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Castrated
Castrated Take away Saudi Arabia’s oil and all that’s left are a couple of Islamic shrines and a lot of sand and hot air. After three decades of internecine war, Abdul-Aziz bin Saud, allied with the fundamentalist Wahhabist Islamic sect, consolidated the House of Saud’s dominance over Arabia in 1932 with the tacit support of […]
The Year the Oil Bubble Burst
The Year the Oil Bubble Burst As companies are forced to slash value of reserves, industry faces a grim new future. The days of artificially inflated oil prices might be over forever. Teardrop image via Shutterstock. Are we witnessing the beginning of the end for the oil industry? It’s reporting season in the financial world and like […]
Saudi Policy Tied to Weak Economy
Saudi Policy Tied to Weak Economy In recent weeks I have read many oil prognosticators theorizing what the ultimate Saudi strategy is, or what their end game might be. To recap, in mid-2014, Saudi Arabia decided to pump more oil into the market that was already starting seeing rising supply. U.S. shale was largely blamed […]
Supply Outages in OPEC Countries Push Up Oil Prices
Supply Outages in OPEC Countries Push Up Oil Prices Much of the current oil price rally – up about 50 percent in less than two months – is due to the growing optimism in the markets. That is, the price surge is driven by speculative movements, bets that oil prices will rise. However, the speculators […]
Shock Report: Oil Oversupply Exaggerated: Millions of Barrels Go Missing: “Oil Market Could Tighten Substantially”
Shock Report: Oil Oversupply Exaggerated: Millions of Barrels Go Missing: “Oil Market Could Tighten Substantially” You may remember that just two months ago the International Energy Agency warnedthe oil market could “drown in oversupply” in 2016. The outlook for oil, which had tumbled 75% since 2012 and hit a low of $28 per barrel by mid January, was […]
The Fed And The Oil Markets On Unsustainable Path As Election Looms
The Fed And The Oil Markets On Unsustainable Path As Election Looms Oil prices have increased 50 percent since the lows exhibited earlier this year, a rise that is largely linked to the positive market reaction to the OPEC output freeze. That comes even as for all intents and purposes OPEC has nearly reached its […]
The Terrible Oil News Nobody Noticed
The Terrible Oil News Nobody Noticed A terrible bit of news went unnoticed in the commotion amid the modest rebound in oil prices over the past two weeks. While every news outlet shouted about Iran and OPEC, a U.S. energy icon quietly announced news that could potentially shatter the industry. As I’ve explained recently, many oil companies […]
The Coming Collapse of Saudi Arabia
The Coming Collapse of Saudi Arabia They met in secret to plan a devastating attack… Two powerful men, colluding at a palace in the Middle East. In September 2014, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry flew to Saudi Arabia. He was there to meet with King Abdullah, the country’s ruler and one of the […]
Energy Wars of Attrition: The Irony of Oil Abundance
Energy Wars of Attrition: The Irony of Oil Abundance Three and a half years ago, the International Energy Agency (IEA) triggered headlines around the world by predicting that the United States would overtake Saudi Arabia to become the world’s leading oil producer by 2020 and, together with Canada, would become a net exporter of oil around 2030. Overnight, […]
Peak Oil: The Underlying Reality
Peak Oil: The Underlying Reality Sir, Martin Wolf, in ‘Cheap oil puts humanity on a slippery slope’ (December 2) states: ‘The emergence of shale oil underlines what was already fairly clear, namely, that the global supply capacity is not only enormous but expanding. Forget peak oil.’ He is mistaken. Even the International Energy Agency acknowledges […]
Dallas Fed Unplugs Oil Bulls, Warns of Liquidity Crunch, Contagion
Dallas Fed Unplugs Oil Bulls, Warns of Liquidity Crunch, Contagion “Negative ripple effects” The rally in crude oil has been red hot. In the three weeks since February 11, WTI shot up a short-crushing 34% to $34.69 a barrel at the moment. Now the talk in the oil patch is at what price these desperate […]
Exclusive: Newly Released Inspection Reports on Keystone XL’s Southern Route Fuel Doubt Over ‘Safest Pipeline Ever Built’ Claims
Exclusive: Newly Released Inspection Reports on Keystone XL’s Southern Route Fuel Doubt Over ‘Safest Pipeline Ever Built’ Claims TransCanada’s claim that the southern route of the Keystone XL Pipeline is the safest pipeline ever built in the in the United States is challenged by the release of new documentation confirming multiple code violations. Daily inspection reports on the construction […]
A Secret About Oil You Won’t Find Anywhere Else
A Secret About Oil You Won’t Find Anywhere Else This is going to be a far larger problem than Wall Street realizes. In early 1983 – the first week of February, to be precise – the inventory of crude oil in the U.S. reached an all-time economic high. I say “economic high” because nominal supply […]
