ForbesOil At $60: How Marginal Producers Cope Will Shape Market DirectionForbesAs we approach the midway point of the current trading year, it has become apparent that oil benchmarks would find it hard to escape the $50-$75 per barrel range for the rest of …

ForbesBehind Friendly Lines: Discussing OPEC's Iranian Oil ConundrumForbesWhile it remains a big if, should Iran and world powers meet the 30 June deadline for finalizing a pact on curbing Tehran's nuclear program, that the Islamic Republic would t …

ForbesOil Markets and The Kerfuffle About Additional Iraqi BarrelsForbesAs OPEC prepares to meet, with little expectation of any movement on the cartel's customarily flouted oil production quota level of 30 million barrels per day (bpd), Iraq has provi …

ForbesNo Reason For OPEC To Relent in Oil Market TussleForbesThat OPEC is not going to give ground became quite clear back in November at its last meeting, where the oil producers' collective decided not to cut the 30 million barrels per day (bpd) prod …

Venezuela Cuts Oil Subsidies To Caribbean NationsNPR (blog)Low oil prices are forcing Venezuela to cut a generous subsidy program to Cuba and a dozen other Caribbean nations. Venezuela is Latin America's largest oil producer, and its economy depends he …

ForbesDecline of US Shale Plays Not Clear Cut as Oil Price Stays LowForbesEver since the oil price decline began in earnest back in July 2014, popular discourse has suggested US shale plays would be in deep trouble. Despite protestations to the contrary, o …

Irish TimesSaudi intervention in Yemen unlikely to move oil prices muchIrish TimesOil prices rose sharply last week amid concerns that fighting in the Arabian Peninsula between a Saudi-led coalition and Houthi rebels in Yemen could disrupt supplies. While …

Financial PostU.S. Oil Posts First Weekly Gain in Five on Weak DollarBloombergOil has renewed its collapse after slumping almost 50 percent last year as U.S. crude inventories and production climb to the highest levels in more than three decades, even as d …

MarketWatchOil could be heading to $40 againMarketWatchStocks are no longer moving in tight tandem with oil. But...“Crude oil is falling again, and if U.S. equities remain unstable amid differing prospects for a Fed rate hike, it will weigh on global equit …

State's next gamble is oil trainsAlbany Times UnionHaving won approval for legalized casino gambling in New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is now rolling the dice on oil trains. The string of oil train disasters over the last year and a half, including four d …