Alex Kimani

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• China Is Using The Pandemic As An Excuse To Not Buy U.S. Energy

  Published 05 August 2020 | viewed 10,235 times

  Back in June, we reported that China had begun ramping up imports of U.S. LNG ostensibly in a bid to fulfill the January trade agreement…

• How COVID Could Clean Up Airline Emissions

  Published 05 August 2020 | viewed 6,168 times

  It’s been nearly 12.5 years since Virgin Atlantic flew a Boeing 747 between London and Amsterdam partly powered by a biofuel made from Brazilian babassu…

• Is Hydrogen The Future For U.S. Power Companies?

  Published 03 August 2020 | viewed 13,650 times

  Last month, the European Union set out a comprehensive hydrogen strategy as part of its goal to achieve carbon neutrality for all its industries by…

• Apache Compensates For Poor Earnings With A Major Oil Discovery

  Published 01 August 2020 | viewed 33,053 times

  Last year, shale driller Apache Corp. (NYSE: APA) made waves after it sacked one of the most iconic CEOs in the shale patch, Steven Keenan.…

• The World’s Largest Nuclear Fusion Reactor Is Finally Being Built

  Published 30 July 2020 | viewed 123,656 times

  What do The Dark Knight Rises, Back to the Future, Oblivion, and Interstellar have in common? They are sci-fi megahits that showcase a technology that…

• MLPs Are No Longer An Oil & Gas Safe Haven

  Published 30 July 2020 | viewed 15,299 times

  A toxic chain of events surrounding a new face in Washington, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the subsequent demand construction and price crash that roiled the…

• How India’s Oil Major Became Bigger Than Exxon

  Published 28 July 2020 | viewed 25,969 times

  After decades of dominance, America’s largest energy company Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM), has finally ceded its position as the world’s second most valuable energy…

• How One Oil Major Excelled As Prices Crashed

  Published 27 July 2020 | viewed 21,636 times

  When oil prices plunged to historic lows in April, the majority of oil producers, including OPEC+ nations, responded by drastically cutting production to get rid…

• Has Wall Street Underestimated Big Oil’s Appetite For Acquisitions?

  Published 26 July 2020 | viewed 22,410 times

  The current year has been shaping up as the worst in decades for oil and gas mergers as the deep uncertainty surrounding the sector killed…

• Will China Use Its Nuclear Option As Tensions With The U.S. Escalate?

  Published 23 July 2020 | viewed 14,386 times

  In the latest round of feuding between the world’s leading economies, China has vowed to retaliate after the United States ordered its consulate in Houston…

• Mexico's Pemex Scrambles To Save Itself From Oil Price Crash

  Published 20 July 2020 | viewed 19,134 times

  The majority of the world’s oil producers have been racing to heavily cut back spending and production in response to the oil market crisis, while…

• China’s Hunger For Crude Is Waning

  Published 19 July 2020 | viewed 55,459 times

  As the coronavirus epidemic brought the world’s second-largest economy to a near-halt during the early part of the year, Chinese crude importers engaged in a…

• Second Wave Of COVID-19 Won’t Crush Oil Prices

  Published 16 July 2020 | viewed 33,798 times

  OPEC+ agreed on Wednesday to ease its self-imposed production cuts starting next month as the global economy slowly awakens from its deep Covid-19 slumber. The…

• Five Value Stocks In Natural Gas

  Published 16 July 2020 | viewed 27,828 times

  Over the past half decade, the natural gas sector has earned itself the dubious distinction as the place where money goes to die. Few sectors…

• The Robinhood Phenomenon Is Fueling An Electric Vehicle Boom

  Published 16 July 2020 | viewed 20,421 times

  In the past, Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk never hesitated to call it as it was whenever TSLA stock started overheating. But maybe he’s…

• Why The Hydrogen Boom Is Good News For Natural Gas

  Published 13 July 2020 | viewed 39,953 times

  After decades of stagnation and multiple false dawns, the hydrogen economy is finally taking off, with some experts predicting that hydrogen could become a globally-traded energy…

• Oil Price Crash Sparks A Wave Of Banking Mergers In The Middle East

  Published 12 July 2020 | viewed 27,089 times

  The historic oil price crash and Covid-19 pandemic have left major producers of the commodity in a deep economic crisis. Dramatic production cuts by OPEC+…

• Crude Oil Shortages Beginning To Bite In Key Markets

  Published 09 July 2020 | viewed 81,485 times

  Last month, OPEC and its non-OPEC allies, known as OPEC+, agreed to extend their deep production cuts through July in an effort to rebalance oversupplied markets in the…

• 10 Energy Stocks Defying The COVID-19 Slump

  Published 08 July 2020 | viewed 18,173 times

  The coronavirus's global spread has roiled energy markets, with the sector facing its worst existential crisis in history. Record low oil and gas demand, plunging…

• Exxon vs Chevron: Which Is The Smartest Buy?

  Published 08 July 2020 | viewed 28,192 times

  The ongoing shale bust is proving to be nothing short of catastrophic, leaving investors wondering whether even the titans will come out of it in…