Reduced U.S. diesel consumption and…
Not since the Cold War…
Israeli authorities claimed to have…
The Insider’s weekly run-down of critical figures and happenings from around the energy world.$200 million. Amount major energy private equity player Riverstone Holdings is investing into unconventional plays…
Croatia: Exploration Tender Goes LiveCroatia has published its international tender for oil and gas exploration blocks in the Adriatic Sea, hoping to launch production in five years. The…
The invasion and annexation of Crimea has EU policymakers scrambling to improve energy security. The European Commission hopes to publish a roadmap by June 2014 that will spell out how…
Sometimes, when we look at a market that is booming and that has risen significantly in a fairly short time it is easy to feel that we have missed the…
With the flattish nature of its action over the past several months, oil seems to have reached a tipping point on price. It’s almost as if the charts are saying…
There’s little in the energy space that I like right now; major indexes look fairly priced and energy stocks offer even less to get excited about. US E+P has had…
Energy in its many forms is traditionally fertile ground for investors that want or need regular income from their investments. Utilities have, even in the last few years of ultra…
What might Putin’s actions in Crimea mean for Kazakhstan, where foreign investors since 2005 have poured more than $170 billion in FDI into the country, primarily in the energy sector?…
New Prospects & DiscoveriesMalaysia: Malaysia’s state-run Petronas and Shell Malaysia last week announced an oil discovery offshore Sabah via the Limbayong-2 well during the appraisal of the Limbayong…
The Insider’s weekly run-down of critical figures and happenings from around the energy world.76.2%. Year-on-year increase in Chinese LNG imports during January. With shipments into the country totaling…
Just in case you are living under a rock and missed it, on Wednesday the new Fed chair, Janet Yellen, gave her first press conference following a rate decision. Fed…
2014 has been a tough year to find value in energy. With oil shale still representing the best investment opportunity in the United States but with the massive run that…
We don’t really need Brad Pitt’s latest documentary film production on Ghana and oil industry greed to tell us that Ghana is in a bit of trouble, coming down…
Stay away from Libya, where a conflict between rebels and the government threatens to spiral into an all-out civil war for control of the country’s oil wealth and the appointment…
The Insider’s weekly run-down of critical figures and happenings from around the energy world.3,941. Calorific value reportedly being considered by the Chinese government as a cut-off for coal…
I am, in general, optimistic about alternative energy in all of its many forms. While it may be a long way off, eventually human kind will have to find alternatives…
It is with incredible equanimity that the media has digested the announcement of a 5 million barrel ‘test’ release from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve on Wednesday, but the market certainly…
Malta, in the heart of the Mediterranean, hasn’t made that one major find to make commercial extraction viable just yet, but it’s only a matter of time--and the low-level security…
The Insider’s weekly run-down of critical figures and happenings from around the energy world.1970. Last year when Australian oil production was lower than the level for 2013—which came…
As Israel takes its newly earned place among the world’s gas exporters, we are focusing this week on the Levant Basin region, where there is a flurry of interest and…