Crude and natural gas markets, OPEC decisions, drilling activity, LNG, refining, and the geopolitics shaping the petroleum industry.
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Subscribe to Oil & GasThe global oil and gas industry remains shaped by OPEC production decisions, geopolitical tensions, and the long-term trajectory of energy demand. Our coverage spans the full value chain -- upstream exploration and drilling, midstream pipeline and LNG infrastructure, and downstream refining and petrochemicals. From rig counts and reserve estimates to policy shifts and trade flows, this section tracks the forces that move crude and natural gas markets worldwide.
Copper stalls just below record highs as China's imports slump even as mine supply tightens, while Troilus triples its project value, Ivanhoe grows its DRC discovery 30%, and Eldorado ships first concentrate from Skouries.
Nvidia's chip shortage is easing, but the grid isn't keeping up. As GPU supply chains loosen, data center developers are drilling their own gas wells and states are slapping on new taxes to control an infrastructure race that has quietly become an energy problem.
Energy and metals stocks are hitting highs built on scarcity, not growth — a Houthi drone over Jizan and a vanishing copper stockpile are doing more to move markets than any earnings report.
The billionaire who brokered America's biggest oil deal in history was, until recently, the target of a federal money-laundering probe -- one U.S. prosecutors quietly shelved.
The U.S. struck three Iranian oil tankers and record gasoline prices greeted Labor Day drivers, but the barrels that actually calmed the market this year belonged to a buyer who simply stopped showing up.
Every unpatented mining claim across all twelve BLM states. Leadfile audits, due diligence, site selection, regional prospecting, entity investigations, and AOI monitoring — delivered as complete report packages.
Crude is only telling half the story. Record diesel refining margins — not barrels of oil — are now setting the real price of energy, and Wall Street is positioning for it to stay that way.
This week in energy: Brent crude approached $96 a barrel as renewed U.S.-Iran strikes kept the Strait of Hormuz on edge, U.S. diesel prices hit an all-time high, and Citadel emerged as a potential buyer of U.S. shale assets. Key developments across oil, gas, renewables, and mining sectors.
ArcPy scripting techniques—including the arcpy.da cursor module, batch geoprocessing loops, and enterprise system integration—let energy companies automate the mapping and analysis of pipelines, grids, and renewable sites at scale.
Energy GIS relies primarily on geographic coordinate systems like WGS84 and projected systems like UTM and State Plane to accurately locate wells, pipelines, and infrastructure on maps.
Boliden's $1.3 billion move on Nexa Resources headlines a wire dominated by zinc's supply squeeze, a first underground blast at a historic Utah uranium mine, a $75 million rare-earth recycling raise, and fresh gold drilling in Brazil.
This week in energy: Iran war fallout sent VLCC tanker rates toward $650,000 a day, Venezuela began weighing an OPEC exit that would follow the UAE's, and Brent crude reclaimed $90 as gold notched its best month since January. Key developments across oil, gas, renewables, and mining sectors.
Washington is negotiating direct ownership of Venezuelan oil fields holding 90 billion barrels — a deal that would more than double U.S. reserves and reshape the hemisphere's energy map.
Iran blacklists 45 tankers as Washington preps an 'economic D-Day' — but the real story is a market that's bearish on crude and bullish on nearly everything else.
Denmark just wrote data centers to the back of its power queue. In West Texas, Amazon and Microsoft are building their way around the queue entirely — with gas plants that could lift U.S. power emissions by a third.
Official traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has collapsed to a handful of ships a day. A shadow fleet operating just outside it explains why oil prices haven't followed.
While traders obsess over Hormuz, BP just handed Abu Dhabi and Qatar their first stake in Venezuela — a slower, structural bet that could matter more than any tanker standoff.
This week in energy: Brent crude surged toward $100 a barrel as Hormuz attacks disrupted tanker traffic, Alaska's $50 billion LNG pipeline bill collapsed in the state legislature, and Boralex went private in a $6.5 billion Brookfield-led buyout. Key developments across oil, gas, renewables, and mining sectors.
NioCorp's upsized Elk Creek feasibility study anchors a critical-minerals-heavy news day that also brought a record copper squeeze, an Antofagasta profit beat clouded by Chile weather, and a fresh silver-buyback milestone from Pan American.
Oil barely moved Tuesday, but energy stocks are flirting with overbought territory -- a sign the sector's rally has stopped waiting for crude to cooperate.
A grounded tanker's spreading oil slick threatens a protected whale sanctuary off Oman, laying bare the price of a Hormuz standoff still without an end date.
