Is America Reeling From a Natural Gas Glut?
Mild weather is not good for natural gas prices; on Wednesday, natural gas futures dropped for a fourth consecutive day based on forecasts for cooler temperatures that would reduce demand for...
View ArticleU.S. Natural Gas Surplus: To Export or Not To Export?
Campaign promises are one thing to make, but quite another to fulfill. That the promises were insincere, made simply to win the election, is one way to explain why a president’s pledges failed to...
View ArticleEIA Shows Declining Imports, OPEC to Lose Market Share
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is learning a hard lesson about what increased energy production from the U.S. means for the world. It released its first set of forecasts for 2014,...
View ArticleIs ConocoPhillips an Attractive Stock?
Source: Getty Images Most investors turn to Exxon Mobile (NYSE:XOM), Chevron (NYSE:CVX), or even Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE:RDS.A) when they are considering a large oil company for their portfolios....
View ArticleWill Legal Costs Drain Fracking Companies?
Source: Wikipedia Commons For a long time now, there have been various reports that hydraulic fracking—a technique used in the extraction of oil and gas from shale rock that has grown immensely in...
View ArticleIs America Reeling From a Natural Gas Glut?
Mild weather is not good for natural gas prices; on Wednesday, natural gas futures dropped for a fourth consecutive day based on forecasts for cooler temperatures that would reduce demand for...
View ArticleU.S. Natural Gas Surplus: To Export or Not To Export?
Campaign promises are one thing to make, but quite another to fulfill. That the promises were insincere, made simply to win the election, is one way to explain why a president’s pledges failed to...
View ArticleEIA Shows Declining Imports, OPEC to Lose Market Share
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is learning a hard lesson about what increased energy production from the U.S. means for the world. It released its first set of forecasts for 2014,...
View ArticleWal-Mart Goes After Chinese Market, Disney Survives the Lone Ranger: Morning...
Markets showed concern about the end of quantitative easing Wednesday morning, as futures for all three major indexes were down. With stronger economic data coming out, including a hot housing market...
View ArticleExxon Mobil Faces Criminal Charges That Concern the Fracking Industry
Three years ago, Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM) acquired natural-gas producer XTO Energy for $34.9 billion, largely to take advantage of the company’s hydraulic-fracturing expertise. The purchase was the...
View ArticleFracking at Home and Abroad: Arrest and Progress
The U.S. has successfully exported industries of all shapes and sizes abroad. From Levi’s jeans to McDonald’s — an industry that could change consumers’ shapes and sizes. Because of this wide...
View ArticleBP Separates Continental U.S. Business to Focus on Recovery
The mark the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster left on BP’s (NYSE:BP) financial health and public image has been an indelible one in the intervening years. The Gulf of Mexico disaster was the worst...
View ArticleBP Is Back in the Gulf of Mexico Drilling Game With Auction Success
Source: Thinkstock Analysts deem the Environment Protection Agency settlement an important milestone in BP’s (NYSE:BP) nearly four-year long mission to recover from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil...
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