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The growth has made the U.S. the world’s largest oil producer — pumping almost 50% more crude each day than Saudi Arabia. It’s “been good for the American consumer and good for national security,” said John Podesta, the senior adviser to the president for international climate policy. View the full article
Oil and gas employment has remained fairly flat in 2021 as companies have focused on reducing debt, repaying investors and focusing on research and development instead of boosting production. Employment in the sector is down 13.8% since the onset of the pandemic in March 2020. View the full article
In June 2024, the U.S. oil field services sector experienced an increase in job gains, with a gain of 968 jobs. In total, the energy services sector currently supports 647,636 jobs across the United States. For the first time in 2024, employment growth outpaced 2023’s growth by almost 450 jobs. View the full article
Despite signals indicating the job market is beginning to flatten, the oil field services sector remains a vital component of the national economy, showcasing resilience amid broader economic fluctuations. While the national economy added a better-than-expected 272,000 jobs in May, the unemployment rate experienced a slight increase to 4%. View the full article
U.S. oil and gas producers recovered and reset in 2021, posting increased profits of $73.7 billion and $211.9 billion in revenues, according to the EY U.S. oil and gas reserves, production and ESG benchmarking study. View the full article
About 95% of Gulf of Mexico oil production, and 94% of gas output had been shut-in as of Monday, according to the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement. View the full article
Natural gas futures soared as forecasts for chilly November weather in the U.S. East heightened concern that supplies will struggle to meet demand this winter. View the full article
U.S. natural gas futures plunged to the lowest since July as the weather forecast for the new year shifted milder and record-high prices in Europe plunged. View the full article
U.S. natural gas futures climbed after winter stockpiles of the furnace and power-plant fuel expanded less than expected, heightening concerns about adequate supplies going into the peak-demand season. View the full article
American consumers can expect a small break in gasoline prices from President Joe Biden’s decision to tap the nation’s oil reserves, though the move risks falling short for voters already bristling at his handling of the highest rate of inflation in decades. View the full article
As global natural gas markets continue to tighten and Europe braces for a challenging winter, the American Petroleum Institute and the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers released a new analysis of Europe’s natural gas market and highlighted the immense potential of U.S. LNG to help Europe strengthen its energy security. View the full article
As global natural gas markets continue to tighten and Europe braces for a challenging winter, the American Petroleum Institute and the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers released a new analysis of Europe’s natural gas market and highlighted the immense potential of U.S. LNG to help Europe strengthen its energy security. View the full article
U.S. LNG developers seeking to burnish their green credentials and boost their competitiveness on a crowded global stage are touting a costly and largely untested technology: carbon capture. View the full article
The Study, commissioned by NACEF and PAGE, and conducted by ICF, “Lifecycle GHG Emissions of U.S. LNG Exports: Concepts, Methodologies, Data and Results,” shows that U.S. LNG exports are likely to have represented a net reduction in the world’s GHG emissions compared to the mix of alternative fuels that would have likely substituted for the LNG exports had they hypothetically not existed in 2022. View the full article
Cold-stricken Europe is drawing a flotilla of U.S. liquefied natural gas cargoes amid an energy crisis that has sent gas prices to record levels. View the full article
The U.S. is likely to ask OPEC member states to pump more crude to help ease a surge in energy prices, according to oil historian Daniel Yergin. View the full article
Executives from Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Royal Dutch Shell and BP were urged by U.S. lawmakers to abandon the leading oil-industry trade group and cut off funds to any groups sowing doubts about climate science. View the full article
Executives from Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Royal Dutch Shell and BP were urged by U.S. lawmakers to abandon the leading oil-industry trade group, and cut off funds to any groups sowing doubts about climate science. View the full article
The Biden administration’s decision to allow the line to keep operating is a victory for pipeline owner Energy Transfer LP and drillers such as Continental Resources Inc. that use it transport crude from North Dakota’s Bakken oil field. View the full article
The White House pledged to discuss a key pipeline that carries Canadian crude through Michigan with the northern neighbor, stressing the U.S. isn’t considering a shutdown of the conduit the state’s governor wants shuttered. View the full article
Six weeks after a federal judge ordered the Biden administration to resume selling oil and gas leases on federal land, there’s no sign it has and Interior Secretary Deb Haaland struggled Tuesday to explain why. View the full article
Six weeks after a federal judge ordered the Biden administration to resume selling oil and gas leases on federal land, there’s no sign it has, and Interior Secretary Deb Haaland struggled Tuesday to explain why. View the full article
One day after the U.S. energy secretary phoned Saudi Arabia on the "importance of affordable and reliable energy for consumers," Interior Secretary Deb Haaland called the domestic fossil fuel industry "fundamentally broken," suggesting that Biden's oil and gas leasing moratorium will be anything but temporary. View the full article
The U.S. didn’t import any Saudi crude last week for the first time in 35 years, a reversal from just months ago when the Kingdom threatened to upend the American energy industry by unleashing a tsunami of exports into a market decimated by the pandemic. View the full article
Oil producers in the Permian Basin must do more to disclose and stop the leak of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, a House committee wrote in a letter to 10 major oil companies. View the full article
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About this blog
I started this blog to express what I sense about the highs and lows of the oil realm, while cautiously analysing historical data, taking into account the geo-political development at the time of recording them.
I got into this field, having been a passive observer of fluctuations of crude oil prices and their global consequences for years.
Then, when on the day of Great Oil Crash in April, 2020, I made a decision to make my own blog, with the motto, ‘analysing data that really matters’.
Having come from an academic background in mathematics and physics, I analyse data using my own tools, created with JavaScript and Python, taking my decision on board while making decisions.
