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• Forbes: Aramco Remains Largest Company In The Middle East

  Published 15 June 2023 | viewed 29,046 times

  Aramco is the biggest company in the Middle East in terms of sales, revenues, and market value, according to the latest Forbes list for the top 100…

• Meet The Man Behind The World's Most Exciting Oil Play

  Published 21 June 2021 | viewed 16,864 times

  This is the story about an oil play that so far has lived up to its promise…Namibia is the setting…And a little-known Canadian explorer is…

• Pipeline Hackers Lose Access To Ransom Funds

  Published 14 May 2021 | viewed 3,955 times

  The operator of the ransomware group Darkside said on Friday it had lost control of its servers and some of the money it had made…

• The “Great Car Comeback” Brightens Oil Demand Outlook

  Published 30 April 2021 | viewed 17,588 times

  Despite high vaccination rates in many parts of the world, people appear to be still wary of public transit, opting for personal vehicles, which is…

• Are Bitcoin’s Environmental Risks Overblown?

  Published 17 April 2021 | viewed 6,119 times

  Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have received a lot of negative attention in recent months and years for their absolutely staggering energy consumption. Bitcoin alone consumes…

• Tech Majors Bet Big On Clean Energy

  Published 12 March 2021 | viewed 4,627 times

  In recent years, Big Tech and Big Oil have emerged as some of the biggest buyers of renewable energy, with dozens now covering a substantial…

• Small Oil Firm Gets Massive Wall Street Bets Bump

  Published 29 January 2021 | viewed 3,768 times

  An oil company producing the equivalent of 70 barrels of oil daily surged in value almost 1,000 percent to $128 million thanks to a surge…

• Will Biden Lift Sanctions On Venezuela?

  Published 22 January 2021 | viewed 4,333 times

  The country with the largest proven oil reserves in the world, clocking in at a whopping 299,953,000,000 barrels of proven oil, is currently suffering a…

• India Looks To Import More Venezuelan Oil Under Biden

  Published 21 January 2021 | viewed 3,217 times

  India hopes it could diversify its oil suppliers under the new U.S. Administration that could relax restrictions on oil exports from Iran and Venezuela, India’s…

• Biden Looks To Rejoin Paris Climate Agreement

  Published 20 January 2021 | viewed 3,278 times

  On his first day in office on Wednesday, incoming U.S. President Joe Biden will sign executive orders to reverse decisions of the previous administration and…

• Oil Demand Falters On New Wave Of Lockdowns

  Published 16 January 2021 | viewed 11,019 times

  Road traffic and transportation fuel demand in most of Europe at the start of 2021 is likely at its weakest since the end of the…

• The Most Exciting And Strange Energy Tech Of The Year

  Published 25 December 2020 | viewed 15,641 times

  New energy tech is undergoing a metamorphosis at breakneck speed, whether it’s the stock-boosting driverless Apple car or even masks for cows. Sometimes it’s simply…

• Mexico Is Quietly Pushing Out Foreign Oil Investors

  Published 19 December 2020 | viewed 3,968 times

  For nearly 80 years, Mexico kept its borders closed to foreign oil interests, with the state-owned and -run Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) being the only entity…

• Who Will Pay For The $40 Trillion Energy Transition?

  Published 05 December 2020 | viewed 12,973 times

  The pandemic has multiplied the calls for ‘building back greener’ energy systems as economies recover from COVID-19. From the UK to China, governments around the…

• Biden Will Be A Boon For Solar Stocks

  Published 30 November 2020 | viewed 4,846 times

  With the elections done and dusted and Joe Biden firmly on the road to ascending to the Oval Office, the renewable energy sector is licking…

• Big Oil Is Paying The Price For Investing In Renewables

  Published 20 November 2020 | viewed 7,574 times

  Big Oil has been frequently lambasted for trying to burnish its green credentials through half-hearted investments in renewables. That might have been true for much…

• Saudi Arabia Lost $27 Billion In Oil Crash

  Published 13 November 2020 | viewed 5,352 times

  The oil price collapse is depriving Saudi Arabia of US$27.5 billion in oil revenues this year, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said on Friday,…

• Big Profits Are No Longer The Top Priority For Oil Investors

  Published 26 October 2020 | viewed 7,865 times

  For years, the oil industry drew in investors with sizable—and regular—returns. Even when oil prices fell, Big Oil found ways to keep paying dividends, even…

• Three Renewable Energy IPOs To Watch

  Published 23 October 2020 | viewed 7,477 times

  The IPO market isn’t quite what it was a decade or two ago. Today, more and more startups are opting to remain private or sell…

• The Hydrogen Boom Will Provide A $200B Boost To Wind And Solar Energy

  Published 16 October 2020 | viewed 9,401 times

  The renewable energy sector has lately been sizzling with very bullish projections--and a few bearish ones--coming from Wall Street. Solar stocks have especially been shooting…