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Crude Oil Price Collapses Through Key Supports: More to Go? Jun 1, 2019 10:00 pm -04:00 by  James Stanley ,   Currency Strategist     Crude Oil Price Talking Points: Crude Oil prices had a brutal month of May, capped by a 6% move lower on the final day of the month as the previous bullish theme continued to unwind. A trend that took four months to build has...

Russia, Iran Face Backlash Over Oil Shipments To Syria By RFE/RL staff - Nov 24, 2018, 10:00 AM CST   The U.S. Treasury Department has targeted six individuals and three entities that it says are part of an Iranian-Russian network providing millions of barrels of oil to the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and funding the militant groups Hamas and Hizballah. The Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control said on November 20 that...

Alaska Sees Record Breaking Year For Oil And Gas Leases By Tim Daiss - Nov 17, 2018, 4:00 PM CST Join Our Community Alaska is still trying to make an oil production comeback after years of declining production from maturing fields. On Wednesday, the Alaska Department of Natural Resources said in a release that the state held another record-breaking oil and gas North Slope lease, netting competitive bids from investors around the world and breaking last...

Gas to overtake coal as world's second largest energy source by 2030, says IEA Natural gas will be fastest growing fossil fuel. Global gas demand to rise by 1.6 percent a year to 2040. Coal to fall behind renewables in power generation mix. Published 16 Hours Ago Updated 10 Hours Ago Reuters      ...

Iran’s Ghost Tankers Are Slipping Through The Cracks By ZeroHedge - Nov 07, 2018, 2:00 PM CST Join Our Community In anticipation of the U.S. sanctions against Iranian oil exports, which were reimposed by the Trump Administration on Monday (along with additional sanctions on everything from Iranian shipping to banking and insurance), oil tankers bearing the Iranian flag have embraced a stealthy approach to keeping the oil flowing: They're...