Andy Tully

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• Plastics Industry Latest Victim Of Low Oil Prices

  Published 03 February 2016 | viewed 14,030 times

  Energy companies aren’t the only victims of the persistent plunge in oil prices. Now the plastics industry is beginning to take a hit. South Korea’s…

• UK Gas Providers Slashing Prices

  Published 03 February 2016 | viewed 4,254 times

  Half of Britain’s “big six” energy suppliers are now offering, or plan to offer, discounts of at least 5 percent to their retail customers amid…

• Shell Needs To Divest Assets In Order To Afford BG Deal

  Published 02 February 2016 | viewed 7,779 times

  Royal Dutch Shell is selling even more assets as it tries to cope with the persistent fall in the price of oil and its controversially…

• Dominion Continues Coal To Gas Switch With $4.4 Billion Deal

  Published 02 February 2016 | viewed 4,495 times

  Dominion Resources Inc., the power utility based in Richmond, Va., is the latest U.S. utility to expand its operations, reaching out West by offering to…

• OPEC’s Serious Decline Forecast For U.S. Shale Is Exaggerated

  Published 01 February 2016 | viewed 13,523 times

  OPEC is betting that its price war to reclaim market share, mostly from drillers in North America, will force reduced investment in the region this…

• Japan Reboots Third Nuclear Reactor, LNG Import Forecasts Lowered

  Published 01 February 2016 | viewed 5,737 times

  Japan has taken another step toward making nuclear power a key part of its energy profile, but some say that step, while small in terms…

• These Oilfield Service Giants Are Feeling The Squeeze

  Published 30 January 2016 | viewed 7,633 times

  The 19-month-old dive in the price of oil has left few options for oilfield services companies, which provide energy companies with the nuts and bolts…

• Solar Industry Gets A Victory In California

  Published 30 January 2016 | viewed 5,553 times

  The solar power industry is welcoming California’s decision to continue its program of allowing homes and businesses with rooftop solar panels to sell excess energy…

• Israel Fends Off Unknown Hackers’ Cyberattack On Power Company

  Published 28 January 2016 | viewed 8,635 times

  Israel is so far managing to counter a potentially crippling cyberattack on its national Electric Authority, but has yet to defeat it completely. Energy Minister…

• Shell-BG Merger Green-lighted By Shareholders

  Published 28 January 2016 | viewed 11,097 times

  Shareholders of Royal Dutch Shell and BG Group have given their final approval to a merger of the companies, despite concern among some Shell shareholders…

• Iran Wasting No Time; Inks Deals With Italy And France

  Published 27 January 2016 | viewed 5,875 times

  Balancing Iran’s increasingly closer ties with Russia and China, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is touring Europe to drum up as much renewed business with the…

• Houston Feels The Oil Price Pinch As Office Space Vacancies Grow

  Published 27 January 2016 | viewed 9,455 times

  The almost pitifully low price of oil isn’t affecting just rig counts in North America. Cities whose economies rely heavily on the energy industry also…

• Sanctions And Low Oil Prices Deepen Russian Recession

  Published 26 January 2016 | viewed 6,887 times

  The Russian economy’s heavy reliance on energy, plus Western sanctions imposed because of Moscow’s role in the Ukraine conflict, have left the country in its…

• Greece Is First EU Country Out Of The Gate To Buy Iranian Oil

  Published 26 January 2016 | viewed 5,888 times

  Greece, once a leading European customer of Iranian oil before the imposition of Western sanctions in 2012, will be the first European country to resume…

• Obama Moves To Limit Methane Emissions

  Published 25 January 2016 | viewed 5,161 times

  In the last year of his presidency, Barack Obama appears determined to leave a legacy of limiting greenhouse gases believed to cause climate change, first…

• China Deal Shows Iran Tilting East, Not West

  Published 25 January 2016 | viewed 5,577 times

  Iran already has signaled that it plans to do more business with Russia now that the crippling Western sanctions have been lifted from its economy.…

• Oil CEO’s – Don’t Expect Oil Prices To Recover Until 2017

  Published 23 January 2016 | viewed 7,899 times

  Since last summer, energy executives have been warning that the price of oil will remain “lower for longer.” That raises two questions, however: How much…

• Republicans Outraged Over Kerry Admission On Iran

  Published 23 January 2016 | viewed 6,048 times

  Republicans in Washington reacted with outrage to Secretary of State John Kerry’s acknowledgment that money now available to Iran with the lifting of sanctions could…

• Gazprom Warns EU Its Policies May Choke Off Gas Supply

  Published 21 January 2016 | viewed 6,780 times

  The chairman of Gazprom says the European Union’s energy policies could dam up the flow of gas from Russia to the West, especially at a…

• Exxon Climate Change Investigation May Become A Federal Case

  Published 21 January 2016 | viewed 6,268 times

  The investigatory microscope has been focused on Exxon Mobil Corp. since last summer, beginning with a group of journalism students working in tandem with the…