Search Results for: U.S. crude
Asian stock markets sink after Greece closes banks
June 29th, 2015
Asian stock markets sank Monday after Greece closed its banks and imposed capital controls in a dramatic turn in its struggle with heavy debts. Oil prices declined and the euro edged down against the dollar after Athens announced the ...
What Would A Saudi-Russian Partnership Mean For World Energy?
June 25th, 2015
What happens when two nations, that together account for more than fourth quarter of global oil production, begin collaborating on future energy projects? Russian President Vladimir Putin met Saudi Prince Mohammad in St. Petersburg on June 18 at a ...
Shell Expects Oil Rebound as Shale Fails to Fill Supply Gap
June 4th, 2015
Royal Dutch Shell Plc sees oil prices rising because supply from shale drilling in the U.S. won’t be enough to satisfy growing global demand. The industry needs to find an extra 4 million barrels to 5 million barrels a ...
Expect The Recent Oil Rally To End Badly If OPEC Doesn’t Cut
June 2nd, 2015
The U.S. rig count dropped by 10 rigs this week after only falling by 3 last week. No doubt some analysts will say that this increase is somehow important and that a return to normal–i.e., high oil prices–is around ...
Putin’s Next Takeover Target Is Oil Giant’s $34 Billion Cash Pile
May 12th, 2015
In Russia, even private companies serve at the pleasure of the president, particularly if they pump oil. A decade ago, Vladimir Putin’s allies had Mikhail Khodorkovsky jailed and seized his Yukos Oil Co. Last year, they forced billionaire Vladimir ...
Central Banks Will Be Busy This Week, But Their Ability To Boost Global Business Is In Doubt
April 27th, 2015
Most big central banks have been easing policy since the beginning of the year and are set to do more, but it still isn’t clear whether that new activism, which has pushed stock markets to record highs, will help ...
Chinese, Australian benchmarks lead Asian stock market gains
April 16th, 2015
Most major Asian stock indexes were higher Thursday as Chinese shares rebounded on stimulus hopes a day after gloomy first-quarter economic numbers and Australian shares rose on a surprise drop in the jobless rate. KEEPING SCORE: Most Asian indexes ...
OPEC Going Broke, Dumping Dollars. Is That Good Or Bad?
April 15th, 2015
When oil prices fell out of bed last winter there was much hand-wringing over the fate of the former beneficiaries of high-priced crude. Trillions of dollars of junk bonds issued by frackers, for instance, might default, oil field services ...
Shale Output Is Falling Faster Than Expected
April 15th, 2015
Shale drillers will see production drop sooner than expected under a U.S. government forecast, a momentum change that hints at an eventual price rally. Just five months after Saudi Arabia put the market into a tailspin by refusing to ...
Top 12 Media Myths on oil prices
April 13th, 2015
The upstream oil and gas industry is not a black hole. There’s no mystery wrapped in an enigma here. There are a lot of meetings with engineers, chemists and geologists. There’s a constantly evolving learning curve. And then there’s ...
