Trump’s Venezuela deal underlines the urgency of building new export pipelines to reach non-US customers: But that doesn’t mean the universe will unfold like Trump thinks it will Alarm bells were ringing off the walls in Canada last week after Donald Trump and...
There must be a limit to how much uncertainty people can deal with before it starts to affect their judgement. It appears that some of the investment consultants giving advice about crude oil futures and the prospects for peace in the Persian Gulf are having a...
The Saskatchewan Party government has ambitious plans for increasing the province’s crude oil production and exports. On August 6, Premier Scott Moe told listeners to the Evan Bray radio program, “We’d like to see a doubling of our production, or at least a 50...
As I write this, we are now 143 days into the US-Israel war on Iran and many of the more dire predictions about the war’s impact on oil prices, supply and the global economy have so far proven to be wrong. This is an amazing state of affairs given that so many...
I was wrong last month when I wrote that Danielle Smith was far too talented to subject Albertans to a bad pipeline deal. I naively assumed that behind the scenes her officials were taking a tough position, working to reverse or at least modify those elements of the...
