Natural gas prices have started to ramp up on what I think should be the beginning of the next up leg. In March futures as seen in the chart above…
Over the past couple of years, the Oil and Gas equipment service industry has been evolving rapidly. With the introduction of new fracking techniques, increased safety regulations and domestic construction…
Iran is a member of OPEC, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. It ranks among the world's top four countries that hold both proven oil and natural gas reserves.…
Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM), France’s Total SA and Cenovus Energy Inc. (CVE) are all actually seeking the imposition of a tax on carbon dioxide emissions in Canada. It’s not…
Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM), the world’s biggest energy company by market cap, reported its 4Q profit at a five-year high boosted by its refining arm from growing supplies of…
US brewers have now taken up their case against fracking, worried that any potential contamination of ground water supplies would ruin their business. The process of brewing…
The Mali War will be neither simple nor quick, ‘though the players all wish it so. Timboctou, almost a year in the hands of militants, had fallen to…
You realise what a great job electricity networks do on the rare occasions when they break down. Most of the conveniences of modern life are sustained by that wire to…
With the stock market setting new 5-year highs, I was interested to take another look at some of the long-term fundamentals underlying equity values.On the one hand, I'm…
It certainly has been a year of gnashing teeth and tearing hair for inveterate gold bugs (GLD). They got everything they wanted on the fundamental side. Runaway printing presses from…
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper may be about to get tough on offshore oil developers and pipeline companies with legislation that could make them liable for billions of dollars in…
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced he was becoming the latest in a long line of officials headed for the exits doors as President Barack Obama begins his second term.…
The title of the 30 January report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) Office of Special Projects says it all. “AFGHAN NATIONAL SECURITY FORCES: LIMITED VISIBILITY OVER…
The International Energy Agency concluded that freshwater use is becoming an increasingly crucial issue for energy production around the world in its 2012 World Energy Outlook.Between…
Erik Marstein, head of the Norwegian Research Center for Solar Cell Technology, head of Research for the solar cell unit at the Institute for Energy Technology (IFE) at Kjeller outside…
Fifty years ago I began my undergraduate studies at the University of Leeds in the UK. It is not something I particularly dwell on, but the stories out of…
Where are all the Gold Bugs?The decline in GDP saw gold and silver spike yesterday with the thought that the fed will still be around a little while…
An audit of U.S. defense spending in Afghanistan finds the Pentagon may have spent a significant amount of money on fuel for the military there that came from Iran. Congress…
United States oil consumption in 2012 will be about 4.7 million barrels a day, or 20%, lower than it would have been, if the pre-2005 trend in oil consumption growth…
An unprecedented deal between Russia’s state-controlled Rosneft and Glencore (GLEN:LN)—the world’s largest oil trader—gives Rosneft much-needed cash and positions Glencore to become the world’s largest trader of Russian oil. This…