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• Mysterious Oil & Gas Worker Deaths Across America

  Published 24 April 2015 | viewed 10,784 times

  In July of 2012, the mother of 21-year old Dustin Bergsing filed a wrongful-death suit in Yellowstone County District Court. Bergsing died on January 7…

• Total U.S. Rig Count Drop Over 50%

  Published 17 April 2015 | viewed 7,058 times

  Rig counts fell for a record 19th week in a row. Total rigs dropped 34 to 954 and oil rigs dropped 26 to 374. This…

• Did China’s ‘Warren Buffett’ Rig His Own Stocks?

  Published 06 April 2015 | viewed 5,484 times

  With 30% of the 'money' in Chinese stocks officially 'dumb money' and leverage of epic proportions, it is hardly surprising that the wealthiest of wealthy…

• Creditors Pulling The Rug From Under U.S. Shale Sector

  Published 03 April 2015 | viewed 17,299 times

  Back in early 2007, just as the first signs of the bursting housing and credit bubble were becoming visible, one of the primary harbingers of…

• Crude Oil Chokepoints And Why Yemen Matters

  Published 27 March 2015 | viewed 9,141 times

  About half the world's oil production is moved by tankers on fixed maritime routes, according to Reuters. The blockage of a chokepoint, even temporarily, can…

• The Hunt For Fukushima’s Missing Reactor Fuel

  Published 25 March 2015 | viewed 10,614 times

  In the same week as Japan unveils its Pacific-Rim-esque anti-tsunami wall public works project, and Japanese government auditors say the operator of the Fukushima Dai-ichi…

• Norway Investing Oil Wealth In Foreign Real Estate

  Published 24 March 2015 | viewed 6,437 times

  Norway is stuck between a rock and a hard place. Last week, the Norges Bank defied market expectations by leaving rates unchanged citing an overheating…

• Whiting Forced To Issue Massive Secondary

  Published 24 March 2015 | viewed 5,102 times

  Having been exuberantly chased briefly after announcing it was looking for a buyer - fueling further excitement about a low-oil-price-driven Shale firm M&A boom -…

• Oil Prices Could Crash Hard This Summer

  Published 23 March 2015 | viewed 10,471 times

  Less than two weeks ago we warned that based on the current oil production trend, the US may run out of storage for crude as…

• Oil Price Crash Creates New Wild West In Shale Boom Towns

  Published 12 March 2015 | viewed 16,966 times

  With crude prices reeling from the effects of geopolitical wrangling and surging production, it’s a tough time to be a resident of an oil boom…

• Saudi King Promises To Protect Against Oil Price Slump

  Published 11 March 2015 | viewed 8,285 times

  In what some note could be a pre-emptive strike against rising social tensions in The Kingdom, new (and potentially crazy) King Salman bin Abdulaziz vowed…

• ISIS Burn Iraqi Oil Fields To Hold Off Iraqi Offensive

  Published 06 March 2015 | viewed 20,669 times

  Thick black smoke billowing from oil wells northeast of the city of Tikrit is obstructing Shi'ite militiamen and Iraqi soldiers attempts to drive ISIS from…

• Crude Down Following Biggest Weekly Inventory Rise In 14 Years

  Published 04 March 2015 | viewed 6,799 times

  So much for last night's lower than expected API build, DOE data shows a massive build compared to the 3.95 mm barrels expected: • *CRUDE…

• Oil Prices Tumble As Pace Of Rig Count Decline Slows

  Published 27 February 2015 | viewed 10,019 times

  With production and inventories at record levels despite the total collapse in rig counts, all eyes remain on Baker Hughes data for any signal the…

• Oil Markets Jumped The Gun

  Published 23 February 2015 | viewed 7,975 times

  Perhaps the world is beginning to realize that "it's the demand, stupid" as crude oil prices are collapsing this morning (not helped by "all out…

• EIA Inventory Announcement Scuppers Oil Rally Hopes

  Published 19 February 2015 | viewed 10,499 times

  Between European uncertainty and last night's massive API inventory build (14.3mm barrels), Brent and WTI crude was sliding into today's inventory data - well off…

• As Rig Count continues To Fall, Production Soars To Record Highs

  Published 13 February 2015 | viewed 9,384 times

  Despite the dramatic plunge in rig counts, this week saw yet another surge in production to record highs and with storage levels getting close to…

• After Saudi Arabia Crushes US Shale Who Will It Go After Next?

  Published 09 February 2015 | viewed 17,063 times

  Whether it is to cripple the will of Putin and end his support of the Syria regime (thus handing the much desired gas-pipeline traversing territory…

• When Conspiracy Theory Becomes Fact

  Published 04 February 2015 | viewed 17,991 times

  While the markets are still debating whether the price of oil is more impacted by the excess pumping of crude here, or the lack of…

• Exxon Unveils The Bad News On All Fronts

  Published 02 February 2015 | viewed 9,673 times

  Earlier today, following our chart showing the devastation in Q1 earning forecasts, Exxon Mobil came out with its Q4 earnings, and - as tends to…