It’s clear from comments on Q2 conference calls in the last week that North American producers ARE getting more efficient—lowering costs—in producing tight oil, or shale oil. And they don’t think they’ve hit their limits yet.
The high tech reason for these improvements? Simple sand. It is stunning to me...
Lithium is the hottest commodity in global energy, and there’s a race on to develop the next greenfield lithium mine (greenfield=from scratch).
Lithium X (LIX-TSXv; LIXXF-OTCBB)) took a big step to being The Next Big Lithium Producer with a deal last week to get a pilot plant operating at their Sal...
Commodity’ is now a four letter word.
Metal prices have collapsed. Oil is plummeting. Natural gas and coal are struggling, and iron ore is on death’s door.
But right now, there is one commodity that everyone agrees will rise in price this year.
The Big Banks are piling into the idea. Analyst...
Is This “Biggest Factor” Silently Charging Up The U.S. Natural Gas Market?
Mexican natural gas imports from the US will keep increasing through 2016 and 2017, to the point where Mexican demand could be 9% of US production with two years, up from the current 3.5%.
The chart below shows the...
The Coming Energy Infrastructure Overcapacity Glut
October 1, 2015
By: Bill Powers
When free money is thrown at any part of the energy industry for a long enough length of time, the natural boom bust cycle can be taken to extremes and massive distortions can develop.
Due to unprecedented access to all forms...
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But recently I came across a situation so profitable and so pressing…
I did 2 things right away.
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Is the energy sector under-reporting oil demand? Some recent research suggests that's possible—potentially by a lot—as in 1.2 million barrels of oil per day (bopd).
For oil bulls, that's not enough right now to sway oil prices. But it could mean the market is tighter than everyone thinks.
And that wouldn’t...
Logistics are a bigger piece of the energy pie than ever before—especially rail. Most energy investors are familiar now with the huge rise in crude-by-rail; getting Canadian and Bakken crude to the east and west coast refineries in the United States.
It saved the profit margins for many oil producers,...