Trump Approves Keystone XL Pipeline, Making Good on Campaign Promise
Although additional regulatory approvals, lawsuits, and protests loom, the controversial Keystone XL pipeline now looks likely to proceed.
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Oil And Gas States Forced To Cut Education Spending
The oil price slump has put pressure on the budgets of the U.S. oil and coal states.
Read more...New Oil Price War Looms As The OPEC Deal Falls Short
The OPEC deal last year was weak and is vulnerable to US shale players increasing production.
Read more...How Russia Is Using Oil Deals To Secure Its Influence In The Middle East
A string of oil deals between Russian oil companies and Arab petrostates have shifted the center of political gravity in the Middle East and North Africa towards Moscow
Read more...Iraq: “Is It Oil?”
Why the Iraq oil problem was not so much access, as in meeting U.S. oil needs, but that U.S. firms had been frozen out of Iraq.
Read more...Biggest Gasoline Glut In 27 Years Could Crash Oil Markets
High gasoline and crude inventories do not bode well for oil prices this year.
Read more...Rex Tillerson Backs Aggressive Policy in Disputed South China Sea as Exxon, Russia Eye Region’s Oil and Gas
Oil may be a big reason behind the Trump Administration’s aggressive stance towards China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea.
Read more...‘Biggest Oil Find’ of 2016 Puts Crown Jewel Texas Oasis in Crosshairs for Fracking
Texas is about to sacrifice one of its few sources of fresh water, as well as the wildlife in the area, to the oil industry.
Read more...A Tale of Two Countries: Nigeria and the U.S.
How the US and Nigeria wound up with increasingly similar systems, such as centralized, presidential-focused politics.
Read more...North Dakota Governor: DAPL Likely to Get Easement Once Trump Is President
Trump is likely to give DAPL, the Dakota Access Pipeline, an easement despite Army Corps of Engineers’ objections.
Read more...How Tillerson Could Jeopardize Geopolitics In Iraq
Rex Tillerson’s deal with the Kurds when he was Exxon CEO undermined the US in Iraq. How would he square this circle if confirmed?
Read more...The Oil Supply Glut Is Here To Stay In 2017
Why oil prices will stay soft this year.
Read more...Matthew Cunningham-Cook: How Finance Is Starving Yemen
Who is backing and profiting from the Saudi campaign for mass extermination in Yemen?
Read more...10 Reasons Trump Won’t Lead A Nuclear Renaissance
Even though Trump is keen about nukes, a look at energy markets shows why his enthusiasm won’t boost nuclear energy generally.
Read more...Tom Engelhardt: The Future According to Trump
Gaming out some likely Trump scenarios.
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