Nick Cunningham is an independent journalist, covering oil and gas, energy and environmental policy, and international politics. He is based in Portland, Oregon.
It is becoming increasingly difficult for the oil majors to discover new sources of oil. The industry is in a state of crisis and could…
Land prices in West Texas are getting a little ridiculous. The Permian Basin has emerged more or less as the last man standing for shale…
Canadian oil companies have struggled for years to build enough pipeline capacity to get their oil out of landlocked Alberta, and more than a handful…
One of the world’s largest oil projects could soon come online, bringing a rush of new supply that could delay the oil market balance. The…
Oil prices plunged more than 2 percent on Tuesday after the IEA said that global oil demand is slowing. In its latest Oil Market Report,…
The Obama administration shocked the oil industry last week, pulling the plug on a major oil pipeline from the Bakken that had become a flashpoint…
Norway has pushed the oil and gas boundaries further north in recent years, opening up the Arctic for drilling. But low oil prices and environmental…
Aging infrastructure could render the U.S. strategic petroleum reserve (SPR) increasingly ineffective, according to a new report from the Department of Energy. The U.S. has…
Oil price movements in September will largely be at the mercy of central banks and OPEC, with supply and demand figures not offering conclusive evidence…
A 5.6-magnitude earthquake shook Oklahoma this past weekend, enough to rank it as among one of the state’s most powerful on record. The earthquake, which…
Oil prices have continued to languish below $50 per barrel as a glut of crude oil and gasoline persist even as global demand continues to…
In August, when OPEC floated the idea of meeting once again to discuss the possibility of a production freeze, oil prices skyrocketed, ending the bear…
Hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets in Caracas on September 1, demanding the removal of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Estimates peg the…
The oil majors will have an extraordinarily difficult time trying to maintain their hefty dividends in today’s oil market environment, and unless oil prices rebound…
The oil industry only discovered about 2.7 billion barrels of new supply in 2015, a tiny fraction of the annual average for the past fifty…
The collapse of oil prices has ground shale drilling to a halt, but the one region where drilling is still active, and even increasing, is…
Several dozen environmental groups are once again working together to stop a major oil pipeline, hoping to bring back the magic of the fight against…
The electric car revolution is already underway, and if the long-term projections are even remotely close to accurate, the effects will ripple through every corner…
The Iraqi government is asking international oil companies operating in the country to continue to produce oil, but to get used to lower oil prices.…
OPEC’s decision to hold a previously unscheduled meeting next month in Algeria sparked a massive price rally, adding about $8 per barrel to WTI and…