Oil Industry About To Be Burned Again By Fall In Oil Prices
Easy access to capital has driven oil prices lower and is likely to do again as E&P’s directly invest in more rigs ahead of demand.
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John Helmer: The New Byzantine Alliance – Will Russia and Turkey Revolutionize the Center of the Old World?
Putin and Erdogan are meeting in August. Cooperation between Russia and Turkey would represent a major geopolitical realignment.
Read more...IEA: Gasoline Glut Could Cause Oil Price Rout
More confirmation of inventory overhang in gasoline.
Read more...The Bears Are Back – Oil Slides On Negative Sentiment
Oil prices have gone wobbly…
Read more...Patrick Cockburn: How Neoliberalism and Cold War Obsessions Fractured the Middle East
How neoliberalism, the resource curse, and military interventions by Washington and its allies, profoundly destabilized the Middle East.
Read more...Slavery At Sea: The Ugly Underbelly Of Oil Shipping
A Pulitzer-prize wining series last year exposed slavery in commercial fishing. Sadly, it is taking place in oil shipping too.
Read more...Debate: Is “Degrowth” the Way to Reduce Greenhouse Gases?
A debate on sustainable growth versus degrowth.
Read more...Portland Is a Sustainable Utopia—How It Happened
How Portland is working to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 80% and reduce its environmental load on other fronts.
Read more...Oil Speculators No Longer Confident In Price Crash
Even though the near-term fundamentals for oil are not promising, speculators are cutting bets that the bottom will fall out (again).
Read more...Clinton Chasing Votes With Fracking U-Turn
Clinton’s fracking reversal will alienate the energy industry without appeasing environmentalists, since fracking produces methane and earthquakes.
Read more...What OPEC Has To Fear From The New Saudi Oil Minister
Don’t expect any change in Saudi oil strategy any time soon.
Read more...Is Gasoline Demand the Biggest Red Herring In Oil Markets?
Gasoline demand distracts from the more important subject that there is no fundamental reason for the current oil-price rally.
Read more...The Real Reason Saudi Arabia Killed Doha
Who was Saudi Arabia really targeting when it scuttled the meeting of oil producing states in Doha?
Read more...Will the Upheaval in Fossil Fuel Industry Take the Rest of the Economy Down With It?
What are the broader implications of the tsuris in the fossil fuel industry?
Read more...Why Are Bankrupt Oil Companies Still Pumping?
How bankrupt oil companies are messing up the oil “recovery”.
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