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ThinkstockHigh-flying energy company InterOil Corp. (NYSE: IOC) is getting another stock price boost this morning after revealing that the company is in “exclusive” negotiations with Exxon Mobil...
thinkstockThe U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) today reported the U.S. natural gas stocks increased by 89 billion cubic feet last week, at the lower end of a range of an expected build of...
ThinkstockLast year was a good year for oil and gas stocks, but unless a company had a refining and marketing operation, it was not a great year. Share prices rose by at least 80% for pure-play...
ThinkstockThe U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released its weekly petroleum status report this morning. U.S. commercial crude inventories decreased by 300,000 barrels last week, bringing...
ThinkstockA strong stock market has the oil and gas master limited partnerships (MLPs) on fire in 2013, which already offer high dividends or distributions as income and return of capital. MLPs...
ThinkstockThe U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) has released its annual report on U.S. ethanol production capacity for 2013. The 193 U.S. ethanol plants have a total capacity of 903,000...
The Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) may have dated regulations for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, on public and Indian lands. That will, for the time being, keep...
ThinkstockGasoline prices for Memorial Day will reach a two-year high, according to data from the AAA Fuel Gauge Report. It is not clear at all what, if anything, this will do to the economy. So...
courtesy of ArcelorMittalSterne Agee has released a consolidated report showing the firm’s top analyst stock picks in energy and industrials now that we are out of the first quarter earnings...
ThinkstockWith first-quarter earnings largely in the rear-view mirror, the oil services analysts at Deutsche Bank A.G. (NYSE: DB) wanted to revisit the thesis for each of their top stocks to buy. In...
courtesy Chesapeake Energy Corp.Barely six weeks after founder and former chairman and CEO Aubrey McClendon was shown the door, Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK) has named his successor. Robert...
ThinkstockChesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK) finally has succeeded in throwing out its morally challenged CEO Aubrey McClendon and some of his equally morally challenged board. McClendon not only...
ThinkstockActivist investor Carl Icahn had proposed that the world’s largest offshore drilling firm, Transocean Ltd. (NYSE: RIG), pay shareholders a one-time dividend of $4 a share and to replace 3...
thinkstockThe U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) today reported the U.S. natural gas stocks increased by 99 billion cubic feet last week, above the expected build of about 95 billion cubic...
ThinkstockThe U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released its weekly petroleum status report this morning. U.S. commercial crude inventories decreased by 600,000 barrels last week, bringing...