James Stafford

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• North Dakota No Longer Attractive For Drillers Or Refiners

  Published 03 November 2015 | viewed 26,101 times

  The performance of Blood & Oil, a soap opera based on the North Dakota oil boom, is not going well. The show saw its episodes…

• Forget Vegas, Nevada Is Now About Reno And Lithium

  Published 27 October 2015 | viewed 25,643 times

  Nevada is booming as new lithium companies rush in to stake out targets and massive business development gets underway, from Tesla to Amazon and Apple.…

• U.S. Shale Drillers Running Out Of Options, Fast

  Published 22 October 2015 | viewed 32,535 times

  Much has been made about the impressive gains in efficiency and productivity in the shale patch, as new drilling techniques squeeze ever more oil and…

• The End Of The Oil Major?

  Published 14 October 2015 | viewed 23,231 times

  A new report finds that the largest oil companies are set to cut spending on exploration by at least half, potentially leading to very few…

• LNG Bust Could Last For Years

  Published 07 October 2015 | viewed 22,608 times

  Commodity prices have crashed over the past year, and the market for LNG is no different. Over the past five years or so, there has…

• Hurricane Joaquin’s Threats To Energy Infrastructure, In Maps

  Published 02 October 2015 | viewed 7,382 times

  Hurricane Joaquin is moving up the Atlantic Ocean, having strengthened into a Category 4 storm, but as of Friday morning, it appears the storm won’t…

• The World’s First Clean Oil Sands Project: An Interview With Dr. Gerald Bailey

  Published 31 August 2015 | viewed 26,050 times

  After decades of exhaustive attempts to overcome the dirty reputation of oil sands, we finally have an environmentally-friendly and low cost method to tap into…

• Is The Fed Oil’s Only Hope Right Now?

  Published 25 August 2015 | viewed 13,366 times

  In the short-term, Janet Yellen could be the only hope that oil bulls have left. Oil prices have continued to plummet, except on August 24,…

• Bankruptcies Starting To Pile Up In Coal Industry

  Published 21 July 2015 | viewed 23,317 times

  The coal industry is in uncharted territory. After decades of strong financial numbers and dominance in the electric power sector, coal producers are starting to…

• Carbon Emission Regulations Could Jeopardize Multi Billion LNG Projects

  Published 08 July 2015 | viewed 12,648 times

  Natural gas is increasingly being viewed as one of the most important sources of fuel in the coming decades. That is why Royal Dutch Shell,…

• Alberta’s Government Kicking Oil Industry While It’s Down

  Published 01 July 2015 | viewed 12,233 times

  The new government in Alberta is much less friendly to the fossil fuel industry than the conservatives it recently swept out of office after forty…

• Could Natural Gas Dominate Global Transportation Soon?

  Published 04 June 2015 | viewed 18,708 times

  What are the prospects of natural gas offering a viable alternative to oil as a transportation fuel? Sure, natural gas already exists in the transportation…

• Goldman Sachs Predicting $45 Oil By October

  Published 19 May 2015 | viewed 33,814 times

  Could oil prices be in for yet another decline? Oil prices have rebounded with surprising speed in recent weeks, with WTI prices bouncing by more…

• Saudi Arabia Continues To Turn Screws On U.S. Shale

  Published 12 May 2015 | viewed 25,325 times

  Saudi Arabia continues to ratchet up production, taking market share away from U.S. shale producers. According to OPEC’s latest monthly oil report, Saudi Arabia boosted…

• Shell’s Arctic Ambitions Held Up In Seattle

  Published 05 May 2015 | viewed 6,568 times

  Shell’s ambitious plans to finally return to the Arctic face yet another hurdle, one that could delay drilling once again.Shell is using the port of…

• David V. Goliath: Small-Cap Tech To Save Giant Coal

  Published 05 May 2015 | viewed 19,585 times

  The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) new mercury pollution regulations that took effect last month opened the flood gates for a new multi-billion-dollar energy industry that…

• Putin Betting On An Argentinian Shale Boom

  Published 24 April 2015 | viewed 13,880 times

  Russia is making a play for shale gas – in Argentina. Russian state-owned natural gas giant Gazprom signed a memorandum of cooperation with Argentina’s YPF…

• Is This Where Investors Should Be Looking When Oil Recovers?

  Published 18 April 2015 | viewed 25,625 times

  When oil prices recover—and plenty of analysts think the climb back up will start soon—Canada’s western frontier of Saskatchewan and neighboring Alberta will ‘still have…

• Latest EIA Predictions Should Be Taken With More Than A Pinch Of Salt

  Published 15 April 2015 | viewed 31,191 times

  The U.S. government released its landmark Annual Energy Outlook on April 14, with some rather bold predictions about the future of oil and gas. The…

• The Game-Changing Water Revolution: Interview with Stanley Weiner

  Published 13 April 2015 | viewed 36,161 times

  Globally, water demand is threatening to dangerously outpace supply, while in the US, dry states such as Texas and California are suffering from shortages and…