Nick Cunningham is an independent journalist, covering oil and gas, energy and environmental policy, and international politics. He is based in Portland, Oregon.
The oil markets have suddenly been hit with a multitude of unexpected supply disruptions, the largest of which comes from the more than 1 million…
In a surprise move, Saudi Arabia sacked its long-time oil minister over the weekend, an event that illustrates the near-total control that the new young…
As the Keystone XL saga made clear, Alberta has had trouble getting its oil and gas to markets outside of the province. That trouble continues…
Oil prices jumped on Thursday as surprise outages came from Canada and Libya, reversing several days of losses. WTI and Brent surged by more than…
More earnings reports are trickling in. Royal Dutch Shell is the last oil major to report first quarter earnings, and like its peers, the Anglo-Dutch…
The shale boom in the United States, which led to a 75 percent increase in oil production between 2010 and 2015, has seriously diminished the…
A key natural gas pipeline that would have connected shale gas from Pennsylvania to the northeast U.S. was blocked on April 22 by New York…
For weeks, large gatherings of protestors have roiled the political establishment in Iraq, forcing the government to scramble to address their concerns while also holding…
On Tuesday, Venezuela shortened its workweek to just two days as the country suffers through a deepening power crisis. Venezuela sources about 60 percent of…
Once again its earnings season and the first quarter is likely to be one of the most closely watched in a long time since it…
Oil speculators are growing more confident that prices are gaining ground on the back of rising demand and shrinking supply. U.S. gasoline demand is at…
On Monday, Saudi Arabia released a blueprint for the future, a plan for the Kingdom that could alter the course of its history. The “Vision…
The first U.S. LNG shipment will soon arrive in Europe, marking a new era for energy on the continent. Cheniere Energy’s newly completed Sabine Pass…
Oil production from the North Sea posted gains in 2015 for the second year in a row, but the recent uptick in output could be…
The rally in oil prices by about 50 percent since April are pushing up global currencies. The collapse of commodity prices over the past year…
The oil markets have already seem to have forgotten about the failed Doha summit this weekend, with WTI and Brent regaining all of the ground…
By now everyone not living under a rock has heard the Doha talks have collapsed without a deal, but it is hard to overstate how…
Canada’s oil production could see a small increase this year as several major projects that were planned before the collapse in oil prices reach their…
Oil prices surged this week on the back of falling U.S. oil production and the growing rumors that the Doha summit between OPEC and Russia…
“Cheap natural gas is killing coal.” While that headline has been written dozens of times over the last few years, it continues to be true.…