Seeking AlphaThe Palm Oil Industry: Visualized Through Big DataSeeking AlphaPalm oil is an inexpensive and highly versatile vegetable oil derived from the fruit of the oil palm tree. It can be found in half of all consumer goods in Western grocery stores, …

OilPrice.comWhy Oil Prices Will Keep Moving UpOilPrice.comCrude oil prices were have hit a two-year highs. Despite the misgivings of some pundits who view oil simply as a means for making money from short plays, the global market has finally stabilized. Th …

Supermajors Square Off For The Top Spot In OilOilPrice.comBrent's close to $65 a barrel and WTI is climbing closer and closer to $60—and analysts are rushing to make bullish forecasts for the fourth quarter of the year. Big Oil is preparing for an even …

Can Iraq Dethrone Saudi Arabia In This Crucial Oil Market?OilPrice.comWe've been harping on in recent weeks about how Saudi has been slashing crude flows to North America, but as we can see in our ClipperData below, it has been cutting flows to other k …

ForbesSaudi Arabia Would Take Oil Prices Back To $100 AgainForbesAnd there are a couple of ways of achieving this ambitious goal. One of them is to manage traders' and investors' expectations about oil inventories, by creating the sense of an oil o …

ForbesUS Oil Production Fell During Recent HurricanesForbesThe horrifically sad and destructive blitz of hurricanes on the U.S. Gulf region lowered domestic crude oil production. Despite the onshore shale boom, the Gulf of Mexico still accounts for 17-20% …

FortuneOil Prices Have Rallied. So Why Is No One Celebrating?FortuneWorld oil prices hit recently their highest level in over two years. At the end of September, the commodity climbed to $59 a barrel ($58 in October), meaning the international Brent blend …

Independent Online'Oil diplomat' Rex Tillerson is so bad for AfricaIndependent OnlineSince Tillerson became chief executive of ExxonMobil in 2006, his interest in Africa was driven by the need to maximise profits in terms of Exxon's oil investm …

Yahoo NewsCrude Oil Prices Slump to Weekly Loss as Oversupply Concerns ResurfaceYahoo NewsInvesting.com – Crude oil prices settled lower on Friday as investor attention shifted to a potential disruption to energy infrastructure in the Gulf of Mexico as Tro …

ForbesThe Future For Oil Supply And Prices After The 'Amazon Effect' Stimulates Shale 2.0ForbesThe Energy Information Administration (EIA) went out on a limb this past summer and forecast what is already happening: U.S. crude oil production is on t …