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Nick Cunningham

Contributor since: 04 Nov 2013

Nick Cunningham

Nick Cunningham is an independent journalist, covering oil and gas, energy and environmental policy, and international politics. He is based in Portland, Oregon. 

Latest articles from Nick

  • Shale Drillers Hedge, Putting A Cap On Any Oil Price Rally

    Published 28 March 2017 | viewed 32,598 times

    Shale companies are increasing their hedging in order to provide some clarity for 2017 and guard against another possible downturn in prices. U.S. shale companies…

  • OPEC Weighs Extension As Oil Markets Start To Lose Their Nerve

    Published 27 March 2017 | viewed 22,504 times

    To extend or not extend? Officials from OPEC and a select few non-OPEC countries met over the weekend to review the state of the oil…

  • Mexico Sees Its First International Offshore Drilling Success

    Published 26 March 2017 | viewed 23,145 times

    Italian oil company Eni drilled the first well by an international oil company in Mexican waters, and on March 23 they said the well indicated…

  • Venezuela In Dire Straits As Oil Production Falls Further

    Published 23 March 2017 | viewed 40,102 times

    Venezuela’s economic crisis continues to deepen. The South American OPEC member is thought to be sitting on nearly 300 billion barrels of oil, far more…

  • OPEC Out Of Moves As Goldman Sachs Expects Another Oil Glut In 2018

    Published 22 March 2017 | viewed 43,515 times

    Oil prices are heading down again on swelling U.S. crude oil inventories, with Brent dropping below $50 per barrel for the first time this year.…

  • Can Big Oil Survive A CO2 Crackdown?

    Published 21 March 2017 | viewed 11,573 times

    Over the long run, the oil business is under threat. There are various arguments about why that might happen. Peak supply people argue we are…

  • Trump’s Budget: Valuing Military Over Energy

    Published 21 March 2017 | viewed 10,602 times

    Last week President Trump unveiled his budget blueprint, which detailed savage cuts to most areas of discretionary spending while boosting defense outlays by a whopping…

  • Oil Has Room To Fall As Speculators Bail On Bullish Bets

    Published 20 March 2017 | viewed 20,610 times

    Last week, after WTI dipped to $48, it seemed to firm up a bit on assurances from OPEC regarding compliance with its cuts, and a…

  • The Single Biggest Threat To An OPEC Deal Extension

    Published 19 March 2017 | viewed 24,900 times

    If OPEC fails to agree to extend their production cuts for another six months, Iraq could be a major reason why. For many years after…

  • Wall Street Bullish On Oil Prices Despite Saudi Warnings

    Published 16 March 2017 | viewed 26,899 times

    Oil prices have given up some of the gains achieved since the OPEC deal was agreed to in late November, and confidence in the buoyancy…

  • Saudi Arabia Undermines The OPEC Deal By Increasing Production

    Published 15 March 2017 | viewed 18,835 times

    With the oil markets rattled after sharp losses in recent days, the IEA is telling everyone to slow down and stay the course, as the…

  • Natural Gas Prices Could Plunge Below $2

    Published 14 March 2017 | viewed 38,216 times

    So far this year, natural gas has performed the worst among major commodities, posting painful losses in January and February. It has rebounded somewhat in…

  • New Oil Price War Looms As The OPEC Deal Falls Short

    Published 13 March 2017 | viewed 60,178 times

    Last November, OPEC orchestrated an impressive feat: corralling all (or nearly all) of its members to sign on to relatively aggressive production cut deal, and…

  • Keystone XL Does Not Make Sense Anymore

    Published 13 March 2017 | viewed 35,810 times

    Canada’s oil industry is facing a dilemma – three major proposed pipelines but perhaps only room enough for two of them. For years, the oil…

  • Huge Oil Find Could Save Alaska’s Oil Sector

    Published 12 March 2017 | viewed 29,577 times

    Spanish oil firm Repsol SA just announced the largest onshore oil discovery in the U.S. in three decades, a 1.2 billion barrel find on Alaska’s…

  • U.S. Shale Kills Off The Oil Price Rally

    Published 09 March 2017 | viewed 49,216 times

    Oil prices plunged on Wednesday and Thursday, dropping to their lowest levels since December when the optimism surrounding the OPEC deal was just getting underway.…

  • OPEC Offers Olive Branch To U.S. Shale

    Published 08 March 2017 | viewed 32,905 times

    Anybody who is anybody in the world of oil is gathering in Houston this week for the IHS CERAWeek Conference, an annual get-together of top…

  • Can U.S. Shale Fight Off Rising Costs?

    Published 08 March 2017 | viewed 12,713 times

    Shale drilling has become a lot cheaper over the past three years, with new drilling techniques, efficiency gains and learning-by-doing helping to lower breakeven costs.…

  • IEA: Huge Oil Price Spike Inevitable

    Published 07 March 2017 | viewed 89,674 times

    Three years of drastic cuts to upstream spending because of the meltdown in oil prices could result in a shortage of oil supply in a…

  • Trump To Undo Fuel Efficiency Standards

    Published 06 March 2017 | viewed 21,826 times

    The Trump administration is set to undo one of former President Obama’s signature achievements. On Tuesday, the EPA and the Transportation Department are expected to…

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