Rakesh Upadhyay is a writer for US-based Divergente LLC consulting firm.
Analysts from New York-based investment bank Seaport Global Securities LLC, Barclays Plc., Morgan Stanley, Macquarie Capital Ltd. and Capital One Securities have recently downgraded a…
Natural gas prices are falling, and the speculators have cut their U.S. natural gas net long positions for the fourth straight week. Does this indicate…
Will the Canadian oil producers rake in higher prices for their crude oil if they sell to Asia? Is the U.S. unfairly discounting Canada’s heavy…
U.S. shale oil drillers have tactically used hedging to survive during the current oil crisis. Along with the technological advances, hedging has been one of…
Crude oil prices are slumping, and everyone is clamoring to know: how far can oil fall? Is this a buying opportunity, or is the selloff…
While the S&P 500 is up 6.49 percent, year to date (YTD), it has not brought any cheers to energy investors. Energy investors continue to…
The oil products that we use—such as gasoline, diesel, and heating oil—are all refined from crude oil. If the demand for these refined products increases,…
OPEC, which has far exceeded the average life of cartels, is on the brink of failure. Though cracks have been developing in the cartel since…
The U.S. is the world’s largest holder of emergency crude stockpiles, but now it’s selling off reserves, while China, the second-largest, is taking advantage of…
The OPEC deal is turning out to be a failure, but has it led the Saudi’s to abandon the deal? Have they cheated on their…
OPEC’s worries about the booming U.S. oil production have increased significantly with the big three oil companies’ interest in shale. Exxon Mobil Corp., Royal Dutch…
Damned if they do and damned if they don’t. This is OPEC’s precarious position after the recent fall in oil to below $50 per barrel.…
Though OPEC has managed to achieve a high standard of compliance, it has mostly been due to the oversized cut by the largest member of…
Two years ago, OPEC took steps to increase its market share. It continued with this same policy for two years by pumping oil in an…
What’s in store for oil this year? Experts at ABN Amro are forecasting a return to $30 levels unless OPEC extends its production cuts. Meanwhile,…
The U.S. dollar, along with a variety of other factors, used to be an important component in deciding the direction of oil prices. This was…
The U.S. shale oil recovery is now gaining momentum, and for the first time since September 2014, the U.S. oil and gas extraction and support…
From the multi-year slump of $1.611/MMBtu hit on 04 March 2016, to the highs of $3.902/MMBtu reached on December 28, 2016, natural gas prices have…
An eventful year for oil is coming to an end. During the year, crude oil sank to depths unseen since 2003, but recovered nicely to…
The Shale oil industry has revolutionized the oil markets, rendering the once powerful OPEC oil cartel powerless in dictating the price and production of oil.…