Wall Street has a blind spot the size of a supertanker — and it’s called the energy sector. In a recent wide-ranging interview on Kitco News, veteran investor Ted Oakley, founder and managing partner of Oxbow Advisors, sat down with anchor Jeremy Szafron and delivered a blunt assessment: Wall Street is completely mispricing energy. Oakley […]
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U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced on May 19 that the Blue Point low-carbon ammonia project in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, is advancing rapidly under streamlined permitting. The roughly $3.7–4 billion facility is expected to become the world’s largest ammonia production plant by nameplate capacity. According to Secretary Rollins’ post on X, permitting for the […]
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At GE Vernova’s annual shareholder meeting this week, activist investors are pressing the company for greater financial accountability on its wind power business and broader sustainability commitments. The push comes as the company’s Wind segment continues to post significant losses amid softening orders, project challenges, and shifting U.S. policy on subsidies—issues that extend beyond GE […]
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Houston, TX – May 17, 2026 – Caturus LLC announced a positive Final Investment Decision (FID) on May 15 for its Commonwealth LNG export facility in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, unlocking full construction on one of the most cost-competitive and efficient LNG projects in the United States. The $13 billion project, backed by $9.75 billion in […]
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The explosive growth of artificial intelligence is rewriting the rules of energy demand. Hyperscale data centers powering AI training and inference are projected to consume vast amounts of electricity—much of it reliably supplied by natural gas-fired generation. Yet the real enablers aren’t the chipmakers or the hyperscalers themselves. They are the midstream operators who own […]
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The AI gold rush is in full swing. Hyperscalers like Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta are pouring hundreds of billions into data centers, chips, and infrastructure to power the next wave of artificial intelligence. NVIDIA just posted record revenues driven almost entirely by AI demand. Yet one question looms large for investors and energy markets […]
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Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil producer, is embarking on its most ambitious privatization and asset monetization drive in its 93-year history. The company aims to raise up to $35 billion by opening midstream, downstream, and non-core assets to Wall Street investors through sale-leaseback deals, minority stake sales, and infrastructure partnerships. This move is explicitly […]
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In a decisive move that underscores its strategic pivot amid ongoing regional tensions and its recent departure from OPEC, the United Arab Emirates is accelerating infrastructure to dramatically expand its oil export capacity, bypassing the Strait of Hormuz. On May 15, 2026, Abu Dhabi’s Crown Prince Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan directed […]
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Canada’s manufacturing and industrial base is in freefall under Prime Minister Mark J. Carney’s leadership. A viral X post from @wealthmoose on May 14, 2026, lays out the stark reality with receipts: over $50 billion in planned investments have been canceled, moved, or evaporated in key auto, battery, and manufacturing projects across Ontario and Quebec. […]
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Eleven weeks into the Middle East conflict that has effectively shuttered the Strait of Hormuz and sent energy prices soaring, the correlation between the Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index and Brent crude futures has hit its highest level on record. This marks the strongest daily tandem movement between the greenback and oil in more than two […]
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