ThinkstockThe U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released its weekly petroleum status report this morning. U.S. commercial crude inventories increased by 2.7 million barrels last week, bringing the total U.S. commercial crude inventory to 388.6…
ThinkstockBP PLC (NYSE: BP) must like shale, gas and oil exploration and production better than new age energy sources. It wants to dump its wind operations in the United States. According to Reuters: BP…
ThinkstockOne of the transportation methods commonly offered as an alternative to crude oil and refined product pipelines is rail transport. Last weekend’s 10,000 gallon rupture in an Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM) pipeline in…
ThinkstockOnce given up for dead as an overproduced and underutilized commodity, natural gas has risen from the ashes with a vengeance. A combination of a much colder winter than last year, less exploration and…
ThinkstockThe battle for what was once the integrated oil & gas company Hess Corp. (NYSE: HES) took another turn this morning after the company said it has signed a deal to sell its 90%…
courtesy Chesapeake Energy Corp.Aubrey McClendon, co-founder, chairman and CEO of Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK), is officially the former CEO of the company today. Last Friday the company’s board of directors named long-time Chesapeake…
thinkstockThe U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) today reported the U.S. natural gas stocks declined by 95 billion cubic feet last week, slightly less than the decline of 83 billion to 87 billion cubic feet…
ThinkstockThe U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released its weekly petroleum status report this morning. U.S. commercial crude inventories increased by 3.3 million barrels last week, bringing the total U.S. commercial crude inventory to 385.9…
ThinkstockWe have tracked the short interest in the following North American Solar companies as of March 15: Canadian Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: CSIQ), First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR), GT Advanced Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: GTAT), MEMC…
ThinkstockThe price of gasoline in China has been one way the central government has regulated the effects of fuel on both businesses and individuals. In theory, this sort of system can keep increases in…
thinkstockLDK Solar Co. Ltd. (NYSE: LDK) remains a very challenged company. This is to the point that the Chinese solar players is raising cash yet again in an amount that is small enough that you might…
ThinkstockWe cannot help but to notice just how active the activist investor community has been. Activist investors are literally influencing hundreds of billions of dollars of value in companies right now. The latest acceleration…
Wikimedia CommonsFines of energy companies continue to be the rage among the news media. Perhaps it is the hangover of the huge bonanza of press coverage following the BP PLC (NYSE: BP) Deepwater Horizon…
ThinkstockThe apparent resolution of the banking crisis in Cyprus has sent the price of WTI crude oil up more than 1.5% today, now above $95 a barrel. Brent crude is also up about 0.7%,…
ThinkstockCanaccord Genuity raised LED stocks in part of valuation and in part on the growth prospects ahead. We already have seen some serious bounces from the leader here, but the calls are not just optimistic.…