If you were on the hunt for the next big horizontal oil play in the U.S., where would you be inclined to look? Texas?  That makes sense; Texas is the top oil producing state in the country. California?  That also makes sense, California has been a top oil producing state for...

By guest contributor Jen Alic Jen Alic is a geopolitical analyst and consultant based in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and the former editor-in-chief of the Zurich-based ISN Security Watch. -------------------------------- Albania’s Albpetrol Goes to Highest Bidder in Geopolitical End Game Shareholders in Canadian-owned Bankers Petroleum (BNK-TSX) have profited from two huge runs in the stock since they...

Fracking has helped the United States maintain the world's number one economy, but the exploitation of unconventional gas is also catching the eye of the world's second largest economy: China.

Junior oil and gas company Crown Point Ventures Ltd. (CWV:TSXV) recently announced its plans to drill between 10 and 24 wells in San Jorge Basin in the next 24 months and two to four wells in the Neuquén Basin.

Domestic production of oil in the United States increased at the fastest rate of any country between 2008 and 2010, and grew much more quickly than the country's closest competitor, Russia.

The North American oil market is going through a fundamental change that will affect the price of oil for the rest of this decade—fast-rising shale oil supplies from North Dakota and Texas. (Other shale oil plays will contribute as well, but none will come close to the revolution happening in...

By Donald Dony, Editor www.technicalspeculator.com Energy sector swings to performance As the bull market starts its 6th year and the 3rd longest advance since 1920, we see several signals that are common to the later phase of a mature market. The first is the relative performance shift out typical bull market sectors...

I'm off to Dubai for a week of meetings, but I want to leave you with some ideas that should leave you...questioning...The Bear Case on oil. I want to be clear...I'm not a perma-bull on oil.  Far from it.  I'm an investor, and a trader, looking for a trend.  Energy...