Alex Kimani

Latest articles from Alex

• The Wave Of Shale Well Closures Has Finally Begun

  Published 30 April 2020 | viewed 113,731 times

  U.S. shale oil producers have so far held up admirably, hanging on for dear life amidst the biggest oil demand collapse in history. American producers continued…

• Chinese Investors Lost $1 Billion In Epic Oil Price Crash

  Published 30 April 2020 | viewed 45,543 times

  For many decades, the Chinese financial markets remained a tightly controlled affair that, for the most part, locked out foreign and exotic investments. That started…

• Oil Pirates Have A New Favorite Hotspot

  Published 29 April 2020 | viewed 28,587 times

  Gone are the days when Somalia's Gulf of Aden was considered the most dangerous piracy zone for oil companies and other seafarers. But now, with…

• Low Oil Prices May Kill Off The Next Nuclear Boom Before It Begins

  Published 27 April 2020 | viewed 35,842 times

  After a decade-long bear market, uranium has suddenly turned into a raging bull in an otherwise dismal market for commodities.  Uranium prices have surged 35…

• Low Oil Prices Won’t Hurt Tesla

  Published 26 April 2020 | viewed 10,706 times

  Many times in the past, Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) has been labeled a 'cult stock' due to its vast investor interest despite the company's somewhat questionable or weak…

• $110 Trillion Renewables Stimulus Package Could Create 50 Million Jobs

  Published 24 April 2020 | viewed 165,815 times

  As the world continues to grapple with the worst global pandemic in living memory, economists everywhere are warning that we are witnessing the unraveling of…

• Is This The End Of The World’s Largest Oil Fund?

  Published 21 April 2020 | viewed 38,419 times

  The oil markets have just gone through an epic long squeeze, with oil prices crashing into negative territory for the first time in history.  The May 2020…

• How The COVID-19 Plastic Boom Could Save The Oil Industry

  Published 19 April 2020 | viewed 69,147 times

  What happens when you give industries that are frequently ostracized for their role in environmental degradation an 'open license to pollute?' They take it with open arms.…

• Scientists Unveil Tech To Tame The AI Energy Blackhole

  Published 19 April 2020 | viewed 26,558 times

  Our ever-growing sea of connectivity powered by technologies such as Big Data, AI, 5G, and IoT has created an enormous tsunami of data that is,…

• True Energy Independence Won’t Come From Oil

  Published 16 April 2020 | viewed 19,734 times

  American energy independence was a hot topic towards the tail-end of 2019 before the global coronavirus pandemic, but the oil price war threw a monkey…

• Big Banks Set To Seize Shale Oil Assets

  Published 15 April 2020 | viewed 83,375 times

  Only weeks ago, scores of rating agencies sounded the alarm that the coronavirus credit crunch would set in motion a wave of corporate bankruptcies that would make…

• The Outdated Law Threatening U.S. ‘Energy Independence’

  Published 14 April 2020 | viewed 20,559 times

  After months of high drama and unceasing tedium, the OPEC+ group of countries, led by Saudi Arabia and Russia, finally granted President Trump his wish…

• U.S. Oil Storage To Hit Its Limit By Mid-May

  Published 12 April 2020 | viewed 68,769 times

  By many accounts, EIA crude oil forecasts appear tame compared to what other independent analysts are predicting, and the deal-no-deal that has so far come…

• Oil Price War Claims Another Victim

  Published 12 April 2020 | viewed 305,265 times

  The oil price war has already claimed its first victim. Whiting Petroleum Corp. (NYSE: WLL), once the largest oil and gas producer in North Dakota's…

• The Oil Price Crash Won’t Stop The Tesla Boom

  Published 07 April 2020 | viewed 35,985 times

  The falling price of gas has brought some relief to drivers fed up with seeing numbers whirr on the pump at wallet-draining speeds. According to the AAA,…

• Will This Be The Slowest Year Ever For Oil & Gas Mergers?

  Published 04 April 2020 | viewed 57,664 times

  When the energy sector faces a severe existential threat as it currently is after the epic oil price collapse, the usual playbook is to resort…

• The Ocean Could Be The Ultimate Renewable Energy Source

  Published 02 April 2020 | viewed 46,467 times

  For all their hype as the biggest and final frontier in clean energy production, tidal and wave power have never quite lived up to their…

• Oil Prices Hit 20-Year Lows, But These Supermajors Are Hanging On Tight

  Published 01 April 2020 | viewed 57,082 times

  Oil punters have been watching unfolding developments in the energy space with bated breath after Saudi Arabia made good on its promise to ramp up…

• The First Victims Of The Oil Price War

  Published 31 March 2020 | viewed 76,271 times

  As the oil price war and coronavirus pandemic rage on, it’s becoming increasingly clear that the energy market can remain choppy and irrational longer than…

• Why Civil Rights Activists Are Backing Natural Gas

  Published 31 March 2020 | viewed 22,536 times

  The United States has a long-running love affair with natural gas, with fossil fuels acting as the lynchpin in the country's power generation mix, while…