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• Europe Could Drop Natural Gas As A Bridge Fuel

  Published 28 October 2022 | viewed 22,937 times

  1. There’s No Good Way to Solve US Fuel Shortage- When Valero (NYSE:VLO) kicked off US refiners’ Q3 earnings call with a $2.82 billion net…

• A Worrying Sign For Oil Companies In Iraqi Kurdistan

  Published 28 October 2022 | viewed 4,734 times

  Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict In the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (Iraqi Kurdistan), those remaining oil companies who have unilateral E&P deals with the Kurdistan Regional…

• Record U.S. Crude Exports Push Oil Prices Higher

  Published 28 October 2022 | viewed 11,367 times

  December WTI crude oil futures finished higher on Thursday, putting the market in a position to close higher for the week. The bullish price action…

• 3 Factors That Could Drive Oil Prices Higher

  Published 21 October 2022 | viewed 16,785 times

  U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures are trading nearly flat after posting a volatile two-sided trade throughout the week. Underpinning prices were concerns over…

• Can The U.S. Afford A Conflict With Saudi Arabia?

  Published 21 October 2022 | viewed 14,308 times

  1. Gasoline Prices Drop Back After Brief Surge- After several weeks of increasing gasoline prices, the trend is declining again with the national average dropping…

• Unrest Within Russia Is Ramping Up

  Published 21 October 2022 | viewed 71,911 times

  Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict Some 700,000 men have fled Russia since the announcement of a partial mobilization on Sept 21st. Demonstrations have been taking place…

• A Forgotten Stock That Could Pop Again

  Published 21 October 2022 | viewed 4,037 times

  Long-time readers with very long memories may remember that several years ago, I wrote here about stock in a company called Amyris (AMRS). I was…

• Uncertainty Ahead For Ukraine And Iraq

  Published 21 October 2022 | viewed 2,098 times

  What Ukraine can expect this winter By Tuesday, the Russian military was claiming to have recaptured some territory in eastern Kharkiv after a Ukrainian counteroffensive…

• How Real Is The Threat To Europe's Energy Infrastructure?

  Published 14 October 2022 | viewed 2,419 times

  The explosions that caused leaks in the Nord Stream pipelines have been deemed sabotage, and the message to Europe is this: Your infrastructure can be…

• Oil Prices Are Set For A Big Move

  Published 14 October 2022 | viewed 108,047 times

  Energy Markets Escalating tensions between the United States and OPEC+, via Saudi Arabia, have triggered some short-term market swings for oil. But a more powerful…

• Energy Bills Continue To Climb For U.S. Households

  Published 14 October 2022 | viewed 3,084 times

  1. Supply Disruptions Ratchet Up Pressure on Coal- There has been a noticeable uptick in union action this year, and a wage strike at South…

• A Sustained Oil Rally Seems Unlikely Amid Rampant Inflation

  Published 14 October 2022 | viewed 4,044 times

  U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures are in a position to finish the week lower after a promising finish the prior week. The selling…

• How To Buy EV Charging Stocks

  Published 14 October 2022 | viewed 2,164 times

  Let’s face it, you don’t have to be a genius to know that there is going to be some incredible growth in the business of…

• Does The OPEC+ Oil Price Rally Have Legs?

  Published 07 October 2022 | viewed 9,511 times

  U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures are up sharply late Thursday and for the week after OPEC and its allies (OPEC+) agreed to tighten…

• High Power Prices Are Undermining Europe's Renewable Energy Plans

  Published 07 October 2022 | viewed 3,621 times

  1. Drastic OPEC+ Cuts Signal Group Cohesion- Having met in person for the first time in more than two years, OPEC+ agreed to cut oil…

• Iraq's Oil Industry Threatened By Political Unrest

  Published 07 October 2022 | viewed 2,283 times

  Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict Clashes erupted on Tuesday in Iraq’s oil-rich Basra region following rocket attacks on the presidential palace, intensifying concerns that unrest in…

• One Way To Play A Pullback In Oil Prices

  Published 07 October 2022 | viewed 14,162 times

  A couple of weeks ago, when the rumors started about the production cuts that OPEC+ confirmed yesterday, I wrote that, from a long-term perspective, the…

• Biden's Battle To Bring Oil Prices Down

  Published 07 October 2022 | viewed 5,688 times

  This week’s noteworthy elements include more than just the slow sapping of the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserves, which have fallen to 416 million barrels -…

• Nigeria Has Failed To Capitalize On High Oil Prices

  Published 30 September 2022 | viewed 2,619 times

  1. 2022 Hurricane Season Not As Bad for Oil- As S&P Global Platts notes, the US hurricane season is picking up steam after a slow…

• Sabotage, Drones, And Sham Referendums Send Geopolitical Risk Soaring

  Published 30 September 2022 | viewed 2,010 times

  Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict Leaks discovered Monday in the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, which carry natural gas to Germany, have been determined by…