Showing posts with label exxonmobil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label exxonmobil. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 10, 2016

A New Angle on Carbon Capture

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In my last couple of posts I looked at the difficulty of meeting ambitious targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) without help f...
Tuesday, April 22, 2014

ExxonMobil Confronts the Carbon Bubble

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Companies and investors are squaring off over the potential impact of government climate policies on asset values, particularly in the fos...
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014

The Pros and Cons of Exporting US Crude Oil

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Calls for an end to the effective ban on exporting most crude oil produced in the US are based on a growing imbalance in domestic crude qua...
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

More Long-Term Pressure on Oil Prices

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A pair of items in today's Financial Times could signal a longer run of high oil prices, even if Europe were to slip into recession and ...
Monday, May 02, 2011

The Oil Earnings Backlash

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Another oil industry earnings season bolstered by high oil prices has sparked the customary controversies about price gouging and industry s...
Friday, November 06, 2009

Cheap Oil

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When the US invaded Ba'athist Iraq, many ascribed that action to a desire to seize the country's vast oil reserves and develop them ...
Thursday, July 23, 2009

Big Algae?

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In spare moments during the last week I've been mulling over the implications of ExxonMobil's announcement of a very large investme...
Thursday, August 21, 2008

Defining Speculation

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Oil market speculation is back in the news, because Vitol S.A ., one of the world's largest oil-trading firms, has apparently been re-cl...
Friday, August 01, 2008

Petro Profits

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This energy crisis has given rise to a new American ritual: every quarter, after ExxonMobil's earnings are announced, the media breaks t...
Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Crossing the Rubicon?

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Although I haven't made any great study of the history of shareholder revolts, I suspect that it is fairly unusual for one to occur when...