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Since the start of the year, 57 oil production and oilfield services companies have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Many more bankruptcies are on the way, all in the shale patch. And there...

It is not only the slower-than-expected global oil demand recovery that is weighing on oil prices. Some major geopolitical events and the return of previously curtailed U.S. shale production are set...

Oil and gas companies active in the Gulf of Mexico have shut-in almost 58 percent of oil production and 44.6 percent of gas production as a hurricane and tropical storm are approaching the area. The...

Whenever the commodity cycle reaches a trough, all eyes turn to China. Asia’s biggest powerhouse has through years of explosive growth become the top—or one of the top—importers of...

It’s been a brutal year for shale. While the sector was already faltering, spurring countless headlines about the death of shale over the past year or so, the novel coronavirus has dealt the...

Petrochemicals are expected to underpin global oil demand growth in the future as growth in transportation fuels demand is set to slow with the increased use of electric vehicles, the International...

China’s record-breaking crude oil imports supported oil prices through the late spring and summer when oil demand recovery in the rest of the world had just started and then wobbled amid...

After decades of dominance, America’s largest energy company Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM), has finally ceded its position as the world’s second most valuable energy company to India’s...

The pandemic has curtailed associated gas production in the Permian basin, temporarily relieving some gas flaring, but the basin could return to record gas production levels by the end of 2021. By...

Way back in January (it’s been a long year) Hallburton was already souring on shale. Way before the novel coronavirus put the final nail in the coffin of the West Texas shale revolution, the...

Oil Futures prices jumped to a four-month high on Tuesday, rallying on hopes of economic stimulus. However, the uncontrolled spread of the coronavirus in the U.S. puts something of a ceiling on prices...

Chevron (NYSE:CVX) has decided to acquire Noble Energy (NASDAQ:NBL) in a $5 billion deal, expanding its footprint in U.S. shale and in the Eastern Mediterranean. The acquisition is the first major...

The price of natural gas fell nearly 5% on Monday, as lower U.S. LNG exports threaten to exacerbate inventories, which are already significantly higher than the five-year average.The price of natural...

The coronavirus pandemic and the oil price collapse are accelerating the pace of bankruptcy filings in the U.S. shale patch this year. The number of filings had already started to trend up in 2019...

The oil market continues to tighten, but the surge of coronavirus cases in the U.S. could derail the rally in crude prices. OPEC+ can claim most of the credit for engineering an oil price rally,...

The low oil prices and the economic slowdown from the COVID-19 pandemic have hit the finances of Chinese companies hard. Another Chinese oil firm has defaulted on a dollar-denominated bond. Hilong...