Celtic Exploration (TSE:CLT) Wednesday received a friendly takeover offer valued at $3.1 billion from U.S. energy giant ExxonMobil (NYSE:XON), which will expand its natural gas holdings in western Canada.
While the world seems to have overlooked the consequences of the 11 March 2011 debacle at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi six reactor nuclear power plant (NPP) complex, the fact remains that…
With an estimated 45 billion barrels of oil and perhaps as much as 6 trillion of cubic meters of gas, Iraqi Kurdistan is using smaller companies to develop its resources...…
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) last week reported on a potential crisis for heating oil customers in the Northeast part of the United States. In This Week in Petroleum…
Producing biofuels from algae is a concept dating back to the oil shocks of the 1970s. At the time, the US Government created an algae research program which analyzed the…
S&P 1,440.That’s getting to be a serious line – especially on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Last Tuesday it was a floor, as the IMF made calls for a Global…
A report from German news magazine Der Spiegel states that Iran's latest effort to disrupt key shipping lanes through the Strait of Hormuz may be to cause a massive…
That Azeri President Ilham Aliyev is so ferociously lashing out at British Petroleum (BP) for declining output in Azerbaijan’s largest oilfield has very little to do with BP and everything…
With gasoline scaling $4 a gallon recently, plans announced last week by international oil giant BP to export U.S.-produced crude oil ought to have Americans howling. For such a plan…
The boycott of Iran has been more successful than I had anticipated, with Iranian oil production and exports down significantly from a year ago.And even stronger additional…
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has set forth some pretty aggressive plans to transition out of its dependence on foreign fossil fuels into a cleaner, more efficiently powered future.…
It was just 8 years ago that Canada's Bankers Petroleum (BNK-TSX) began developing one of Europe's biggest oil fields – in Albania. The main reason for that –…
Peaks and Troughs ProgressionLight sweet crude oil formed a lower minor low and may form a lower minor high. The intermediate trend is towards lower prices. The crude oil…
A 10x (10 times) oil price increase and 4 mb/d (million barrel per day) demand spike followed the 1973 Oil Embargo. Similar price and demand spikes seem likely to follow…
One way to create a monthly cash flow is to purchase oil and gas securities and then sell stock options against these equities. These securities can be in the form…
During last week, oil prices resumed their upward trend as the price of WTI oil and Brent oil increased. OPEC's monthly report showed there was a modest decline in OPEC's…
Options. The word scares people, especially when put next to the words, retirement, savings, or life’s earnings. When I talk about options trading with people who dabble in online…
Spot prices for uranium hit a two-year low last week at $45.75 amid a pending decision over Japan’s nuclear future, excess uranium inventories and slowing growth in China.Japan…
Oil supply growth in the United States is expected to be the highest for non-OPEC countries this year, the Vienna-based cartel said. With less than a month before U.S. voters…
Turkey’s economy is one of the most booming of the Middle East, with a growth rate, despite the ongoing economic recession over the past decade, of an average 5.5…