Many investors study supply and demand statistics to figure out where they think the oil price is going.
But by far, the biggest factor that determines the oil price is the US dollar, says Donald Dony, who pens The Technical Speculator investment newsletter.
“The US dollar is absolutely pivotal for commodity...
Oil producers in Alberta have embraced the holy rail, shipping out by train car an estimated 120,000 barrels of oil per day (bopd) to refiners on the east coast and the U.S. Gulf.
Despite rail costs doubling pipeline tariffs, producers were able to get such a better price railing it...
The energy sector is such a typical American-Canadian contrast. It's like the Americans love to shoot guns, and the Canadians love to dodge bullets.
In the USA, the Shale Revolution has turned the American energy industry upside down with huge new supplies of natural gas and light oil.
They have reversed...
Can shale oil and gas carry the U.S. to energy independence?
The short answer is no, says Credit Suisse (CS) in a September 7 report, but North America as a whole could be energy self-sufficient.
CS hangs their thesis on 4 key pegs:
1. Flow rates from oil wells about 25% higher than now,...
North American drivers are now competing with global drivers — and global industry — for cheap American crude.
I went on FOX National Business News to explain why that is (click the link at the end to watch the interview.)
For starters, keep in mind that driving gasoline is 50% higher...
Editor's Note: Everyone, it seems, is talking about the Keystone pipeline. Recently I wrote a story on a mostly unexplored topic in the U.S gas price debate – a problem that could soon affect oil refineries and the price consumers pay for gas on America's east and west coasts....
For the first time since 1949, the United States is poised to become a net exporter of petroleum products, according to the Petroleum Supply Monthly report for November put out by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Through the first nine months of 2011, the U.S. exported 753.4 million barrels of...
This chart is bullish for oil. It shows the number of non-commercial net long crude oil positions in the NYMEX (New York Mercantile Exchange) is moving down – these are the people we all call "The Speculators". Getting these (politically unpopular) people out of the oil market is what...
