Drumbeat: April 28, 2012
For Egypt, gas deal with Israel was bad business
CAIRO, Egypt — While much of the world sees Egypt’s decision to cancel a natural gas contract with Israel as a threat to peace, Egyptians say it just makes good business sense.
Last week, Egypt’s ...
Drumbeat: April 27, 2012
White House Promotes a Bioeconomy
The Obama administration is expected to announce a broad plan on Thursday to foster development of the nation’s “bioeconomy,” including the use of renewable resources and biological manufacturing methods.
The Na...
Drumbeat: April 25, 2012
Saudi Arabia Builds Up Crude Inventories: Goldman
Saudi Arabia appears to have been building crude oil inventories in lower domestic demand months in a scramble to offset the risks of “limited” effective spare production capacity, Goldman Sachs sai...
Drumbeat: April 25, 2012
Saudi Arabia Builds Up Crude Inventories: Goldman
Saudi Arabia appears to have been building crude oil inventories in lower domestic demand months in a scramble to offset the risks of “limited” effective spare production capacity, Goldman Sachs sai...
Drumbeat: April 25, 2012
Saudi Arabia Builds Up Crude Inventories: Goldman
Saudi Arabia appears to have been building crude oil inventories in lower domestic demand months in a scramble to offset the risks of “limited” effective spare production capacity, Goldman Sachs sai...
Drumbeat: April 23, 2012
Rethinking peak oil
In recent years, Chinese scholars have been embracing “peak oil” theory in increasing numbers. The idea – first put forward by American geophysicist MK Hubbert in 1949 – is that individual oil fields, oil-producing regions a...
Drumbeat: April 21, 2012
High oil prices threatened by ... high oil prices
The fivefold increase in oil prices over the past decade has created boom times in Alberta, in North Dakota and in crude-producing regions across the globe, but the era of $100-a-barrel oil may be sowin...
Drumbeat: April 20, 2012
Feeling peaky: The economic impact of high oil prices
AS THE developed-world economy tries to gain momentum, it faces a persistent headwind. The oil price remains stubbornly over $100 a barrel, acting like a tax on Western consumers. Some blame the hig...
Drumbeat: April 18, 2012
The cost of new oil supply
As the cheap oil from old mature fields is depleted, and we replace it with expensive new oil from unconventional sources, it forces the overall price of oil up. This is because oil prices are set at the margin, as are the pr...
Drumbeat: April 16, 2012
6 Scary Extreme Energy Sources Being Tapped to Fuel the Post Peak Oil Economy
In a few short years the term “fracking” went from obscurity, mostly mistaken for an obscenity, to a household word, now often associated with flammable tap water. The te...
Drumbeat: April 14, 2012
Oil and coal-backed groups far outpace Obama, allies on energy ads
WASHINGTON -- Energy has become a touchstone issue in the presidential race, and groups backed by oil and coal dollars have spent far more money on ads bashing the president’s record...
Drumbeat: April 13, 2012
How OPEC clouds the issue of oil production
How much oil does OPEC produce? It is a simple question, but the answer has been complicated after the cartel started this month to publish two different sets of data.
According to its monthly oil market rep...
