Investors can’t say definitively that the price of oil bottomed in the third week of March, but some very recent data  released by the International Energy Agency (IEA) that supports the premise that a bottom is in.  More on that in a moment. From a low near $43 per barrel...

You can read a lot on the breakeven price for oil right now.  I think a lot of what you read now is missing the point--because I think the breakeven price for oil isn't all about economics.  There's a human element to this (and every) trade. I think the breakeven...

Editor Keith Schaefer reviews America's increasing oil production, including the unconventional oil plays that have emerged across the U.S., thanks to the "Shale Revolution."

I’m going to run through a few seemingly unrelated facts here fairly quickly, but the message is: the North American energy market is so opaque right now—because fundamentals are changing so fast—that my #1 2015 credo—SMALL POSITIONS—still holds true.  And be prepared to change your mind in a hurry. This...

Although oil production is not new to Ohio, it is gaining more of a presence in the production that is stemming from the Utica shale.

Financial services firm Raymond James recently upgraded Petroquest Energy (PQ:NYSE) to OUTPERFORM from MARKET PERFORM based in part of the company's strong second quarter results.

Crescent Point’s Torquay Discovery Reignites Southeast Saskatchewan Just when you thought The Bakken couldn’t get any better—it does. Oil producers are now “cracking the code” on the Torquay, or Three Forks formation below the Bakken, and coming up with incredible economics—these wells are paying back in only seven months. This news has completely re-invigorated the Canadian side of the Bakken. And on the US side, the Three Forks is causing industry to leap-frog estimates...

Here is an energy issue I thought would have been resolved years ago--but it's going to court this week in Alberta.  The central question is simple--what takes priority if a producer goes bankrupt--environmental liabilities to plug & abandon (P&A) wells, or creditors. What's happening is that the Alberta Energy Regulator...