American Gas Goes Global
Europe Can Thank US Shale For its Cheap Natural Gas

Gazprom may have a price war on its hands as it vies to keep U.S. LNG out of Europe.

Luddite Greens
Yes, the Left Can Be Anti-Science Too

Luddite sentiments run rampant on both sides of the aisle.

Arctic Shipping
China Rediscovers the Northwest Passage

China is looking to capitalize on melting Arctic ice by traversing the fabled Northwest Passage.

Latin Lefty Meltdown
Caracas Can’t Keep the Crude Coming

Next up in Venezuela’s economic death spiral: significant cuts to the petrostate’s oil production.

The Big Freeze Fail
Much A-Doha About Nothing

The Saudis scuppered a petrostate plan to freeze output in Doha this weekend. The plan was doomed from the start.

Hail Shale
US Energy Consumption Nearly Eclipsed by Surging Production

Thanks to the shale boom, US total energy production reached 91 percent of consumption in 2015. (But beware the energy independence myth!)

Hail Shale
Shale Gas Broke Another Record Last Year

American natural gas producers defied cheap prices and hit record output levels in 2015.

The Big Freeze
Oil’s Price Collapse Is Quickly Draining Petrostate Coffers

Cheap oil has cost the 18 petrostates convening in Doha this Sunday $315 billion, according to Bloomberg research.

The Big Freeze
OPEC Can’t Rebalance the Oil Market, but Shale Might

The International Energy Agency is skeptical of the petrostate plan to freeze output, but expects falling U.S. shale production to erase a global glut.

An Energy Eclipse
What This Solar Leader’s Struggles Say About the Industry

A former renewables rising star is plodding towards bankruptcy. The state of U.S. solar is looking quite shaky.

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