The Origins of Peak Oil AwarenessThe scientific study of peak oil began in the 1950′s, when Shell geophysicist M. King Hubbert reported on the evolution…
Déjà vu As the price of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) retests the $40 per barrel (bbl) mark, some pundits are again calling for WTI to…
Last December the Energy Information Administration (EIA) released its latest estimate of U.S. Crude Oil and Natural Gas Proved Reserves. Although natural gas reserves rose,…
According to the recently-released BP (NYSE: BP) Statistical Review of World Energy 2014, the U.S. was the world’s largest and most diverse energy producer in…
The OPEC Free FallThere is a popular narrative going around that I want to address in today’s article. Last November, after several months of plummeting…
Last week the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released its Annual Energy Outlook 2015 (AEO2015). The report presents updated projections for U.S. energy markets through 2040…
Despite the popular narrative that we keep hearing, the U.S is not running out of crude oil storage. Yet there are those who are predicting…
I will preface this article with my standard disclaimer on the Keystone XL Pipeline project: I have no vested interest in the pipeline either way.…
Africa’s most populous country will head to the polls on March 28th in the closest elections in Nigeria’s short democratic history. While security has dominated…
By now you have probably heard that a CSX (NYSE: CSX) train carrying Bakken crude from North Dakota’s shale oil fields derailed and caught fire.…
When I made my energy predictions for 2015, I made some very aggressive predictions. Perhaps the most aggressive was that the closing price of West…
In the past few weeks I have received numerous questions about the role of a “drop in demand” in the oil price decline. These questions…
The Rotating Roles of Accused and AccuserIt never fails during election season that when gasoline prices are falling, the party out of power and media…
A Lesson LearnedIf there’s one thing billionaire venture capitalist Vinod Khosla has learned over the past decade, it’s that the oil companies aren’t as stupid…
Introduction to the GSRToday I want to take a deep look at the global biofuels picture, drawing mainly from the Renewables 2014 Global Status Report…
Today I want to provide an update on the natural gas picture, as prices declined sharply at the end of July. I have laid out…
This is the 2nd installment in a series that examines data from the recently released Statistical Review of World Energy 2014. The previous post –…
Last month BP (NYSE: BP) released the Statistical Review of World Energy 2014. This report is one of the most comprehensive sources of global and…
How Much Oil Do We Import?As events in Iraq continue to unfold, we have been getting quite a few queries on just how much oil…
Every morning after I wake up, I have a routine. The first thing I do, regardless of how sleepy I might still be, is slip…