Tag: business

March 3, 2022

Two of my recent articles — namely here and here — seem to have spawned or at least contributed to ...

Ford Rises On Plan To Carve Out ‘Model e’ Electric Vehicle Business

Ford Motor Co. is doubling down on plans to compete with Elon Musk’s Tesla, General Motors and other global rivals ...

Dow Jumps 600 Points, Oils Hits 11-Year High As ‘Investors Are Whipsawed’ By Rate Hikes And Russia-Ukraine Conflict

ToplineThe stock market jumped on Wednesday—despite oil prices skyrocketing to their highest level since 2011 amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine—as ...

After The Ukraine Invasion: Energy Realism Emerges In Germany While The US Doubles Down

In a landmark address on February 27th to the Bundestag, the German parliament, Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced a stunning shift ...

Rate Hikes Are Coming In March Despite ‘Uncertain’ Impact From Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine, Powell Says

March 4, 2022

ToplineFederal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell confirmed in testimony before Congress on Wednesday that the central bank would begin raising interest ...

The Bullish Long-Term Oil Picture: $125 To $165

March 5, 2022

With oil rising over $100 per barrel, we look at the longer term picture. The graph below is constructed from ...

Fracking Billionaire Harold Hamm Plans To Reverse Course And Pump Millions Of Tons Of Carbon Into The Earth

March 5, 2022

Continental Resources will invest $250 million in a project to capture and inject 8 million tons of carbon dioxide a ...

Should Institutional Investors Jump Back Into Oil & Gas Private Equity?

While ESG (environmental, social and governance) mandates on pension fund managers, sovereign wealth fund managers, and other institutional investors are ...

Exxon To Mount A Major Hydrogen, CCS Project At Its Baytown Complex

As part of its expanding Low Carbon Solutions business unit, ExxonMobil announced plans on Tuesday to mount a major new ...

Biden’s Clean Industry Policies Could Be Among Most Consequential U.S. Climate Actions

President Biden’s State of the Union speech highlighted actions he has taken to address climate change and strengthen the United ...

Dow Falls 600 Points, Oil Prices Surge As Russia-Ukraine Conflict Continues To Roil Markets

ToplineThe stock market plunged on Tuesday—with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling roughly 600 points, while oil prices surged to ...

The Ukraine Crisis Is A Wake-Up Call For Energy Security

The world is watching anxiously as the conflict in Ukraine unfolds. While no one knows what the days ahead hold, ...

Oil Prices Hit New Seven-Year High At $105 Per Barrel As Russian Assault On Kyiv Sparks Supply Fears

ToplineOil prices continued to skyrocket on Tuesday as Russia’s military ramped up its assault on Ukraine’s capital city of Kyiv, ...

Wildfire Season Is Year-Round. How To Keep The Lights On And Businesses Running

Colorado ended 2021 with a wildfire in the Boulder area that destroyed nearly 1,000 homes. It then endured single-digit temperatures ...

On Energy Mineral Supply Chains, Biden Faces An Existential Conflict

In June of last year, President Joe Biden announced that his administration would mount a “whole of government” effort to ...

The New Frontier In Electric Vehicles: Trains With Batteries Big Enough To Power Small Towns

Like a lumbering, mile-long train, change in the freight rail industry isn’t speedy and has to be phased in with ...

Economic Fallout From Russia’s Invasion Will Be ‘Modest’—But Inflation Will Surge Higher, This Expert Predicts

February 28, 2022

ToplineWhile Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is taking a “massive” human toll, the global economic fallout is likely to remain “modest,” ...

Western Sanctions Aim to Cut Off Russia from Critical High-Tech Goods

February 28, 2022

As Russia further invaded Ukraine last week, the West is deploying an arsenal of painful sanctions against Moscow, targeting energy ...

Shell Joins BP—Abandons $3 Billion Russia Investments After ‘Senseless’ Ukraine Invasion

February 28, 2022