Energy

October has been billed as a pivotal month in which indebted shale companies would see their credit lines cut, precipitating a faster consolidation in the industry that would sow the seeds of a rebound. October has been billed as a...

The mere hint of a successful deal over Iran’s nuclear programme is enough to get people excited. In addition, as the country emerges from economic isolation, nowhere is the enthusiasm more keenly felt than in the huge oil firms with...

As we approach winter, many of us start turning the heating back on, but there are thousands of people across the UK who dread the onset of colder weather as they fall into the fuel poverty trap. It is a...

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, has recently been waving huge wads of cash at different (but similarly delinquent) parts of UK nuclear policy. In August, he sailed triumphantly up the Clyde to the Trident-hosting Faslane Naval base to...

Since lower oil prices typically result in depreciation of the oil exporters’ currencies, the dramatic plunge of oil prices has severe implications for sub-Saharan Africa. After the global financial crisis, many emerging economies have coped with diminished global growth prospects...

After billions of dollars invested over several years, Royal Dutch Shell said September 28 it would end oil exploration offshore Alaska after “disappointing” results. However, industry efforts to drill for oil and natural gas in the Arctic are unlikely to...

On September 10 the EIA reported a production decline in the Lower 48—essentially shale production—of 208,000 BOPD. That is a staggeringly enormous number, approximately 10 percent of the estimated global over-supply. Additionally, it was a week-over-week number, which makes it...

In recent years, there has been significant movement toward land acquisition in developing countries to establish forestry plantations for offsetting carbon pollution elsewhere in the world. Land grabbing is the common reference to this practice. These carbon-trading initiatives work on...

The party is over for tight oil.  Despite brash statements by U.S. producers and misleading analysis by Raymond James, low oil prices are killing tight oil companies.  Reports this week from IEA and EIA paint a bleak picture for oil...

As traders, investors and pundits, we all like to think that what we do is akin to a science. We believe that by working harder and being smarter we can give ourselves an edge, that enough research will reveal to...

After decades of exhaustive attempts to overcome the dirty reputation of oil sands, we finally have an environmentally-friendly and low cost method to tap into these vast resources in the state of Utah—good news both for Mother Nature and all...

On 11 August, the Japanese government went along with its plan to revive nuclear energy after the Fukushima disaster by restarting one of the Sendai nuclear power plants. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe insists that Japan cannot thrive without nuclear energy...

"If you are the world's leading energy economy, you produce energy, that's what you do." "A government can stay irrational longer than it can stay solvent." "Even in the short term, you're dead, if you commit suicide." "If you are...

OPEC next gathers December 4 in Vienna, just over a year since Saudi Oil Minister Ali Al-Naimi announced at the previous OPEC winter meeting the Saudi decision to let the oil market determine oil prices rather than to continue Saudi...

By the time the yuan had weakened almost 2%, the slide in commodity prices was cited as evidence of the market's concern that China was going to export deflation.  This weighed on the dollar-bloc currencies, and the currencies of other...