ThinkstockA 30-inch natural gas pipeline owned by Energy Transfer Partners LP (NYSE: ETP) exploded in rural Missouri shortly before midnight on Thursday, the second gas pipeline explosion in as many weeks. The…
Paul Ausick Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LPKinder Morgan Canada, a division of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP, (NYSE: KMP), is preparing to file a formal application with the Canadian government to nearly triple the…
As the stock market is challenging all-time highs around a holiday week, investors have to be considering how to position their portfolios and assets for 2014 and beyond. 24/7 Wall St. has…
ThinkstockWith crude oil prices trending generally downward and projected to continue that trend at least into the first half of next year, the country’s largest oil and gas companies have got to…
ThinkstockMany Wall Street analysts and strategists are forecasting a rise in corporate earnings for the rest of the year and throughout 2014. That is music to the ears of stock investors. Rising…
ThinkstockTwo recent well-respected and long-running oil industry publications have proclaimed that booming production in North America, particularly in the U.S. shale fields, will hit a plateau as early as 2016 and that…
Wikimedia CommonsExxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM) has not been much of a great stock market participant for such a strong bull market. Its gains coming into Monday have only been 10% so…
ThinkstockThe UBS proprietary institutional flow data indicates that hedge funds are increasing exposure to financials and decreasing exposure to health care. Given that health care has outperformed significantly year to date, hedge…
courtesy of Chevron Corp.Chevron Corp. (NYSE: CVX) reported third-quarter 2013 results before markets opened Friday morning. The oil and gas supermajor posted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $2.57 on revenues of…
Paul Ausick ThinkstockOil industry data and publishing firm Platts announced on Tuesday its annual list of the top 250 global energy companies. This marks the twelfth year that Platts has compiled its listing. The…
courtesy of BP plcThe Deepwater Horizon explosion that resulted in a historically large oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico began on April 20, 2010. BP PLC (NYSE: BP), which operated the…
Jon OggEarnings season is in full swing and this coming week will bring many key earnings reports. This will also be the last week of major on-calendar earnings for the third quarter,…
ThinkstockThe big North American integrated oil and major oil-producing stocks will begin to release their quarterly results on October 24. The research team at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) are…
ThinkstockIt was only a matter of time. In the wake of the 1973 OPEC oil embargo, the U.S. enacted a law in 1975 that prohibits (with minor exceptions) exporting U.S. crude oil.…
ThinkstockThe Permian Basin in West Texas is truly a story of the Phoenix rising from the ashes. Since its discovery, the oil-rich region has had its ups and downs, with activity sloping…
