Brent were up 6 cents, or 0.1%, at $67.98 a barrel, WTI was up 11 cents, or 0.2%, at $61.79 a barrel.

“It really is a great irony that at a time when the United States became the world’s biggest producer and has become a great exporter, that investors have become skeptical and have adopted a position of ‘show me the money,’”

Brent settled up 81 cents, or 1.22%, at $67.20 a barrel, WTI settled up 59 cents, or 0.97%, at $61.11 a barrel.

Gazprom is showing that the strategy chosen for 2020 -- and potentially over the longer term -- is to defend its market share in Europe by flooding the Continent with cheap gas, send alternative sources of supply, in particular LNG, out of the money, traders told

Spending an estimated Eur66 billion on the three projects, Gazprom clearly saw money as being no object to achieving its goals -- be they economic, geopolitical or both.

This was supposed to be a breakout year for US LNG export projects getting commercially sanctioned. But with 2019 wrapping up, just two new export terminals and an additional train at an existing facility made it over the line to construction.

The macroeconomic outlook is more subdued and uncertain than in recent years. India's economy growth is projected at 6.1 percent in FY2019/20. Investment and private consumption are expected to firm in the second half of the fiscal year.

Brent was down 22 cents, or 0.33%, at $65.92 per barrel, WTI was down 25 cents, or 0.41%, at $60.19 a barrel

If your business case depends on the cost of energy or the cost of storage remaining where they are, ask yourself, what if the cost goes down 50%? That’s only 3 years of decline at 20%/year.

U.S. Rig Count is up 14 rigs from last week to 813, Canada Rig Count is down 4 rigs from last week to 149

Brent were up 5 cents, or 0.08%, to 66.59 a barrel, WTI was down 8 cents, or 0.13%, at $61.10 per barrel.

Europe’s imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) have been steadily increasing since October 2018, and reached a new monthly record of 12.7 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) in November 2019

Electricity generation from coal will rise only marginally over that period, at less than 1% per year – and its share will decline from 38% in 2018 to 35% in 2024. This means coal remains by far the single largest source of power supply worldwide.

The U.S. current account deficit, which reflects the combined balances on trade in goods and services and income flows between U.S. residents and residents of other countries, narrowed by $1.1 billion, or 0.9 percent, to $124.1 billion in the third quarter of 2019

Serbia's economic growth is projected at 3.5 percent in 2019 and 4 percent in 2020, with negative contributions from the external environment offset by strong domestic demand.