Brazil is exceptional with its beautiful beaches, vast lush land mass and optimism (sounds like the US). I am currently in the center of the...

I was quoted in a Financial Times  story today on floating storage barrels coming ashore being an oil price lid for the moment:  “The conta...

As you will know from Oil 101 , natural gas has been finding an increased use as an alternative to oil as a transportation fuel in a particu...

The chart above (Chart 1) puts this week's bearish US oil inventories (released each Wednesday) in perspective. Oil prices dropped by US...

Although new oilfields are discovered every year, it is unfortunately a fact that the number of large oilfield discoveries has been in a mul...

On CNBC's Closing Bell live today I spoke with Maria Bartiromo about commodities. ( click here to view on CNBC's site if it doesn...

An article by Thomas Friedman in the NY Times today calls for the US government to raise retail taxes on oil. In the past I have discussed ...

The expected continues not to happen. Black swan events tend to be thought of as low probability events which occur. There can also of cour...

Running through many historical scenarios for other developing nations such as Brazil and Thailand I have come to the stark conclusion that ...

Cats are curious (a friend of mine behind the computer screen) Since 1982 the number of people in the world has grown by almost 45% or 2 b...