Saudi Arabia needs oil prices and revenues to go even higher in the coming years to pay for the kingdom’s transformation away from oil. Saudi Aramco photo. Oil prices have risen 175 per cent since [Read more]
Between 2011 and 2014, when oil prices averaged over $100 per barrel, declining consumption in the OECD and slowing consumption growth in the non-OECD created the conditions for the last oil slump. If oil [Read more]
Study: Canada’s long-term energy security needs and climate commitments cannot be met without major changes A new study by veteran earth scientist David Hughes anchors the heated debate about pipeline and energy infrastructure within the [Read more]
Major Canadian cities have shown leadership in building a more co-ordinated approach to attracting foreign investment from places such as China and Europe By Glen Hodgson, senior fellow, Conference Board of Canada Invest in Canada, the new federal [Read more]
In this article, the author, Maximilian Auffhammer questions how effective offering subsidies on used electric vehicles would be for the environment. Energy Institute at Haas photo. Does a program to subsidize used electric vehicles make [Read more]
Managers of hedge funds are more cautious about increasing their exposure to oil, but are more optimistic about the outlook for refined fuels. BP photo. Hedge funds cut futures and options contracts by 6M barrels [Read more]
Deep cycles are a natural condition of oil prices and John Kemp says there is no reason to think the future will be any different. Anadarko photo. OPEC, major producers can influence oil prices in [Read more]
John Kemp argues that if OPEC maintains its current output curbs through December, the market is set to become exceptionally tight, which will push prices and spreads towards unstable levels. Anadarko photo. By John Kemp [Read more]
Hedge fund managers have gambled everything on a goldilocks scenario in which oil prices rise without damaging demand or spurring too much shale drilling. Anadarko photo. Hedge fund community’s positioning has become “exceptionally lopsided” By [Read more]
OPEC and its allies, as well as other oil producers, need to incorporate the increasing probability of a US recession and global slowdown when projecting oil consumption and prices in 2019 and 2020. 40 per [Read more]
Policymakers are rapidly embracing trade and investment restrictions for a range of reasons, ranging from trying to raise wages to protect strategic sectors and national security concerns. Getty Images photo by Drew Angerer. Trade and [Read more]
Hedge funds positioning in Brent has become exceptionally stretched and is a significant source of downside risk if and when fund managers try to realize some of their profits. Anadarko photo. Hedge funds bullishness becoming [Read more]
Helping China to adapt faster could be Canada’s most important global contribution to the low-carbon transition By Glen Hodgson, senior fellow, Conference Board of Canada Climate change is a global problem—not just a domestic one—requiring [Read more]
Trade tensions between the United States and China are creating uncertainty for businesses, and could threaten their global supply chains and future investment plans. By John Kemp LONDON, April 10 (Reuters) – Trade tensions between [Read more]
Joule Bergerson and graduate student Matt Tierney completed a Low Carbon Economic Case Study developed in partnership with the City of Calgary By Andrea Kingwell, for the Office of the Vice-President (Research) The debate around [Read more]
Investors and traders are probably underestimating the difficulty of the negotiations and the risk the United States and China could drift into a damaging trade war by accident. Getty Images photo by Chip Somodevilla. Game of [Read more]
President Donald Trump has insisted a trade war is winnable and pushed his officials to increase the scope of the target list and China has appeared anxious to avert a trade conflict but threatened a [Read more]
In an article posted by The Energy Institute at Haas on April 8, 2018, James Sallee argued the Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards are the reason cars in the United States are twice as fuel [Read more]
Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers calling on Federal govt to align environmental policies with other jurisdictions The world’s thirst for energy is on the rise and Canada has an opportunity to meet the growing global [Read more]
China’s new crude oil futures contract has a good chance of confounding the doubters and becoming a regional benchmark where other contracts have failed. Wall Street Journal photo. China’s oil futures fulfil commercial hedging needs, [Read more]
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