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Louisiana Light • 2 days | 81.18 | +0.12 | +0.15% | ||
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Bonny Light • 29 days | 86.00 | -0.62 | -0.72% | ||
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Opec Basket • 2 days | 81.37 | -0.08 | -0.10% | ||
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Mars US • 266 days | 75.97 | -1.40 | -1.81% | ||
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Gasoline • 4 hours | 2.461 | -0.007 | -0.29% |
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Bonny Light • 29 days | 86.00 | -0.62 | -0.72% | ||
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Girassol • 29 days | 87.27 | -0.38 | -0.43% | ||
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Opec Basket • 2 days | 81.37 | -0.08 | -0.10% |
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Peace Sour • 11 hours | 72.28 | +0.69 | +0.96% | ||
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Light Sour Blend • 11 hours | 72.28 | +0.69 | +0.96% | ||
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Syncrude Sweet Premium • 11 hours | 79.18 | +0.89 | +1.14% | ||
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Central Alberta • 11 hours | 72.28 | +0.69 | +0.96% |
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Eagle Ford • 3 days | 74.07 | +0.63 | +0.86% | ||
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Oklahoma Sweet • 2 days | 75.00 | +2.00 | +2.74% | ||
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Kansas Common • 3 days | 67.75 | +0.50 | +0.74% | ||
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Buena Vista • 4 days | 83.27 | -2.82 | -3.28% |
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Crude Oil Analysis for the Week of August 15, 2011
Following a volatile trading week which saw the October Crude Oil futures trade in 13.18% range, the market settled at $85.69, down $1.61 or 1.84%. The week started out with…
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Russian Pipeline Transiting North Korea Somewhat Unlikely
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Large Scale Energy Storage and the Renewable Energy Problem
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Oil Prices and the Fall of the Soviet Union
Back in the 1960s and 1970s, the country that was the “big growth story” was the Soviet Union. Its oil consumption grew by leaps and bounds. Its space program grew;…
Is Shale Oil the Answer to U.S. Energy Security
A series of articles by Reuters columnists and Chesapeake Energy’s August 2011 Investor Presentation (once the “Ra-Ra” is filtered out) serve to underline the rapid and largely unseen revolution…
End of the Energy Subsidy Gravy Train
The drama that raised the national debt ceiling without increasing taxes is sending warning shots across the bow for many industries. The message for energy subsidies, including the tax credits…
The Future of Transportation? US Defence Giants to Build Low Carbon Aircraft
Conventional airships rely almost entirely on helium’s ‘lighter-than-air’ buoyancy, making them fairly unstable, weather-sensitive and slow-moving. Hybrids mix this with ‘heavier-than-air’ aircraft technology – including power-generated aerodynamic lift and thrust…
Bernanke Says Buy Stocks, Or Else!
I believe that the risk markets are discounting a recession that isn’t going to happen. Not yet, anyway. So I am going to start adding some small, limited risk call…
China and Rare Earths - Monopoly for Now
First, the bad news - China's constrained rare earth supplies will be an "irreversible trend" and prices will remain at high levels, according to Zhang Zhong, general manager of Inner…
Why Falling Oil Prices are NOT a Reason to Celebrate
Normally, consumers consider falling oil and gasoline prices to be good news. They have to pay less to fill up their tanks. And if the reason for that is that…
A Look at the DOD's Operation Energy Strategy
US soldiers run on water, batteries and fuel. The latter two are becoming quite a challenge for the armed forces as they require a reliable and assured supply of operational…
Peak Oil: Grim Reality or Conspiracy Myth?
“The era of cheap oil is over and will never come back… Conventional oil peaked in 2006,” - Fatih Birol, International Energy Agency Chief Economist, 25 May 2011 There…
Canada's Increasing Demand for U.S. Natural Gas
Canada needs US natural gas to help produce its bitumen oil sands. As oil sands production ratchets up from 1.5 million barrels per day to 5 mbpd by 2020, Canada's…
Swedish Man Arrested for Building a Nuclear Reactor in His Kitchen
Apparently a Swedish man has been reprimanded for attempting to build a homemade nuclear reactor. 31-year-old Richard Handl foiled his own plans to construct a homemade nuclear reactor when he…
Economics Will Never Be Value-Free
Lately, everyone seems to be acting like an economist. Whether they are screaming that Keynesians are destroying the economy, that the debt will be the downfall of the US and…
