State of The Oil Market: H1 2015 Trading Patterns Convey a Crude RealityForbesThe last five weeks have been as volatile as any for the oil markets in recent memory. For those with net short positions, the focus of market chatter has remained broadly unchan …

Chron.com (blog)Oil plunges 4% on risk of low demand, high supplyMarketWatchBrent crude prices on Friday had dropped 2.8% following data that week showing an unexpected rise in weekly U.S. crude inventories and the first weekly increase in active U.S. oil …

City A.M.Oil Gets The Summertime BluesForbesAlthough the US markets haven't opened yet (8 a.m. at this writing), oil prices in Europe and Asia have plummeted, falling 2-4% on a variety of bad news. First and foremost, the anti-austerity vote in Greece …

MarketWatchOil futures stage rebound after recent lossesMarketWatchOil futures climbed on Thursday, with U.S. prices attempting to rebound following a drop to a 10-week low in the previous session, buoyed by dollar-weakness in the wake of the latest monthl …

Oil Price Forecast: Shale 2.0 Will Keep Supply AbundantForbesWhen we first started getting substantial oil from fracking and horizontal drilling, the news about costs indicated that oil production would decline at a fast rate when prices were low, pushing …

Desperate Venezuela 4: Oil Market Impact Of UnrestForbesLow oil prices would seem to suggest that there is nothing to worry about from potential political unrest in Venezuela. I think it's more that the situation in Venezuela's problems remain over …

ForbesHere Are The Crude Oil Charts To Watch NowForbesCrude oil prices continue to trade in the same narrow range for two months in a low volatility respite from the stomach-churning gyrations of the past year. Crude oil inventories are still at elevated l …

The IndependentOil industry freeze weighs on UK economyThe IndependentManufacturers are feeling the brunt of an investment freeze by oil and gas producers in the wake of tumbling oil prices over the past 12 months.Overall investment spending is set to grow …

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 …

Astro AwaniIraq Doses The Market With OilForbesThat is especially true because of the extremely low cost of producing oil in Iraq, thought to be the cheapest in the world and usually put around $5 a barrel. Even peak oil advocates have tended to see Iraq a …