Nick Cunningham

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• Frack Now, Pay Later: A New Era In U.S. Oil?

  Published 10 August 2015 | viewed 16,057 times

  With oil prices now dipping close to six-year lows, the energy sector is getting thumped across the board. The double-dip will likely cause fresh cuts…

• Bullish Bets On Oil Go Sour

  Published 08 August 2015 | viewed 14,079 times

  Prominent hedge fund manager Andy Hall got burned in July after oil prices crashed. Heading up Astenbeck Capital Management, Hall has made very large bets…

• The Latest Contender For The Next Shale Boom

  Published 06 August 2015 | viewed 13,741 times

  The largest natural gas producer in Africa is overhauling its laws in order to halt the decline of production, which has stagnated for more than…

• Global Oil Supply More Fragile Than You Think

  Published 05 August 2015 | viewed 34,925 times

  Many oil companies had trimmed their budgets heading into 2015 to deal with lower oil prices. But the rebound in April and May to $60…

• Could WTI Trade At A Premium To Brent By Next Year?

  Published 04 August 2015 | viewed 26,840 times

  A flood of bearish news has pushed down oil prices to their lowest levels in months, with WTI nearing $45 per barrel and Brent flirting…

• EPA’s Clean Power Plan Tougher Than Expected

  Published 03 August 2015 | viewed 9,578 times

  The Obama administration unveiled a much-anticipated, controversial rule on the regulation of greenhouse gases from power plants on August 3. The first-of-their-kind limits on carbon…

• Recession Risk Mounting For Canada

  Published 01 August 2015 | viewed 14,636 times

  The latest economic data from Canada shows that it is inching towards recession, after its economy posted its fifth straight month of contraction. Statistics Canada…

• Bad Second Quarter Has Oil Majors Restructuring

  Published 30 July 2015 | viewed 10,514 times

  The second quarter was not kind to some of the oil majors. Royal Dutch Shell revealed that its quarterly profits dropped by 33 percent compared…

• Low Oil Prices Enable India To Abolish Subsidies And Start Taxing Fuels

  Published 29 July 2015 | viewed 19,008 times

  The difficulty for the international community in coming to an agreement on carbon emissions has largely been due to the great divide between developed and…

• Ongoing Security Concerns In Kurdistan Have Oil Companies On Edge

  Published 28 July 2015 | viewed 13,792 times

  Iraq has successfully ramped up oil production in recent months despite ongoing violence. According to Deutsche Bank, Iraq produced 4.1 million barrels of oil per…

• Pessimism Amongst Oil Traders Reaches 5 Year High

  Published 27 July 2015 | viewed 19,625 times

  With oil prices hitting their lowest levels since March, a renewed sense of gloom has washed over oil markets, and with it, fears over deeper…

• Oil Price Rout Set To Inflict Real Pain On Russia

  Published 25 July 2015 | viewed 28,100 times

  Russia may have though it was out of the woods this past spring when oil prices started to rise, but the onset of another bear…

• Senate Sidesteps Key Issues In Latest Energy Bill

  Published 23 July 2015 | viewed 7,426 times

  The U.S. Senate is hoping to move the first major energy legislation since 2007, avoiding a lot of controversial issues that could stand in the…

• Strategic Petroleum Reserve No Longer Key Part Of U.S. National Security

  Published 22 July 2015 | viewed 20,282 times

  The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), once seen as a cornerstone of America’s energy security, is losing its shine in Washington.The SPR was established in…

• Iran-Pakistan Pipeline Receives Boost from Nuclear Deal

  Published 20 July 2015 | viewed 14,738 times

  The Iran nuclear deal could provide Iran’s neighbors with an opportunity to import natural gas. Iran sits on the world’s second largest reserves of natural…

• Can U.S. Nuclear Plants Operate For 80 Years?

  Published 18 July 2015 | viewed 24,143 times

  The nuclear industry in the United States has been at a standstill for several decades. After an extraordinary wave of construction in the 1960s and…

• Mexico’s First Offshore Auction A Major Disappointment

  Published 16 July 2015 | viewed 18,684 times

  There has been a lot of hype surrounding the historic energy reform that Mexico’s government pushed through over the past few years, opening up the…

• The Battle For China’s Oil Market

  Published 15 July 2015 | viewed 34,274 times

  China has long been concerned about the security of its oil supply. China was a net oil exporter in the 1990s, but as the economy…

• Greece Looks To Offshore Oil And Gas

  Published 14 July 2015 | viewed 18,249 times

  Greece is in an economic depression. Whether or not it agrees to the ruinous terms imposed upon it by its creditors in order to obtain…

• Oil Price Rebound Looking Unlikely

  Published 13 July 2015 | viewed 19,202 times

  Oil prices may have firmed up a bit this spring, but we could be heading into another protracted period of weak prices. First there are…