1. With fundamentals improving, analysts (via Forbes) pinpoint these three oil and gas companies to disappear in mergers:  RSP Permian Inc Callon Petroleum Co. Lilis Energy Inc  
      


  2. Energy Intelligence says sources from 01/10 say IPO may slip into 2019. But official word as late as yesterday says IPO still on track...


  3. T. Boone Pickens is closing his hedge fund and Andy Hall is apparently heading out of the business... Hedge funds have a key role...
      


  4. An Oklahoma oil and gas industry group is challenging a tax on new wells that would give teachers in the state a $4,000 pay...
      


  5. "Russia should start exiting a global deal to cut oil output if crude prices remain at $70 per barrel for more than six months,...


  6. is open house scheduled yet? Is the price negotiable? Why is 90 year old "single man" selling it? Too many questions on this one https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oil-tycoon-pickens-selling-texas-ranch-for-250-million/      


  7. T.M. vows to end all plastic waste by 2042. It includes "plastics-free" aisles in supermarkets and tax on takeout containers.  Is this realistic?


  8. Venezuela's oil exports to US drop 12% month on month as production falls.
      


  9. An oil project in Falklands Islands is on track to get the go-ahead by the end of this year as the companies involved in the...
      


  10. but, Nigeria Escravos gas pipeline is down after an explosion--scores missing. It really is staggering how much disarray Nigeria's energy industry is.
      


  11. After scores of reports bout he year's failed Arctic drilling campaign, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate expects a rosy future over the next five years....


  12. Rebels resumed pipeline attacks in Colombia hours after the ceasefire expired.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkZC7sqImaM


  13. Tighter EU regulations around futures trading has caused ICE to move almost 300 future contracts to the US away from EU.  In this global day...


  14. Saudi coalition says it thwarted an attack on an oil tanker by Houthi fighters. Never sure who to believe in all this mess.


  15. Not sure how many members are on board with that, but I think Iraq is probably gung ho for higher oil prices, what with...


  16. Not sure if anyone's been keeping up with Angola post Dos Santos era, but the new president is really going after the former ruling...
      


  17. EIA ups oil growth demand forecast for 2018 by 100,000 bpd. Prices reacting favorably to this and to the expectation that crude oil inventories...


  18. Just read that Libya's Ras Lanuf refinery, which can handle 200,000 bpd, could restart in the second half of this year, feeding the glut...
      


  19. In a letter to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, Maine's senators say the risks of environmental and economic damage outweigh any potential benefits. Last week, the...
      


  20. Protests in Iran, possibility of new sanctions or isolation of that country, are opening speculation about new jump of oil prices on market. But,...
      


  21. So, Exxon is planning to sue several California municipalities for making markedly different statements regarding the environmental risks they face in the lawsuits they filed...
      


  22. Pulau Bukom (Singapur)  is the largest wholly owned Shell refinery in the world in terms of crude distillation capacity. Seventeen men have been arrested...
      


  23. This is significant. They are funding just everything   http://www.france24.com/en/20171212-world-bank-stop-funding-oil-gas-projects-2019-climate
      


  24. Fracking firm Cuadrilla has been given the go-ahead to explore for oil near a West Sussex village that was the site of the UK’s biggest...
      


  25. The Central American nation of Belize, in a move to protect the largest barrier reef in the Western Hemisphere, has banned the offshore extraction...
      


  26. NNPC said that its Escravos-Lagos is back up and functioning again after explosion last week.  Still unclear whether the power plants are up yet.  


  27. New study released today shows oil and gas drilling causes birds..  even hardy species, to have fewer chicks.


  28. Per Bloomberg: Oil supertankers are the 'biggest victims' of the OPEC cuts deal. Cargoes from the Middle East to Asia are down, and supertankers...
      


  29. Big money movers are circling over the Aramco IPO, even if it is slow to start. Reports say Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Deutsche Bank...
      


  30. Vietnam is trying dozens of executives from its state-owned energy firm for losses incurred. Penalties on the table include death penalty. HARSHEST OF HARSH!