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Commercialization, Conventional Fuels

Can Integrated Value Chains Withstand Low Oil Prices?

November 13, 2019

Via: Forbes

Think back only a few years to 2015 – oil prices were at similar levels to today. The oil majors’ upstream financial performance was poor, but their downstream businesses saved the day for overall corporate results. The benefits of the […]


Commercialization, Conventional Fuels

The Next Oil Price Collapse

December 19, 2017

Via: Forbes

There is significant optimism about oil prices for next year, given the return of inventories to something approaching “normal” levels, and a high degree of compliance amongst oil producers who have agreed to cut production. Strong economic growth should see […]


Chemical, Conventional Fuels

The 150,000 Oil Jobs That May Never Come Back

February 6, 2017

Via: Energy Collective

Since oil prices started falling a couple of years ago, energy firms have automated many repetitive, dangerous, and expensive tasks, which in turn has meant fewer blue collar jobs in the space. Products such as those from National Oilwell Varco […]


Chemical, Conventional Fuels

Will We Ever See $100 Oil Again?

November 22, 2016

Via: Energy Collective

The rise, which would pull oil prices up from the below $50 per barrel mark where it has sunk since late October, should facilitate a rise in capital expenditure (capex), PwC argued. The report highlights the precipitous decline in global […]


Energy Economics

Why Oil Markets Should Brace For OPEC Disappointment

September 23, 2016

Via: Energy Collective

OPEC talked up an oil price rally in August by floating the possibility of a freeze deal, but has since all but admitted that nothing would come of the Algeria meeting, at least not right away. In any event, a […]


Conventional Fuels, Energy Economics, Nuclear

Low Price of Gas, Stagnant Economy, Are Killing Off U.S. Nukes

June 7, 2016

Via: Energy Collective

Exelon Corp. has announced that it will close its Clinton and Quad Cities nuclear reactors in Illinois after losing $800 million over the past seven years. The firm said that the failure of the State of Illinois to give nuclear […]