Stuart Burns

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• What Happens If Oil Prices Go Negative?

  Published 21 March 2020 | viewed 441,487 times

  Various reports hit the news feeds today quoting a deliberately headline-grabbing statement by Paul Sankey, managing director at Mizuho Securities, in which he is reported…

• Will Europe Cave To Trump’s Tariff Threats?

  Published 14 November 2019 | viewed 6,680 times

  Not everyone agrees with the use of tariffs to achieve changes in trade relations. However, a recent article in The New York Times article reports the…

• Rising Costs Weigh On Permian Gas Production

  Published 10 September 2018 | viewed 10,349 times

  To be fair, not all shale gas drilling is slowing, but in the Permian Basin, which has seen the most incandescent growth in recent years, according…

• Wind Energy Is Getting Cheaper And Cheaper

  Published 18 July 2018 | viewed 19,225 times

  Who would have thought wind’s transformation from subsidy-supported to self-financing power source would happen so quickly – not this publication, that’s for sure. Apart from…

• The Uncertain Future Of Natural Gas

  Published 14 December 2017 | viewed 23,160 times

  Natural gas has long been promoted as a less-polluting alternative to coal and less-costly alternative to nuclear power. Its green credentials are not whiter than…

• OPEC’s Latest Agreement May Not Stabilize Oil Prices

  Published 05 December 2017 | viewed 13,107 times

  The 14-strong Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), along with 10 oil states outside of the cartel, has reached an agreement to limit oil output…

• What Stopped The Oil Rally Dead In Its Tracks?

  Published 19 January 2017 | viewed 10,492 times

  After a recovery late last year, the oil market seems to have settled with a price around $55 a barrel… at least for now. That…

• Proving Them Wrong: How The U.S. Oil And Gas Industry Survived

  Published 31 August 2016 | viewed 28,381 times

  The Saudis counted them out. So did the Russians, even many domestic analysts said North American shale and tight oil and gas production would decline…

• Why Downsizing Nuclear Reactors May Save The Industry

  Published 24 March 2016 | viewed 6,560 times

  With cheap shale gas and falling power costs from renewables such as solar, nuclear power looks like yesterday’s technology but, for two reasons, it still…

• Oil Price Pain: Who’s Next After Emerging Markets And Fracking?

  Published 18 December 2014 | viewed 9,474 times

  The price of oil has sunk almost 50% since June with West Texas Intermediate crude slipping below $60 a barrel last week and Brent falling…

• End Of Life Costs For Nuclear Power A Real Concern

  Published 15 November 2014 | viewed 9,404 times

  Nuclear power stirs considerable controversy but we have broadly been a supporter of the technology in part because of its low emissions and running cost,…

• UK Renewables May Be Turning The Tide

  Published 28 October 2014 | viewed 43,244 times

  With the exception of geothermal energy most forms of renewable electricity generation have an intermittency to their delivery. Even hydro-electric power can fall short in…

• Negative Outlook In Q4 For Crude And Refined Product Prices

  Published 15 September 2014 | viewed 11,198 times

  In a recent post we looked at the state of the crude oil market, how demand has been weak as a result of refinery maintenance…

• Natural Gas As A Trucking Fuel Fails To Deliver

  Published 21 August 2014 | viewed 15,280 times

  Much has been made of the potential for natural gas as a fuel for the trucking and rail industries.The dramatic fall in natural gas prices…

• US Shale Oil Production Causes WTI Price to Fall

  Published 28 October 2013 | viewed 13,099 times

  According to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, U.S. crude oil inventories rose by 5.2 million barrels last week, the fifth largest build of…

• Oil Prices Rise, Yet Global Inventories Remain Healthy

  Published 29 August 2013 | viewed 7,341 times

  We’ve seen oil prices rise recently due to concerns in the Middle East (Syria’s violence escalating, and Libya showing oil exports and production at the…

• Syrian Uncertainty to Cause Oil Price Spike?

  Published 28 August 2013 | viewed 11,194 times

  Don’t you just love stories of intrigue?Well, sure, when they are just stories – but if there is the possibility that they are a fair…

• US Energy Department Claims the Cost of Solar Power will Fall 75% by 2020

  Published 20 August 2013 | viewed 26,810 times

  Not one to shy away from overstatement, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard is not a writer we would normally quote extensively; well-renowned as the Telegraph newspaper is, for…

• China to Implement a Carbon Trading Scheme in its Battle Against Rising Emission

  Published 15 August 2013 | viewed 9,386 times

  No one would argue that pollution is a major problem in China.As the world’s largest emitter of carbon dioxide, it will be interesting to see…

• Why GDP should not be Trusted for Measuring Social Satisfaction in China

  Published 07 August 2013 | viewed 5,447 times

  It has long been common lore that China has to maintain GDP growth of something like 7% in order to avoid social unrest, but a…