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• LNG Canada Delays Gas Export Terminal Launch Again

  Published 12 July 2016 | viewed 4,622 times

  LNG Canada, a Shell-led consortium formed to construct a liquefied natural gas export terminal on the Canadian coast, has for the second time delayed its…

• ISIS Blows Up Five Oil Wells in Iraq

  Published 12 July 2016 | viewed 26,921 times

  Five oil wells set on fire is the latest disaster caused by ISIS militants. The de facto rulers of Mosul set the wells on fire…

• Angola Slashes 2016 GDP Growth Forecast

  Published 12 July 2016 | viewed 11,357 times

  Angola’s government has cut its economic growth projections for 2016 by almost half, to 1.3 percent from 3.3 percent, Reuters reported, citing the country’s finance…

• The Hague Tribunal Ruling On South China Sea Raises Tensions

  Published 12 July 2016 | viewed 15,875 times

  An international tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, has ruled against China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea, spurring concern about Asia’s biggest economy’s next…

• Indian Refineries Panting under Weight of Demand

  Published 11 July 2016 | viewed 6,371 times

  India will be forced to start importing oil products if it doesn’t find a solution to a looming refining capacity shortage, the director for refineries…

• Iran Finds New Revenue Source, Leases Out Oil Tankers

  Published 11 July 2016 | viewed 5,576 times

  Whatever some say about the global oil glut easing, there’s still ample demand for floating storage, and Iran is in on the deal. A source…

• Musk Ready to Release Part 2 of Tesla’s Top Secret Master Plan

  Published 11 July 2016 | viewed 8,666 times

  Elon Musk tweeted yesterday that he will be releasing the second part of his Top Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan soon, possibly by the end…

• Could Helium Help Canada Recover From The Oil Bust?

  Published 10 July 2016 | viewed 11,364 times

  Helium has recently got on the public radar, after a potentially huge discovery of untapped deposits in Tanzania. Now the spotlight is moving to Canada,…

• Oil Crisis Pushes Houston Office Vacancy Rates to 20-Year High

  Published 08 July 2016 | viewed 11,350 times

  The fallout of the oil price crisis has proved to have wide-reaching implications beyond the energy industry. Houston real estate is one of these scathed…

• Cheap Gas’ Latest Victim is Fuel Economy

  Published 08 July 2016 | viewed 6,160 times

  Falling prices at the pump have given motorists reason to rejoice continuously over the last year and a half, but they’re not good news for…

• Morgan Stanley Warns That Rising Rig Count Could Undo The Rally

  Published 07 July 2016 | viewed 26,734 times

  In an industry where anything could happen, surprises—often unwelcomed—are hard to come by. Oil is exactly such an industry at the moment. No one is…

• New Challengers for Lithium-Ion Batteries About To Enter The Market

  Published 07 July 2016 | viewed 7,758 times

  Lithium-ion batteries have brought about a real lithium craze and now a new generation of rivals are emerging – some of them also lithium-based –…

• U.S. Crude Inventories Down 2.2 Million Barrels – EIA

  Published 07 July 2016 | viewed 8,781 times

  The Energy Information Agency repored that U.S. commercial crude oil inventories declined by 2.2 million barrels in the week to July 1, standing at 524.4…

• Clinton Email Scandal: Has Putin Played All His Cards?

  Published 07 July 2016 | viewed 14,982 times

  “All animals are equal but some are more equal than others.” This brutal quote from George Orwell’s Animal Farm comes to mind instinctively in light…

• Chilcot Report: UK Oil Interests Were Lead Motive For Iraq War

  Published 07 July 2016 | viewed 30,138 times

  The long-awaited report of John Chilcot, a senior UK civil servant, on the Iraqi War and the events that led to it has revealed that…

• Libyan Oil Unity May Not Happen After All

  Published 07 July 2016 | viewed 7,384 times

  Last week the two administrations of Libya’s National Oil Company made a breakthrough, reaching an agreement to unify their oil operations for the greater good,…

• Tullow Oil Issues $300M in Fresh Debt, Stock Dives

  Published 06 July 2016 | viewed 4,724 times

  UK-based exploration company Tullow Oil announced today that it has issued a convertible bond to the tune of US$300 million maturing in 2012. The announcement…

• India Demonstrates Insatiable Thirst for LNG

  Published 06 July 2016 | viewed 5,275 times

  After it was touted as the biggest driver of global oil demand growth, India, Asia’s second-largest economy, is now emerging as a solid LNG consumer…

• Lebanon Gearing Up For First Offshore Oil Tender

  Published 06 July 2016 | viewed 5,872 times

  Lebanon is preparing to join the ranks of oil and gas producers in the Mediterranean after lagging behind neighbors such as Israel and Egypt for…

• Move Over Canada, U.S. Shale Gas is Here to Stay

  Published 05 July 2016 | viewed 9,601 times

  A Canadian Energy Research Institute survey has found that the country’s natural gas exports will continue to slide over the coming years, with their market…