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Exxon CEO Warns Overemphasis On Renewables Could Backfire
Exxon CEO Warns Overemphasis On Renewables Could Backfire Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE:XOM) CEO Darren Woods has urged companies to stop focusing on certain energy sources, such as renewable energy, to save the climate, warning that it would be a “huge mistake to be picking winners and losers and focusing on specific technologies”. Instead, “we need to look more […]
Investors Have Now Spent $5 Billion Pursuing The “Holy Grail Of Energy”
Investors Have Now Spent $5 Billion Pursuing The “Holy Grail Of Energy” When it comes to nuclear fusion, the joke is that it is always just decades away, but that hasn’t stopped investors from spending $5 billion on chasing the holy grail of energy. In 2022, investors spent twice as much money as has ever […]
Dodgy Demand Data? The Oil Price Collapse Conspiracy
Dodgy Demand Data? The Oil Price Collapse Conspiracy WTI oil prices have given up nearly all their gains since Russia invaded Ukraine, falling roughly 9.5% over the course of the week amid fears oil demand is collapsing. Some oil pundits are now claiming that the Biden administration has been fabricating low gasoline demand data in […]
Biden Asks The World For Help Easing The Global Energy Crisis
Biden Asks The World For Help Easing The Global Energy Crisis Oil prices have fallen below a key psychological barrier on news that Biden is trying to persuade a number of countries to release crude from their Strategic Petroleum Reserves. Biden’s highly unusual move comes just months after he made another request to OPEC+ to […]
One Of Wall Street’s Biggest Oil Bears Sees Higher Crude Prices On The Horizon
One Of Wall Street’s Biggest Oil Bears Sees Higher Crude Prices On The Horizon Standard Chartered Global Research has maintained its somewhat bearish oil price outlook during the last couple of months, but last week, the investment bank suddenly turned bullish Standard Chartered raised its 2021 average Brent price forecast by USD 6/bbl to USD […]
Biomass: The EU’s Great ‘Clean Energy’ Fraud
Biomass: The EU’s Great ‘Clean Energy’ Fraud “The professionalization of the biomass industry is a problem that needs attention.”–Bas Eickhout, Dutch politician and member of the European Parliament. When it comes to the global shift to low-carbon energy sources, Europe has traditionally been viewed as the world leader while the United States has frequently been […]
Big Oil Is In Desperate Need Of New Discoveries
Big Oil Is In Desperate Need Of New Discoveries The year 2020 was a watershed moment for the fossil fuel sector. Faced with a global pandemic, severe demand shocks and a shift towards renewable energy, experts warned that nearly $900 billion worth of reserves–or about one-third of the value of big oil and gas companies–were […]
The Very Real Possibility Of Peak Oil Supply
The Very Real Possibility Of Peak Oil Supply Three months ago, British oil giant BP Plc. (NYSE:BP) sent shockwaves through the oil and gas sector after it declared that Peak Oil demand was already behind us. In the company’s 2020 Energy Outlook, chief executive Bernard Looney pledged that BP would increase its renewables spending twentyfold to $5 billion a […]
Private Equity Is Bargain Hunting In Canada’s Oil Patch
Private Equity Is Bargain Hunting In Canada’s Oil Patch After two months of an encouraging—if not half-hearted–rebound, oil prices have gone into reverse gear once again. Futures tied to WTI crude were down a whopping 8% on Monday morning to trade at $36.35/barrel, a level they last touched two months ago as the markets come […]
Oil Price Crash Sparks A Wave Of Banking Mergers In The Middle East
Oil Price Crash Sparks A Wave Of Banking Mergers In The Middle East The historic oil price crash and Covid-19 pandemic have left major producers of the commodity in a deep economic crisis. Dramatic production cuts by OPEC+ has exacerbated the situation by further lowering export inflows for economies that depend heavily on oil dollars. […]
COVID Crisis Could Unify World’s Largest Oil Companies
COVID Crisis Could Unify World’s Largest Oil Companies Sir Winston Churchill once admonished leaders to never let a good crisis go to waste. Wall Street banks and other large banks have been paying attention: They were shrewd enough to seize the opportunity presented by the last financial crisis to get hard-nosed government agencies to approve […]
The Wave Of Shale Well Closures Has Finally Begun
The Wave Of Shale Well Closures Has Finally Begun U.S. shale oil producers have so far held up admirably, hanging on for dear life amidst the biggest oil demand collapse in history. American producers continued to pump at record highs in March, even after dozens of drillers laid out blueprints to limit production. But with U.S. storage […]
Oil Price War Claims Another Victim
Oil Price War Claims Another Victim The oil price war has already claimed its first victim. Whiting Petroleum Corp. (NYSE: WLL), once the largest oil and gas producer in North Dakota’s Bakken Shale, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy becoming the first major shale producer to do so in the current year. Whiting has cited the “severe […]
The Big Bet Against Italian Banks
The Big Bet Against Italian Banks The eurozone’s third-largest economy, Italy, is marooned in a deep political and economic crisis, with seeming endless problems: an economy that has barely grown in decades, sky-high unemployment rates, ballooning national debt, an inability to form a stable coalition government and, lately, a looming showdown with the EU over […]
