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Louisiana Light • 4 days | 87.09 | +0.49 | +0.57% | ||
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Bonny Light • 1 day | 88.20 | -0.49 | -0.55% | ||
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Opec Basket • 4 days | 87.52 | +0.17 | +0.19% | ||
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Mars US • 172 days | 77.26 | -1.51 | -1.92% | ||
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Gasoline • 11 mins | 2.680 | -0.005 | -0.20% |
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Bonny Light • 1 day | 88.20 | -0.49 | -0.55% | ||
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Girassol • 1 day | 88.64 | -0.56 | -0.63% | ||
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Opec Basket • 4 days | 87.52 | +0.17 | +0.19% |
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Peace Sour • 4 hours | 75.10 | -0.32 | -0.42% | ||
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Light Sour Blend • 4 hours | 78.15 | -0.32 | -0.41% | ||
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Syncrude Sweet Premium • 4 hours | 85.10 | -0.32 | -0.37% | ||
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Central Alberta • 4 hours | 75.50 | -0.32 | -0.42% |
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Eagle Ford • 4 days | 79.62 | +0.41 | +0.52% | ||
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Oklahoma Sweet • 4 days | 79.75 | +0.50 | +0.63% | ||
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Kansas Common • 6 days | 73.00 | -2.50 | -3.31% | ||
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Buena Vista • 5 days | 86.90 | +0.04 | +0.05% |
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Natural Gas Analysis for the Week of March 12, 2012
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The Booms and Busts of the Electric Power Industry
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Iraq Oil Outlook Overly Ambitious
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Chinese Govt. to Clean the Capital's Air - Everyone Else - Good Luck
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US East Coast Faces Severe Oil Shortages and High Prices as Refineries Close
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Bolivia's Natural Gas Reserves Now on Political Firing Line
First, the good news. Bolivia has South America's second largest proven natural gas reserve, totaling approximately 24 trillion cubic feet (tcf), according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Of this, 85…
The Chevy Volt was Doomed to Fail from the Start
The news out of Detroit had all the feel of a wake. GM announced that it was suspending production of the Chevy Volt idling its Hamtramck factory…
Pilot Lights, What a Waste of Energy!
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Mozambique Goes Green, Blindsides International Mining Interests
It’s hard not to be downcast when reading much of the news from Africa, ravaged as it is by wars, hunger, poverty, famine and rapacious Western companies intent on exploiting…
Zimbabwe's Ongoing Energy Nightmare
In the 32 years of his benighted rule, Zimbabwe’s President Robert Gabriel Mugabe has done more damage to the country than its white-led minority government ever did. With the exception…
Nigerian Energy Sector Next Big Market Concern
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Why Europe is Experiencing Higher Oil Prices than the US
The world is presently sharing a limited supply of oil. When oil prices rise, oil production doesn’t rise very much, if at all.
