Baker Hughes Incorporated (NYSE: BHI) has released its first rig count in weeks that shows an increase. This follows months and months of declining rig counts as many were down more than half from…
This year is going to mark a significant change in the Russell rebalance and reconstitution at end of June. Now that oil and other energy related commodities have been cut in half from the…
A new study from MIT says that if the US and China cannot control and reduce carbon dioxide emissions from coal-burning plants, efforts at cutting back on global warming may be a failure. The…
Teekay Tankers Ltd. (NYSE: TNK) now plans to sell 7,000,000 shares of common stock in a public secondary offering. This is a bit of an unusual offering as the company expects to use the…
Quest Energy Partners, L.P. (NASDAQ: QELP) got hit hard on fairly innocent trading volume today. The partnership was formed by Quest Resource Corporation (NASDAQ: QRCP) to acquire, exploit and develop natural gas and oil…
Robert W. Baird has started several of the green or less-dirty energy players and water-plays in new coverage this morning. Most of these are very unexciting ratings with a “Neutral” rating. Among these are…
FuelCell Energy Inc. (NASDAQ: FCEL) is getting hammered this morning. The developer and manufacturer of fuel cell power plants for electric power generation announced a $24.2 million financing pact this morning. The company sold…
Whatever bad news California may have faced in the past, it is getting worse. The new UCLA Anderson Forecast predicts that the state will not have any economic recovery until well into 2010 and…
Advanced Battery Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: ABAT) recently raised $10 million in a private placement. It has agreed to sell additional $7 million worth of convertible preferred stock and warrants to three of the institutional…
It has become commonplace among analysts and oil traders to fear that crude prices are up so much that inflation will have to return the market. A recent piece from Reuters reinforces that sentiment.…
We keep getting asked a single question from readers and from our own industry and professional contacts: Are Oil Stocks Cheap? There is a very simple answer in today’s markets: Oil stocks look very…
Spire Corporation (Nasdaq: SPIR) has announced that it has reached an agreement with Gloria Solar Co., Ltd. in Taiwan to liquidate their joint venture called Gloria Spire Solar, LLC. The venture performed PV systems…
Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM) may be getting deeper and deeper in Alaska via a monster pipeline project. A report from the Houston Chronicle said the oil giant is in discussions with TransCanada Corp.…
The International Energy Agency seems to have caught on to what everyone else already knows: demand for oil is moving up. The IEA’s new forecast may still be off in terms of how much…
The weekly DOE inventories confirmed the EIA data last night, and the data is about just as bullish for oil and energy prices. The United States Oil (NYSE: USO) ETF and iPath S&P GSCI…