I view oil through a 25-year career of daily engagement in the futures markets. It’s not the standard Wall Street view. I can’t describe how all that experience…
It’s time to dig below the surface for good energy investments—way below the surface. The future of energy will be shaped in large part by new technology, the heart of…
The 12-week crude oil rally appears to be running out of steam after reaching $98.24. Despite the close near the high last week, buyers were absent from the get-go this…
In its quest to become a self-sufficient regional energy hub and a hydrocarbon bridge between the Middle East and Europe, Turkey still hasn’t made that one big discovery, but the…
Ask Tanzanians what the gas bonanza has done for them. For starters, anyone who owns property in the port city of Dar es Salaam has seen that property value sky…
Bottom Line: The assassination on 6 February of opposition politician Chokri Belaid, a notable opponent of the Islamist-led government, is the trigger that will push the ongoing political crisis and…
Bottom Line: A leftist group has claimed responsibility for the bombing of the US Embassy in Ankara, but if this is a message about Turkey’s role in the Syrian conflict…
Bottom Line: Our attempts at offering probability scenarios for an end game in Syria are crippled by the intensified meddling of a growing number of private actors who have formed…
The issue of Burmese billionaire Tay Zaw’s financial contributions to Myanmar’s military regime that we alerted you to earlier is now becoming public due in part to the leak of…
Militant groups in the Sahel want kidnapping victims for ransom, or South American cocaine for smuggling, but Gulf of Guinea pirates just want oil. Western oil and gas…
A U.S. lawmaker said he was frustrated that embattled British energy company BP was posting better-than-expected fourth quarter profits while most Americans were paying top dollar for gasoline prices. A…
Work has started on the construction of the world’s largest plasma gasification plant with its development signalling the dawning of a new era in the UK’s Energy from Waste sector.
Before there were refrigerators folks kept drinks cool by putting them into clay jars that had been soaked in water. The evaporation of the water from the clay cooled the…
The quest for cheap energy and cheap labor is a conquering human urge, one that has played out with notable ferocity starting with the Industrial Revolution. The introduction of coal…
The Security – Energy - SPDR ETF (XLE)Energy - SPDR ETF is a Standard & Poor’s Exchange-Traded Fund that offers much profit potential with a Low-Risk quotient. I…
First, the good news.Piracy off Somalia is down. In 2012, there were 297 piracy attacks and 28 hijackings worldwide, according to the International Maritime Bureau’s Piracy Reporting…
Egypt is not only hungry for energy—it’s starving, and this starvation will play a role in the underlying revolutionary instability that has foreign investors asking whether the other boot is…
Oil Money is Bad Money, Except When…Al Gore has just released a new book — The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change — and is on a…
According to a story in Gizmag yesterday, a group of researchers at Newcastle University in the U.K. may have accidentally stumbled on a solution to the problems that…
I guess the SPR Threat was politically motivatedWhen Oil and Gas prices were last at these levels President Obama utilized the threat of releasing the SPRs to put…