Caterpillar is reorganizing only four years after making its biggest acquisition ever, spending $7.5 billion on Bucyrus International Inc. The company faces what it says is [Read more...]

“WHAT IF: What if the world is shifting from an “investment phase” of a 30-year commodity cycle to an “exploitation phase?”  How does this professional [Read more...]

Falling oil prices could lead to the closure of 140 fields in the North Sea over the next five years. Falling global prices and geographic and product source competition are [Read more...]

This from a selective assessment from a Bismarck Tribune news report. // As of the end of June 2015, the most recent figures available, shipments of Bakken crude oil from [Read more...]

The Bloomberg Commodity Index, a basket of 22 raw materials including crude and gold is trading at a 2002 low. It has slumped 14 percent this year. To read the entire [Read more...]

Governor Wolf of Pennsylvania has released Oil Train Safety Report August 17, 2015 The report was written by Dr. Allan Zarembski . It focused on the safety of Pennsylvanians [Read more...]

Interesting Bloomberg report on Aug 13, 2015 Huge variance in expert outlooks on crude oil prices… Oil and gas restructuring specialist John Castellano at AlixPartners [Read more...]

Published by Bloomberg, Jul 20, 2015 Oil has been reeling for about a year; now gold is getting slammed— Commodities are at a 13-year low. How will this affect your [Read more...]

From Bloomberg, Jul 13, 2015 Shale fields that powered the U.S. energy renaissance will suffer the biggest drop in output since the boom began after companies idled more than [Read more...]

A Bloomberg report on Jul 8, 2015 The analysis of the demand for port and rail freight always begins with an examination of the market supply/demand at the buyers level. [Read more...]