Energy
  • usFILE PHOTO: A bulldozer moves coal at the Murray Energy Corporation port facility in Powhatan Point, Ohio

    Trump's Coal Job Push Stumbles in Most States

    By Valerie Volcovici, Reuters

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's effort to put coal miners back to work stumbled in most coal producing states last year, even as overall employment in the downtrodden sector grew...

  • The massive Big John dragline works to reshape the rocky landscape in some of the last sections to be mined for coal at the Hobet site in Boone County

    Why US Coal Producers Are Having a Very Good Year

    By Tom DiChristopher, CNBC

    U.S. coal exports are rising this year, giving the fossil-fuel friendly Trump administration reason to cheer, but analysts believe the good times won't last. The surge in exports doesn't herald a...

  • Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro waves during a pro-government rally with workers of state-run oil company PDVSA, in Barcelona

    The Crisis in Venezuela Could Send Oil Prices Soaring

    By Nick Cunningham, Oilprice.com

    Venezuela’s deteriorating crisis is “going to be the biggest geopolitical story to watch in the oil markets," according to Helima Croft of RBC Capital Markets. The economic, political and security...

  • FILE PHOTO:  A sign is painted on a parking space for electric cars inside a car park in Hong Kong

    The Battery Problem That Could Slow the Electric Car Revolution

    By Zandi Shabalala, Reuters

    Producers of processed lithium - an essential element for batteries used in electric cars - are agreeing long-term contracts with their customers to fund the investments needed to address a looming...

  • A prototype of the Tesla Model 3 is on display in front of the factory during a media tour of the Tesla Gigafactory which will produce batteries for the electric carmaker in Sparks, Nevada, U.S. July 26, 2016.  REUTERS/James Glover II

    The Great Battery Battle: Tesla Sparks an Arms Race in Energy Storage

    By Ryan Browne, CNBC

    Elon Musk's car company Tesla appears to be leading the "arms race" for lithium-ion batteries — for now. Musk recently announced plans to build the world's biggest lithium-ion battery storage project...

  • ConocoPhillips profit lags Wall Street view

    ConocoPhillips profit lags Wall Street view

    By Reuters

    (Reuters) - ConocoPhillips <COP.N>, which is splitting into two stand-alone companies at the end of the month, reported a lower-than-expected quarterly profit, hurt by weak refining margins,...

  • Repsol warns potential YPF investors of lawsuits

    Repsol warns potential YPF investors of lawsuits

    By Reuters

    MADRID (Reuters) - Oil major Repsol <REP.MC> warned it could take legal action against companies that invest in YPF after Argentina seized control of the Spanish company's energy unit last week...

  • Insight: Outsider Ren pits Huawei against the world

    Insight: Outsider Ren pits Huawei against the world

    By Jeremy Wagstaff and Lee Chyen Yee, Reuters

    (Reuters) - In the 1990s, Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei visited the United States several times, hoping to learn from its leaders of industry about how to turn his Chinese telecoms equipment maker into a...

  • Will a Price Hike Result from Obama's Oil Plan?

    By DAVID SHEPPARD, Reuters

    Under Obama's request to Congress, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) would determine how much speculators need to pay to trade U.S. crude oil futures, in theory increasing the amount...

  • CEO Turns Chesapeake Energy into an ATM Machine

    By ANNA DRIVER and Brian Grow, Reuters

    A series of previously undisclosed loans to Aubrey K. McClendon could once again put Chesapeake's CEO and shareholders at odds. McClendon has borrowed as much as $1.1 billion in the last three years...