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• Can Argentina Capitalize On Its Vast Shale Reserves?

  Published 01 April 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Argentina, once a regional energy leader, is now better known for financial busts and bombastic politicians than hydrocarbons prospects. Still, with a resource potential both…

• Driverless Cars Poised To Transform Automotive Industry

  Published 26 March 2015 | viewed 0 times

  The newest Mercedes autonomous car looks like a car on the outside but like a lounge on the inside, with four swivel seats facing each…

• Wall Street Losing Millions From Bad Energy Loans

  Published 24 March 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Oil companies continue to get burned by low oil prices, but the pain is bleeding over into the financial industry. Major banks are suffering huge…

• 100,000 Layoffs and Counting: Is this the New Normal?

  Published 19 March 2015 | viewed 0 times

  This time a year ago, the oil industry's biggest problem was finding a way to deal with the "retirement tsunami" about to crash down on…

• Texas: From Shale Boom to Water Revolution

  Published 17 March 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Texas is famous the world over for two things on a massive scale: oil and droughts. Now the slick but dry state is becoming famous…

• Consumers Winning With Low Oil Prices, For Now

  Published 12 March 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Lest we be too quick to forget whence we came, America is now 9-months into lower gasoline prices, which started their swoon the week of…

• Everyone Is Guessing When It Comes To Oil Prices

  Published 11 March 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Predicting and diagnosing the trajectory of oil prices has become something of a cottage industry in the past year. But along with all of the…

• Here's What Will Send Oil Prices Back Up Again

  Published 04 March 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Oil's rapid decline since August of last year has been dramatic. To listen to some commentators you would also think it is unprecedented and irreversible.…

• The Easy Oil Is Gone So Where Do We Look Now?

  Published 24 February 2015 | viewed 0 times

  In 2008, Canadian economist Jeff Rubin stunned the oil market with a bold prediction: With the world economy growing at 5 percent a year, oil…

• Is Oil Returning To $100 Or Dropping To $10?

  Published 24 February 2015 | viewed 0 times

  If you have been following the price of oil over the last few months, the chances are you're a little confused. On the one hand…

• Why Oil Prices Must Go Up

  Published 19 February 2015 | viewed 0 times

  It may be difficult to look beyond the current pricing environment for oil, but the depletion of low-cost reserves and the increasing inability to find…

• Oil's Survival Of The Fittest: Interview With Stan Szary

  Published 10 February 2015 | viewed 0 times

  With crude oil prices collapsing and small American oil producers faced with grim choices for survival, the Darwinian nature of commodity market cycles rears its…

• Rise Of The Vulture Investing Class

  Published 05 February 2015 | viewed 0 times

  The oil markets are showing some life, having rallied 11 percent over a two-day period. But if a bigger rebound is not around the corner,…

• Arctic Oil On Life Support

  Published 02 February 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Oil companies have eyed the Arctic for years. With an estimated 90 billion barrels of oil lying north of the Arctic Circle, the circumpolar north…

• Increasing Demand For Refined Products Will Increase Oil Prices

  Published 29 January 2015 | viewed 0 times

  In last week's article I posted a chart from the International Energy Agency'srecent Oil Market Report that shows global demand for refined products catching up…

• Lies And Deception In Ukraine's Energy Sector

  Published 28 January 2015 | viewed 0 times

  The Ukrainian government has repeatedly claimed it is doing its best to improve the oil and gas investment climate, but official statements are the opposite…

• Oil Prices Changing The Face Of Global Geopolitics

  Published 27 January 2015 | viewed 0 times

  In a documentary that aired recently on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's popular The Fifth Estate program, an allegory of Vladimir Putin was presented. The wily…

• Crushing The U.S. Energy Export Dream

  Published 22 January 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Exporting crude oil and natural gas from the United States are among the dumbest energy ideas of all time. Exporting gas is dumb. Exporting oil…

• Oil Price Collapse Hurting Some More Than Others

  Published 21 January 2015 | viewed 0 times

  U.S. oil and gas rig counts dropped to their lowest level in over four years, falling by an additional 74 units for the week ending…

• Back To Basics: Why Conventional Drilling Makes Sense in 2015

  Published 15 January 2015 | viewed 0 times

  This New Year, an old trend may become a new trend as conventional drilling in North America is once again in the spotlight at a…