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ThinkstockInvestment firm Sterne Agee this morning published its outlook for the oil field services sector, calling for limited upside in North American activity, improvement in international...
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ThinkstockAfter withdrawing a planned spin-off of a master limited partnership in November, SunCoke Energy Inc. (NYSE: SXC) this morning announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary SunCoke Energy...
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ThinkstockOil field services company Baker Hughes Inc. (NYSE: BHI) this morning reported that its count of foreign oil and gas drilling rigs fell from 1,267 in November to 1,253 in December. Adding...
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ThinkstockA Brazilian oil and gas player has filed to come public in the United States. The company is called QGOG Constellation S.A., and it calls itself a market leading Brazilian-controlled...
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ThinkstockThe government of Iran has long held that the U.S. and European sanctions being imposed on the country have had little impact on the Iranian economy. But in a report to the country’s...
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ThinkstockBy John C.K. Daly of Oilprice.com China is the world’s largest coal producer and consumer and currently accounts for about half of the global coal consumption. The U.S. Energy...
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ThinkstockEnvironmental advocacy groups expressing concern over frontier oil developments in the Alaskan arctic started the New Year on news that Shell’s (NYSE:RDS.A) problems in the region...
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courtesy U.S. State DepartmentThe much-maligned Keystone XL pipeline project proposed by Transcanada Corp. (NYSE: TRP) today received a go-ahead from the state of Nebraska’s Department of...
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ThinkstockThe US Energy Information Administration (EIA) released its weekly petroleum status report this morning. US commercial crude inventories decreased by 11.1 million barrels last week,...
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ThinkstockThere is a new exchange-traded product in the world of Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs). We would caution investors that this is an exchange traded note rather than an exchange traded...
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thinkstockThe U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) today reported the U.S. natural gas stocks declined by 135 billion cubic feet last week, above an average expected drop of around 127...
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thinkstockLooking back on 2012, it is hard to discern the biggest story in the oil and gas sector. The reshuffling of assets was certainly a contender, as was the huge growth in U.S. oil production....
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ThinkstockLost among most of the discussions about the health of Venezuela’s president-for-life, Hugo Chavez, as he moves toward what seems will be an imminent death is the future of the nation’s...
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ThinkstockTransocean Ltd. (NYSE: RIG), the owner and operator of the Deepwater Horizon rig that exploded and burned in 2010, taking 11 workers’ lives and dumping 5 million barrels of crude into the...
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ThinkstockLast night’s agreement on a fiscal cliff deal is lifting the commodities markets this morning, especially for crude oil. Traders are reacting to the now-lessened chance of a global...
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