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Why China Is Driving Short-Term Oil Prices But OPEC Still Holds the Lever
For most of the past decade, oil markets have treated decisions by OPEC as the primary signal for price direction. That hierarchy is being tested, but not overturned. What has changed is where traders look for short-term cues. Increasingly, those cues…
The Storage Solutions Your Battery Hasn’t Heard About (but should)
When we talk about energy storage today, lithium-ion batteries tend to dominate the conversation. They are sleek, compact, and have become the default image of the clean energy revolution. Yet behind the headlines, a quieter cast of characters has bee…
A Big End to the Year for BP
BP is closing out the year with a flurry of moves that underline a decisive shift in strategy, marked by major portfolio changes, a leadership transition, and continued momentum in upstream project delivery.The company has agreed to sell a majority st…
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The $6 Billion Pipeline Problem No One Is Talking About
The midstream sector is currently undergoing a quiet, expensive transformation. We are moving from the era of "dig it up and see" to a regime of permanent, high-fidelity surveillance.According to a new report, the oil and gas non-destructive…
Oil Prices Rise as the U.S. Escalates Its Tanker Crackdown Off Venezuela
Oil prices climbed in early Asian trading on Monday as markets reacted to the U.S. intensifying its targeting of oil tankers off the coast of Venezuela, including the seizure of a second oil tanker and the pursuit of a third.At the time of writing, We…
Oil Executives Brace For Another Tough Year Ahead
The oil markets are looking to finish the year on the back foot, with oil prices falling again amid expectations of a supply glut and Russia-Ukraine peace talks reviving. Nearly half of oil executives in the Dallas Fed’s latest survey have reported t…
Big Oil Shuns Mexico as Pemex’s Struggles Continue
Mexico’s state oil giant Pemex is struggling to reverse a years-long decline in oil and gas production while trying not to incur additional liabilities on top of its already massive pile of $100 billion debt that makes it the world’s most indebted e…
Large Critical Minerals Deposit Discovered In Utah
A Utah company has unearthed a massive deposit of critical minerals, describing it as potentially “one of North America’s most significant” finds to date. According to Ionic Minerals Technology, assays from its Silicon Ridge project in Utah have co…
U.S. Shale Turns From Drilling Faster to Recovering More Oil
It has been an eventful year for U.S. shale oil and gas. Low prices—at least in oil—a double down on capital discipline, and drilling efficiency gains that pushed the U.S. total to a record high again were the hallmarks of 2025. The next frontier? …
Fermi Tanks 50% Amid Shock Exit of First Texas Data Center Customer
Fermi America announced their first potential tenant for the Project Matador data center campus terminated their $150 million Advance in Aid of Construction agreement (i.e., lease). The stock has plunged as much as 50% in premarket trading in what is …
Seizing Venezuelan Oil May Cost Washington More Than Caracas
On Wednesday, the United States carried out one of its most consequential maritime interventions to date. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, Homeland Security Investigations, and the United States Coast Guard, acting with support from the Department…
America’s LNG Boom Is About to Spike Your Power Bill
The US is the world’s largest exporter of LNG. And efforts are apace to further increase that export capacity. As the US exports LNG at an increasing rate, this implies good news and bad news. The good news is that gas producers and owners of gas liq…
A Conflict is Brewing Between Big Tech and American Farmers
For farmers in the United States, concerns about too much clean energy production are quickly transforming into concerns about too little energy to go around. For years, rural America has been pushing back against the spread of utility-scale solar and…
Why Oil Prices are Set to Fall Below $60 Next Year
Oil prices are set to average below $60 per barrel next year, investment banks have said in their latest forecasts in recent weeks. In 2026, both Brent Crude and WTI Crude are expected to slip from current levels of $63 per barrel and $60 a barrel, re…