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• What Does Brexit Mean For UK Oil & Gas?

  Published 16 October 2019 | viewed 2,217 times

  The London stock market, the British pound and the European populace, in general, were buoyed by rumors emerging about London and Brussels closing in on…

• Don’t Believe The Oil Bulls

  Published 16 October 2019 | viewed 4,580 times

  Oil prices were flat over the last week with Brent trading near $59 while WTI was near $53. On the bearish side traders continue to…

• A Complete U.S. Foreign Policy Failure

  Published 16 October 2019 | viewed 2,383 times

  Americans are retreating under fire from a NATO ally (with American nuclear bombs) and Washington’s latest Middle East policy is quite simply to ignore it…

• U.S. Sanctions Have Oil Markets On Edge

  Published 16 October 2019 | viewed 2,098 times

  This week’s market sentiment was in many ways influenced by the IMF’s cutting global growth rates to their lowest since 2009 (at 3 percent), dropping…

• Oil Markets On Edge As Tensions Mount In The Middle East

  Published 11 October 2019 | viewed 7,420 times

  Oil prices got a slight 2% boost Friday when Iranians claimed that someone aimed suspected missiles at one of its oil tankers as it traversed…

• Economics Beats Politics: A Major Opportunity In Solar

  Published 11 October 2019 | viewed 5,496 times

  Given the current Presidential administration’s bias towards fossil fuels, solar power may seem like a strange place for investors to look for opportunities, but stocks…

• China’s Worrying Oil Vulnerability

  Published 11 October 2019 | viewed 7,763 times

  Friday October 11, 2019 1. China’s Middle East vulnerability- China is the largest oil importer in the world and its vulnerability lies in its dependence…

• Mini Trade Deal Could Be Huge Catalyst For Oil

  Published 11 October 2019 | viewed 12,493 times

  U.S. West Texas Intermediate futures are in a position to close higher for the week although trading inside last week’s range still suggests investor uncertainty…

• A Worrying Sign For Oil Markets

  Published 11 October 2019 | viewed 11,994 times

  Market Movers - OPEC has once again revised downward its estimate for global oil demand growth for 2019. In its fourth downward revision in five…

• Forget The Middle East – This Is The Real Threat To Oil

  Published 09 October 2019 | viewed 8,568 times

  Oil prices continued to fall this week as the US and China stoked concerns that the two sides will fail to cooperate on a trade…

• A Geopolitical Powder Keg In The Middle East

  Published 09 October 2019 | viewed 4,350 times

  The US-Iran Conflict is Playing Out in Iraq As we noted at the beginning of the intensification of the US-Iran conflict, the Middle East will…

• Russia’s Oil Giants Are Addicted To Tax Breaks

  Published 09 October 2019 | viewed 3,620 times

  For much of the 2010s, Rosneft was the leading force on the Russian domestic crude market. It is one thing to produce 42-43 percent of…

• Syria Fears Send Oil Prices Higher

  Published 09 October 2019 | viewed 6,016 times

  Turkey’s military invasion into northeastern Syria has moved crude prices higher after this week’s trading failed to move WTI below the $52 per barrel mark.…

• The “Big LNG Short”

  Published 04 October 2019 | viewed 12,807 times

  Friday October 4, 2019 In the latest edition of the Numbers Report, we’ll take a look at some of the most interesting figures put out…

• Painfully Slow Growth Expected For Canada's Oil Sector

  Published 04 October 2019 | viewed 7,593 times

  Market Movers • Russian oil production dipped in September to 11.24 million bpd, down from 11.29 million bpd--a figure that is still above its agreed…

• Opportunities In A Struggling Energy Sector

  Published 04 October 2019 | viewed 6,426 times

  Watch These Two Oil Stocks With Big Things Coming, Good and BadTwo of the most promising oil stocks out there right now are Apache Corporation…

• Oil Posts Its Worst Quarter Of The Year

  Published 02 October 2019 | viewed 7,778 times

  It seems this was all there could be in a groundbreaking attack on the planet’s most crucial oil infrastructure – two weeks of turmoil and…

• Canada’s Output Cuts Are A Positive Thing

  Published 02 October 2019 | viewed 4,345 times

  First, they said the production curtailments will remain in place until some 35 million barrels of excessive inventories are cleared. Then they said producers only…

• Oil Bears Are Taking Over Control

  Published 02 October 2019 | viewed 5,835 times

  Brent crude fell back below $59 this week as the world moved on from Saudi production outages and back into its increasingly familiar negative macro…

• The War That Won’t Happen & The War That Already Is

  Published 02 October 2019 | viewed 5,756 times

  Even with dissident Iranian sources providing a form of confirmation that the Iranian leadership ordered the September 14th attack on Saudi oil facilities, there will…