | -1.92% | ||
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Gasoline • 29 mins | 2.769 | +0.011 | +0.41% |
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Bonny Light • 23 hours | 88.40 | -0.92 | -1.03% | ||
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Girassol • 23 hours | 89.03 | -0.87 | -0.97% | ||
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Opec Basket • 2 days | 88.45 | +1.94 | +2.24% |
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Peace Sour • 22 hours | 76.01 | -0.55 | -0.72% | ||
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Light Sour Blend • 22 hours | 79.06 | -0.55 | -0.69% | ||
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Syncrude Sweet Premium • 22 hours | 86.01 | -0.55 | -0.64% | ||
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Central Alberta • 22 hours | 76.41 | -0.55 | -0.71% |
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Eagle Ford • 2 days | 79.29 | -0.04 | -0.05% | ||
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Oklahoma Sweet • 2 days | 79.25 | -0.50 | -0.63% | ||
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Kansas Common • 23 hours | 73.75 | +0.75 | +1.03% | ||
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Buena Vista • 2 days | 87.23 | -0.55 | -0.63% |
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Waste Wood: Norway Taps into a Huge Source of Biomass Fuel
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Technical Review of the Energy Markets – 23rd May 2013
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U.S. Racing Against Shale Gas Clock
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Assad is Back, and Syrian Peace Will Be on His Terms
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As Natural Gas Prices Rise, Who Stands to Lose the Most?
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Third Party Tests Prove Rossi’s E-Cat HT2 Works
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New Material Cleans Oil at Faster Rate, Allows Oil to be Collected and Reused
Big oil spills are an environmental and public health disaster – not to mention an economic one. The last big oil spill, the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill resulted in millions…
Prices are Set to Rise, but Survival is Not Guaranteed for Natural Gas Companies
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Technical Review of the Energy Markets – 22nd May 2013
WTI Crude hit profit taking as predicted hitting out target of 95.50 & in fact bottomed exactly here. We could continue lower today for good support at 94.50/40 & a…
Playing with Oil and Fire
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Are Pipeline Spills a Foregone Conclusion?
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Billionaire Soros Hits the Energy Scene with New Gusto
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Gazprom Finds Little Reason to Celebrate on its 20th Birthday
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How Would the World Change if the International Energy Trade Transformed?
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Don’t Get Excited by the Dead Cat Bounce in Gold Prices
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Commodity Update: Open Interest Analysis for May 20th, 2013
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