A federal judge in Wyoming made permanent a temporary block of an Interior Department rule setting stricter standards for hydraulic fracturing on public lands, a blow to President Barack Obama’s Continue Reading
“Peak oil demand” has become a fashionable concept among climate campaigners but the evidence suggests oil consumption is growing at the fastest rate for a decade and shows no sign Continue Reading
Are today’s spending cuts setting the global oil market up for a supply crunch in a few years? An oil supply deficit may be hard to fathom given two years Continue Reading
The number of rigs actively working on the shale basins of North Dakota was unchanged from last week despite a major late-week rally in oil prices, data show. Data show Continue Reading
U.S. oil major Marathon said Monday it spent $888 million to acquire a rival that has a strong portfolio in the shale oil basins of Oklahoma. Marathon Oil Corp. signed Continue Reading
“Like an oil lease, you’re easily disposable,” the villainous J.R. Ewing quipped to his beauty queen wife in the 1970s television series Dallas . Readers of the latest edition of Continue Reading
The world’s private equity funds, with a cash pile of around $1 trillion, are stepping up their interest in the oil and gas industry, with almost a half expecting to Continue Reading
Oil and gas producer Marathon Oil Corp’s plans to buy a small Oklahoma producer is the latest signal U.S. shale companies are pouncing on properties in the state’s high margin Continue Reading
World Energy 2016-2050: Annual Report “Political Economist” June 2016 The purpose of this annual report is to provide an analytical framework evaluating the development of world energy supply and its Continue Reading
1. Introduction Peak Oil is the moment in time when, on a global scale, the maximum rate of oil production is reached. The moment after which oil production, by nature, Continue Reading
