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Bad News for Pipelines – Good News for Rail

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One of the first oil pipelines originated in the 1860s, when the Oil Transport Association constructed a wrought iron pipeline from an oil field in Pennsylvania to a railroad station 6 miles away. The pipeline was only 2 inches in diameter. Pipelines are generally more economical than shipping by railroad. But they have more regulatory hurdles. With the recent problems with getting approval for the Keystone XL pipeline, rail transportation has been growing.

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Oil Prices- Where Now?

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Conflicting Forces at Play with Oil Prices An Interview with Mike Shedlock  As markets continue to yo-yo and commentators deliver mixed forecasts, investors are faced with some tough decisions and have a number of important questions that need answering. OilPrice.com was fortunate enough to speak with the award winning economic commentator Mike “Mish” Shedlock. His blog: Mish’s

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Things Are About to Get Much Worse for Energy Firms in Argentina

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Things Are About to Get Much Worse for Energy Firms in Argentina – Interview with Sam Logan Angering Spain by seizing and nationalizing a majority of Repsol’s shares in YPF and ramping up the rhetoric over the Falkland Islands as exploration deals promise to make the territory a major oil player overnight, Argentina is making

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Investing in Oil for Small Investors

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Today’s investing environment provides a wide variety of opportunities for smaller investors. Among them is the availability for smaller investors to participate in the oil futures market. This has come about due to the creation of the E-mini contract. E-minis are futures contracts that represent a fraction of the value of normal futures contracts. E-mini contracts

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The Making of Kurdistan: Oil, Investment and a Turkish Gamble

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They say, “politics makes strange bedfellows” and nowhere is that more apparent than in the middle east. Oil and the massive investment returns it can bring can turn friends into enemies and enemies into friends in rather short order.  Up until recently Turkey has been at odds with the Kurds in Northern Iraq but all that is

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Iran Hopes Exporting Electricity Will Cover for Reduced Oil Demand

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Exporting Electricity Against the backdrop of discussions about pending negotiations over its controversial nuclear program and the upcoming deadline of an European embargo on Iranian oil comes a quiet push by the Islamic republic to become a major electricity exporter. Tehran had said it was expecting to secure electricity deals with Syria and Lebanon and

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