oil resources

• The Growth of Unconventional Oil

  By Scott Wright  |  October 28, 2011

  Thanks to higher prices and technological advances, oil companies are finding that the production of unconventional oil can be highly profitable even at higher costs. The higher prices have afforded positive economics to more reserves.

• Amine Bouchentouf: Offshore Oil Key to Future Supplies

  By Zig Lambo  |  October 11, 2011

  Despite the risks and unfavorable public opinion associated with offshore drilling, the truth remains that the keys to unlock the planet's vast remaining oil resources lie beneath ocean floors, in places like the Gulf of Mexico, Brazil and the Arctic.

• Please, No More Oil Subsidies

  By Anthony J. Alfidi  |  May 2, 2011

  Washington is slowly drifting toward fiscal sanity, more by accident than by design. There is now semi-serious talk of curtailing or eliminating subsidies to the oil exploration industry. Defense of tax credits for small explorers is disingenuous.

• Where the Shale Oil Plays Are Around the Globe

  By Keith Schaefer  |  March 24, 2011

  The first shale play only started producing about 12 years ago. Getting oil and gas out of rock is the single largest and most important advancement in the energy industry since the age of oil began 150 years ago, and it's still in its infancy.

• A Loss of Appetite?

  By Jon Nadler  |  March 22, 2011

  Tuesday's trading action opened under somewhat more subdued conditions as a slight easing in the level of apprehensions surrounding Japan and the MENA region induced global investors to seek more profits in equity and risk.

• The Next Big Emerging Markets?

  By Frank Holmes  |  August 4, 2010

  We have liked the long-term prospects for most of these countries for quite a while. Here are some of our thoughts and observations.