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Russia Readies Fuel Deliveries To Athens, Will Support Greek “Economic Revival”
Russia Readies Fuel Deliveries To Athens, Will Support Greek “Economic Revival” Russia and Greece have a “special relationship of spiritual kinship and religious and historical affinity,” Vladimir Putin said yesterday, following the BRICS summit in Ulfa. Over the course of the unfolding crisis in Greece, Athens has at various times gone out of its way to remind Angela […]
Greenwash: Shell May Remove “Oil” From Name as it Moves to Tap Arctic, Gulf of Mexico
Greenwash: Shell May Remove “Oil” From Name as it Moves to Tap Arctic, Gulf of Mexico Shell Oil has announced it may take a page out of the BP “Beyond Petroleum” greenwashing book, rebranding itself as something other than an oil company for its United States-based unit. Marvin Odum, director of Shell Oil’s upstream subsidiary companies in the Americas, told Bloomberg the name Shell […]
A Glut For Natural Gas Too?
A Glut For Natural Gas Too? Oil is not the only energy source that is seeing a glut. Growing supplies of natural gas could soon result in a similar phenomenon. It was only a year and a half ago that the United States, and the northeast in particular, saw supplies dwindle to exceptionally low levels, […]
Revolution? More like a crawl
Revolution? More like a crawl The energy visionary Vaclav Smil — Bill Gates’s favorite author — says that when our leaders promise quick energy transformations, they’re getting it very wrong. America in 2015 finds itself almost in a new energy reality. It recently became the world’s second–largest extractor of crude oil, and since 2010 has been the leading producer of natural gas, whose abundant and inexpensive […]
BC Natural Gas Reserves Inflated, Revenues Overstated, Report Finds
BC Natural Gas Reserves Inflated, Revenues Overstated, Report Finds Analyst David Hughes offers another challenge to the province’s nascent industry. A new report on liquefied natural gas prospects for British Columbia challenges government claims that gas exports will lower greenhouse gas emissions, or generate $100 billion in profits for the province. The report published today by David […]
Have Natural Gas Prices Bottomed?
Have Natural Gas Prices Bottomed? Last Friday we finally got confirmation of where all the natural gas supply has been coming from as Cabot (COG) reported its earnings. Just like Chesapeake (CHK), they reduced natural gas output, but on a much grander scale. CHK has yet to report and will do so on May 6th […]
How Much Water Does The Energy Sector Use?
How Much Water Does The Energy Sector Use? Water and energy have a symbiotic relationship. Energy is needed to move water to people and businesses. Water, in turn, is necessary to produce energy. Of course, different types of energy require varying levels of water use. Take electricity generation as an example. For the United States, electricity […]
Natural Gas Prices To Crash Unless Rig Count Falls Fast
Natural Gas Prices To Crash Unless Rig Count Falls Fast Spending cuts for oil-directed drilling have dominated first quarter 2015 energy news but rig counts for shale gas drilling are too high. Investors should pay attention to this growing problem. Bank of America fearssub-$2 gas prices now that winter heating worries are over. Low natural gas […]
Investors Crushed as US Natural Gas Drillers Blow Up
Investors Crushed as US Natural Gas Drillers Blow Up The Fed speaks, the dollar crashes. The dollar was ripe. The entire world had been bullish on it. Down nearly 3% against the euro, before recovering some. The biggest drop since March 2009. Everything else jumped. Stocks, Treasuries, gold, even oil. West Texas Intermediate had been […]
Commodities crash: Bad news for the world economy, but is anyone listening?
Commodities crash: Bad news for the world economy, but is anyone listening? Reading the general run of financial headlines might lead one to believe that price declines in those commodities which are highly sensitive to economic conditions such as iron ore, copper, oil, natural gas, coal, and lumber are good on their face. Obviously, the declines aren’t good for those who sell these commodities. […]
Energy Sector Outlook for 2015
Energy Sector Outlook for 2015 It appears that crude oil prices are starting to stabilize. At least they’ve started to decline slower. Most of the “experts” who send me their price forecasts have the low being set in the $45 to $55 range. This week we will see the first major winter storm of the […]
Natural Gas Futures Drop Below $3 for First Time Since 2012 – Bloomberg
Natural Gas Futures Drop Below $3 for First Time Since 2012 – Bloomberg. Natural gas futures slumped below $3 per million British thermal units for the first time since 2012 on speculation that record production will overwhelm demand for the heating fuel. Futures have slid 29 percent this year, heading for the first annual decline […]
First Oil, now US Natural Gas Plunges off the Chart, “Negative Igniter” for New Debt Crisis | Wolf Street
First Oil, now US Natural Gas Plunges off the Chart, “Negative Igniter” for New Debt Crisis | Wolf Street. Friday, natural gas futures plunged 6%. Monday morning, when folks were thinking about the beautiful Santa Rally, NG futures plunged nearly 10% to $3.12 per million Btu, the lowest since January 10, 2013. But the crazy […]
U.K. Sees Flat Winter Gas Use Amid Minimal Ukraine Risk – Bloomberg
U.K. Sees Flat Winter Gas Use Amid Minimal Ukraine Risk – Bloomberg. U.K. natural gas demand this winter will be little changed from last year and Britain will be able to withstand a potential cut in Russian supply to Europe, according to National Grid Plc. Gas use in the six-month period from October will be unchanged from […]
