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. Oil, gas rigs up 11 this week, +12 for oil, and -1  for gas. Most notably, Permian added 18 rigs this week. Not good news...


  3. Iraq’s Oil Minister Thamer Ghadhban said on Tuesday that the shortfall in oil supply caused by new U.S. sanctions on Iran had yet to...
      


  4. 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...
      


  5. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-11/trump-is-said-to-open-door-for-oil-drilling-off-u-s-east-coast


  6. Many see the US as mostly apathetic to the plight of the renewable energy industry. 


  7. Russian pension funds are considering investments in Aramco, and so are Chinese companies. Won't that be the best shareholder lineup EVER?
      


  8. Highly watched rig count comes out tomorrow at 1pm EST. 
      


  9. The brazen attack on the Israel-connected tanker near Oman coast has the potential to open up a new conflict in addition to the catalogue...
      


  10. U.S. energy consumption, production, and exports reach record highs in 2018 The United States produced a record amount of energy from various sources in 2018,...
      


  11. Mass Offshore Oil-Servicer Busts Imperil $30 Billion of Debt       Bloomberg) -- Offshore oil servicers are going bust at the fastest pace in three years as...
      


  12. Will they or won't they? http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2018/02/01/trans-mountain-pipeline-is-going-to-get-built-despite-b-c-s-attempts-trudeau-says_a_23350383/  


  13.  Statoil, the Norwegian state oil giant will invest $6 billions in development of Arctic oil projects. Name of oil field is Castberg and it's...


  14. OPEC+ Gambles US Shale's Golden Age Is Done     (Bloomberg) -- For years, OPEC ignored the rise of the U.S. shale industry and came to regret...
      


  15. Canada’s Enbridge is asking oil shippers to sign at least eight-year contracts to move crude on its Mainline pipeline network, as it proposes to...
      


  16. Oil price that has been rising for the past few weeks, judging by the above chart, shows signs of becoming static – finally. Neither the...
      


  17.   Reuters : Sinopec, CNPC skip Iran oil purchases for May to avoid U.S. sanctions China Petrochemical Corp (Sinopec Group) and China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), the...


  18. Amin Nasser, Saudi Aramco Chief Executive Officer, says the global oil and gas industry needs to invest more than $20 trillion over the next...
      


  19. 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.  


  20. https://www.ft.com/content/bd8187d8-db64-11e7-a039-c64b1c09b482


  21. Anyone know anything about this? Iranian news agency says they're not giving French Total the South Pars oil development now ... but the explanation...
      


  22. China's tariffs into effect today. World didn't stop turning as far as I can tell. Per Houston Chronicle, "Last year the United States exported 832,000...


  23. I expect US drillers to now increase their drilling budgets nicely for Q1/2 2018. Makes sense if they scaled back drilling budgets when prices...
      


  24. Very interesting article from safehaven.com on the correlation between gold and oil prices. I encourage everyone to read it and would love to hear...
      


  25. https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2017/12/06/appalachian-basin-produces-more-natural-gas-than-any-opec-country/#e1fc81344c50
      


  26. Karma has come home to roost for PDVSA, and for Venezuela's seizure-happy Socialist government.  What goes around, comes around. Turnabout is fair play. Here's an Oil...
      


  27. US navy increased its Mediterranean fleet, in anticipation of Exxon sending its survey vessels there in a couple weeks. Makes sense, since Turkish Navy...


  28. This article contains still images from the interactive dashboards available in the original blog post. To follow the instructions in this article, please use...
      


  29. https://newsroom.porsche.com/en/2022/company/porsche-highly-innovative-fuels-hif-opening-efuels-pilot-plant-haru-oni-chile-synthetic-fuels-30732.html CO2 and water converted to gasoline using wind power.


  30. The bulls might be on center stage right now, but really, the oil price predictions are fraught with wild variations. Saxo Bank is now...