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• The One Region Oil Markets Can’t Ignore In 2020

  Published 29 December 2019 | viewed 19,974 times

  The year that is drawing to its close has been turbulent for the Middle East. While oil prices stubbornly refused to respond to efforts to…

• Oil Rises On Large Crude Draw

  Published 27 December 2019 | viewed 34,739 times

  Crude oil prices rose higher after the Energy Information Administration reported an inventory draw of 5.5 million barrels for the week to December 20 in…

• Russia Sees Oil Supply Squeeze In 2020

  Published 27 December 2019 | viewed 22,361 times

  A decline in crude oil supply after 2020 could lead to higher prices, the Russian Energy Ministry said in a draft energy strategy document. The…

• Tesla Scores Landmark Deal For Chinese Factory

  Published 27 December 2019 | viewed 17,002 times

  Tesla has secured a loan of $1.29 billion from a group of four Chinese lenders that it will use for its car factory in Shanghai,…

• The Real Reason Oil Prices Remained Low In 2019

  Published 25 December 2019 | viewed 80,801 times

  The year that is drawing to a close has not been good for oil. Despite production caps across OPEC and beyond, and despite the extra-large…

• Brazil Breaks Key Oil Production Milestone

  Published 24 December 2019 | viewed 20,947 times

  Brazil’s crude oil production in November topped 3 million barrels per day for the first time ever, the National Petroleum Agency reported, adding that total…

• What Will The Average Oil Price Be In 2020?

  Published 24 December 2019 | viewed 79,354 times

  West Texas Intermediate will trade at an average $58.50 per barrel next year, a poll among analysts conducted by Bloomberg has shown. That’s lower than…

• The Complete Guide To Cementing

  Published 23 December 2019 | viewed 21,683 times

  What is cement? Cement is a mixture of several different types of rocks, crushed and heated to very high temperatures, and then ground to a…

• Two Majors Join Forces In The Next Great Oil Frontier

  Published 23 December 2019 | viewed 19,897 times

  Apache Corp. and French Total have struck a deal to jointly explore for oil offshore Suriname. Each will have 50 percent in the venture, with…

• Oil Markets Brace For Another 500,000 Bpd Oil Field To Come Online

  Published 23 December 2019 | viewed 56,490 times

  Kuwait and Saudi Arabia could be days from agreeing the restart of oil production from the two fields they share in the so-called neutral zone.…

• The Human Cost of the EV Revolution

  Published 21 December 2019 | viewed 32,908 times

  There’s a chance that the iPhone you’re about to get for Christmas contains cobalt mined by a six-year-old. There’s also a chance that that six-year-old…

• Study: Obesity Worsens Carbon Emissions

  Published 20 December 2019 | viewed 12,641 times

  The growing human population and an increasing average body size is interfering with attempts to arrest and reduce carbon emissions The growing human population and…

• Shell Braces For A $2.3 Billion Impairment Charge In Q4

  Published 20 December 2019 | viewed 14,805 times

  Shell expects to book an after-tax impairment charge of between $1.7 and $2.3 billion for the fourth quarter of 2019 along with well write-offs of…

• The World’s Most Promising Renewables Market Has Taken A Turn For The Worst

  Published 20 December 2019 | viewed 39,659 times

  Growth in India’s renewable energy output slumped to 5.7 percent over the seven months to October 2019, from 28.5 percent a year earlier, the country’s…

• Did Scientists Just Crack The Solar Code?

  Published 19 December 2019 | viewed 56,987 times

  Scientists the world over have been trying to take a space-grade, super-efficient process for creating spray-on solar cells and make it economically feasible--on Earth.  Everyone…

• Why “Freedom Gas” Was Voted The Worst Phrase Of The Year

  Published 19 December 2019 | viewed 8,817 times

  The “freedom gas” phrase coined by a U.S. Under Secretary of Energy earlier this year, has won the award for worst phrase from the Australian…

• Chevron Strike Could Slash Nigeria Oil Production By 350,000 Bpd

  Published 19 December 2019 | viewed 19,052 times

  A strike of workers at the Nigerian unit of Chevron could threaten 350,000 bpd in oil production: Chevron’s share in the country’s total output. Nigerian…

• China Removes U.S. Oil Products From Tariff List

  Published 19 December 2019 | viewed 23,950 times

  A few days after the United States and China announced a phase-one trade deal, Beijing announced it had removed six chemicals and oil derivatives from…

• Why Oil Traders Are More Bullish On 2020

  Published 18 December 2019 | viewed 36,008 times

  Optimism among oil traders is rising despite mixed signals from the world’s top oil consumers, largely thanks to signs that pressure is easing between Washington…

• How Clean Is Natural Gas?

  Published 18 December 2019 | viewed 19,676 times

  When former Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said in 2013 that the natural gas boom was helping America fight climate change, not everyone was convinced, with…