U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures are trading lower on Friday after breaking sharply from their intraday highs earlier in the session. Weighing on…
1. When Will Crude Oversupply Finally Come? - The ongoing US-OPEC public spat continues to revolve around the oil market’s immediate prospects, namely its moving…
Geopolitics ExxonMobil and Qatar Petroleum are several weeks away from a resumption of exploratory drilling offshore Cyprus, while French Total SA and Italian Eni…
A month or so ago, on October 15th, I wrote in these pages that I was taking some profit and selling some oil stocks. Crude…
Gaddafi’s son. General Haftar. Libya’s former interior minister Fathi Bashagha. Former Prime Minister Ali Zeidan. Prime Minister Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah. Parliament speaker Aguila Saleh. These are…
The obvious case for allowing the free market to make decisions in industries like energy is that, when changes are forced instead of adopted naturally…
U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures are edging lower on Friday, putting the market in a position to finish the week with a loss.…
1. COP26 Struggle Foreshadows Two-Speed Development of Renewables- The watered-down version of the COP26 communique, “calling upon parties to adopt policies that are accelerating the…
Geopolitics European natural gas prices started dropping this week after Russia started increasing supplies, but the market’s initial optimism over more Russian gas was dulled…
If you follow the energy markets, as I assume most readers here do, you may be aware that COP26, the U.N. climate summit held in…
If Libya manages to hold landmark elections on December 24th peacefully, it will be nothing short of a miracle. Mercenaries are still armed and ready…
U.S. West Texas Intermediate are edging higher on Friday after OPEC and its allies moved forward with its plans for a gradual increase in production.…
1. OPEC+ Sticks to Charted Course, Confident of Market Balance Coming Soon- The OPEC+ oil group agreed to maintain its crude output increase for December…
Geopolitics In a long-running spat with Morocco over the Western Sahara, Algeria has moved to halt all natural gas exports to Spain through Morocco. That…
After around forty years of making a living from financial markets in one way or another, I am not often left scratching my head these…
Wherever Huawei goes in the developing world these days is a pretty good barometer for where the Chinese Communist Party is setting up stakes for…
U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures are trading lower on Friday, putting the market in a position to form a potentially bearish closing price…
1. US LNG Export Slowdown Couldn’t Have Happened at Worst TimeSource: Kpler. - Netting another month-on-month decline, US LNG exports have been falling for four…
Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict From Sudan and Libya to Bosnia, it’s been a week of war cries that threaten high-level instability which would weigh on…
One of the main things that attracted me to the energy markets a decade or so ago was that it is an area of the…