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• How Junior Companies Survive in the Exploration Wild: Interview with Blackbird

  Published 26 February 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Only the fittest can survive in today's market for junior oil and gas companies, which must demonstrate a great deal of ingenuity in the balancing…

• Boundless Natural Gas, Boundless Opportunities: Interview with EIA Chief

  Published 24 February 2014 | viewed 0 times

  The Energy Information Agency (EIA) has predicted that natural gas production in the US will continue to grow at an impressive pace. Right now output…

• The Golden Age of Gas, Possibly: Interview with the IEA

  Published 11 February 2014 | viewed 0 times

  The potential for a golden age of gas comes along with a big "if" regarding environmental and social impact. The International Energy Agency (IEA)--the "global…

• Iraqi Government Threatens Action Against Kurds as Oil Exports Set to Begin

  Published 30 January 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Affairs firmly stated the central government will take action, "including fiscal measures," if Kurdistan begins exporting oil without coming…

• Market Disruptor: Nuclear Restarts Spells Trouble for LNG

  Published 27 January 2014 | viewed 0 times

  There are two major factors that have emerged in the last five years that have sparked a surge in LNG investments. First is the shale…

• New EPA Rule Requires Chemical Disclosure for Offshore Fracking

  Published 14 January 2014 | viewed 0 times

  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency published a rule on January 9, 2014 requiring oil and gas companies using hydraulic fracturing off the coast of California…

• Violence Threatens to Thwart Iraqi Oil Resurgence

  Published 09 January 2014 | viewed 0 times

  A wave of violence has swept parts of Iraq at the start of 2014 as the central government fights back against Al-Qaeda aligned militants in…

• Ukraine's Two New Energy Deals

  Published 12 December 2013 | viewed 0 times

  If one was to believe the picture that most Western media outlets are painting, Ukraine has been lost to Russia. Though the country fought valiantly…

• Are Canadian Energy Stocks Set for a Rebound? Interview with Colin Soares

  Published 20 November 2013 | viewed 0 times

  As Canadian energy stocks are finally seeing a bit of a push, and demand for Canadian commodities looks set to rise, juniors are confident that…

• Deliver or Die: Financial Survival Challenges for Today's Junior Oil Companies

  Published 15 November 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Long gone are the days of easy money, so it seems. Junior energy companies are finding today's capital to be more expensive and harder to…

• Egypt Marches to a Saudi Drummer

  Published 14 November 2013 | viewed 0 times

  General El-Sisi may have found the solution to Egypt's economic woes. It is called war. During the weeks up to the coup, General El-Sisi had…

• Ukraine and Turkey: The European Energy Coup

  Published 23 October 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Though Norway in June overtook Russia in total exports of natural gas to Europe, the balance of Russian gas to Europe comes through Ukraine, which…

• The Big Winners in Kenya's Oil Debut

  Published 21 October 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Kenya will start pumping its first commercial oil next year and begin exporting in 2016, but this is just the opening salvo: new discoveries in…

• Don't Be Fooled by Libya - This is a Failed State

  Published 10 October 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Gunmen today seized Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan from a hotel in central Tripoli, releasing him shortly afterwards, but making it clear that post-Gaddafi Libya…

• Balancing Geological Potential and Political Risk: Interview with Tony Hayward

  Published 08 October 2013 | viewed 0 times

  From Kurdistan to Somaliland, for independent oil companies, getting your hands on new exploration acreage where both technical risk and political risk are low is…

• The Shale Boom, Just Getting Started: Interview with Tyler Cowen

  Published 30 September 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Thanks to the shale boom, markets already perceive the trade balance optimizing, energy prices are cheaper than they would otherwise be and we've even cut…

• Egypt for Sale

  Published 23 September 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Three years has seen the overturn of two government, the deaths of thousands of people and the destruction of much of the Egyptian economy. In…

• Mideast Oil Loses Some of its Power

  Published 04 September 2013 | viewed 0 times

  On his way back from the Yalta conference in February 1945 where US President Franklin D. Roosevelt met with Great Britain's Winston Churchill and the…

• Exploring for Oil in Nicaragua: Friends in High Places

  Published 29 August 2013 | viewed 0 times

  On 17 July, Nicaragua announced that US-based Noble Energy would invest $30 million in drilling two offshore wells in the Caribbean--launching Nicaragua's first-ever oil exploration.…

• Time for Investors to Hunker Down

  Published 27 August 2013 | viewed 0 times

  It's time to step out from my 'normal' role as the 'energy expert' and make a comment or two on the markets in general, just…