Jen Alic

Latest articles from Jen

• Egypt, Take III: No End to the Carnage

  Published 17 August 2013 | viewed 7,535 times

  The Egyptian military had a great opportunity to remake the revolution on 3 July when it overthrew the moribund and definitely failed post-revolutionary Muslim Brotherhood…

• Iraqi Oil Exports Slump But Optimism Abounds

  Published 15 August 2013 | viewed 8,925 times

  On the verge of civil war and total collapse, Iraq’s oil exports are stagnating and the first half of this year has seen the Iraqis…

• E.ON Sees First-Half Profit Slump in Europe

  Published 14 August 2013 | viewed 8,623 times

  E.ON SE, Germany’s gas, electricity and water utility company, has seen first-half profits drop 15% despite a 15% surge in profits from its UK customers…

• Will Moribund Uranium Prices Rebound?

  Published 13 August 2013 | viewed 10,408 times

  Commodities prices are pretty much like the War on Terror—driven by fear. Since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, uranium prices have dropped sharply,…

• ConocoPhillips to Sell Oil Sands Assets to Exxon

  Published 12 August 2013 | viewed 5,666 times

  ConocoPhillips has cut a deal to sell all of its Clyden oil sands property—a total of 226,000 acres--in Canada to ExxonMobil Canada and Imperial Oil…

• BG Group Gets US LNG Export Approval

  Published 10 August 2013 | viewed 15,773 times

  BG Group (LON:BG) and Southern Union are the third to get the green light from the federal government to export LNG to all countries from…

• A Convenient Revival of the War on Terror

  Published 08 August 2013 | viewed 9,339 times

  The 4 August global travel warning and the closure of US embassies in the Middle East and North Africa are partly based on intercepted communications…

• Chesapeake Gives Up On New York Fracking

  Published 07 August 2013 | viewed 6,451 times

  It hasn’t been a great year for Chesapeake Energy (CHK), just coming down from a management meltdown and now giving up on its leases in…

• What Does the US Want in Egypt?

  Published 05 August 2013 | viewed 7,441 times

  What the US wants in Egypt is what it failed to attain in Iraq—stability of the kind that assumes US control over the situation. In…

• JPMorgan Settles Energy Price Fix for $410M

  Published 01 August 2013 | viewed 4,979 times

  JPMorgan Chase & Co. has settled with the federal government for $410 million for charges that it manipulated energy markets in California and Michigan between…

• Why the CIA Is Worried About Geoengineering

  Published 25 July 2013 | viewed 29,961 times

  The CIA is worried about the national security implications of climate change, and it’s also concerned about the potential implications of geoengineering—large-scale deliberate intervention in…

• TransCanada Might Rethink Potential Keystone Launch Date

  Published 24 July 2013 | viewed 8,200 times

  TransCanada Corp. (TRP) was hoping to launch Keystone XL during the second half of 2015, but the company is now conceding that this will be…

• Tesla’s Hyperloop: The Fifth Mode of Transportation

  Published 23 July 2013 | viewed 23,164 times

  Next month, Tesla Motors Inc. (TSLA) Elon Musk plans to unveil his design for the Hyperloop, a sort of superfast tube that will shuttle back…

• Mexico’s Oil Auction Snubbed Ahead of Hoped-for Privatization

  Published 20 July 2013 | viewed 5,548 times

  Mexican state-run Pemex’s 11 July auction of six onshore oil leases in the Chicontepec Formation fell flat, with the three largest concessions receiving no bids…

• Waiting on Kenyan Oil, the Market Grows Impatient

  Published 18 July 2013 | viewed 11,174 times

  It’s been well over a year now since London-listed Tullow Oil struck it big in Kenya, making the country’s first massive oil discovery that set…

• Energy Price Rigging Lands Record Fine for Barclays

  Published 17 July 2013 | viewed 7,296 times

  Barclays (LON:BARC) has been fined $453 million and four of the bank’s traders have been separately fined $18 million for energy price rigging in the Western…

• Exxon Takes $735M Black Sea Plunge

  Published 16 July 2013 | viewed 7,900 times

  Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM) is reportedly preparing to spend a whopping $735 million to drill two deep-water wells offshore Ukraine, in the Black Sea. The…

• Egypt Violence Subsides as Investors Eye New Liberal Faces

  Published 15 July 2013 | viewed 6,698 times

  The violence has largely subsided in Egypt seven days after more than 90 people were killed in clashes between the military and supporters of the…

• Get in on Energy Infrastructure MLPs Now

  Published 10 July 2013 | viewed 7,448 times

  Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs) have been great for returns this year, and right now there is a short window of opportunity to restock your energy…

• GE to ‘Power Africa’, Without the Risk

  Published 08 July 2013 | viewed 7,863 times

  Last weekend, US President Barack Obama unveiled his “power Africa” plan that aims to double access to power in sub-Saharan Africa through $7 billion in…