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Oct 30, 2009 at 16:40

One of the major irritants for international oil companies is when parochial national policies get in the way of their quest for profits. Nowhere is this more evident than in…

Oct 29, 2009 at 20:28

There are very few guarantees in the world of investment, especially at a time when so many national economies are in a current state of flux and seizure, which in…

Oct 28, 2009 at 16:30

Crude oil is among the most notorious commodity markets but is also among the most treacherous.  Nonetheless, speculators are drawn toward the leverage and volatility provided in this trading arena...and…

Oct 27, 2009 at 18:28

As far back as pre-historical times, mankind has always been fascinated with the energy supplying ability of the sun to provide the warmth and light needed to sustain life on…

Oct 24, 2009 at 20:47

Of the five nations surrounding the Caspian – Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Iran, Russia and Turkmenistan, the hydrocarbon riches of Turkmenistan remain the last great prize, sought and fought over by Russia,…

Oct 22, 2009 at 23:20

Over the past century, modern society has developed a near unquenchable thirst for oil and after 100 years of searching and experimenting there is still no reliable replacement. “Oil is…

Oct 21, 2009 at 16:17

Currently there is a lot of debate going on regarding Peak Oil and precisely what we need to be doing about it, both now and in the near future. The…

Oct 20, 2009 at 16:10

Virtually every topic in energy economics contains some elephantine myths that need to be confronted, from oil and gas to Nuclear and renewables. SOMETHING ABOUT OIL Take for example oil.…

Oct 20, 2009 at 15:12

AN ANALYSIS USING FIBONACCI IMPULSE STRATEGIES.XLESince breaking below our long term "89" line more than a year ago, the XLE made a strong move above the…

Oct 17, 2009 at 17:10

There were a lot of reports this week about the demise of the dollar. Is the end of the greenback truly at hand? Or are reports of the dollar's death…

Oct 17, 2009 at 15:19

Last week the Energy Information Administration released their ‘EIA-914’ report on natural gas production in the U.S. for the month of July. Production decreased 0.7 bcf/day from the previous month—a…

Oct 16, 2009 at 18:15

As the Obama Administration ponders how to produce something resembling victory from the Afghan quagmire, it faces a number of foreign policy choices, few of them palatable. Despite the earnest…

Oct 16, 2009 at 16:36

It’s been staring us in the face for the past four-plus billion years. One of the cleanest, greenest and most renewable energy sources we could ever know: the sun. However,…

Oct 15, 2009 at 14:47

As long as we continue to enjoy the vast benefits brought to our lives by our consistent utilization of oil, we will constantly be at periodic risk of experiencing the…

Oct 13, 2009 at 17:40

Question: Can the debt mountain keep on growing to the sky or will we eventually see a landslide collapse? Answer: The evidence in the USA (continuously rising unemployment…

Oct 09, 2009 at 22:13

U.S. foreign and energy policies are inextricably linked, closer than Siamese twins. Since the 1991 collapse of the USSR, Washington’s foreign policy has been to advance NATO up to the…

Oct 08, 2009 at 03:23

The Press Is Still Missing The Story Of  Fraud and Economic Decline Ahead. We know that Wall Street has not learned much from the crash…

Oct 07, 2009 at 16:13

Just a few decades ago, “biofuels” were all the rage in the media, as many well respected “power pundits’ predicted that they would eventually prove to be a leading “vanguard”…

Oct 05, 2009 at 16:09

When we take a well considered historical perspective of what has occurred over the recent years and in particular, the last two decades regarding the price of crude oil,…

Oct 02, 2009 at 16:02

Whilst Gold is busy grabbing the headlines, it’s bigger, rarer, more versatile and useful brother is quietly doing its job of providing Industry and manufacturing with the base elements they…