Oil falls 2% on Powell comments, hopes for Venezuela supply
After hitting seven-week highs, oil prices slumped 2% on Tuesday as Reuters...
After hitting seven-week highs, oil prices slumped 2% on Tuesday as Reuters reported that the United States could ease some restrictions on Venezuela's government, raising hopes that the market could see some additional supplies.
Prices also fell after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell warned the economy could be hurt by attempts to reduce inflation.
For the first time since May 2020, the Brent international benchmark settled below U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude. Refiners worldwide have scrambled to find alternative energy supplies after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. U.S. reserves are falling and that has raised the price for U.S.-based crudes, said Andrew Lipow, president of Lipow Oil Associates in Houston.
Brent crude fell $2.31, or 2%, to settle at $111.93 a barrel, and U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude fell $1.8, or 1.6%, to settle at $112.40 a barrel.
Okla. engineering school aims to ease industry labor shortage
The University of Oklahoma's Mewbourne College of Earth and Energy hopes to boost enrollment...
The University of Oklahoma's Mewbourne College of Earth and Energy hopes to boost enrollment for oil-related majors to help address the industry's labor shortage. "As we study the needs of the industry, we found we needed to pivot and develop a new petroleum engineer," says college dean Mike Stice.
Stice said enrollment in the school’s college had fallen from 1,400 to a current 377, with 80 set to graduate.
“The real issue we’ve had our entire careers is the cyclical nature of the industry,” he said, explaining one issue impacting the ability to attract students to engineering. Students worry if they will have a job when they graduate, he explained, and when that job isn’t available, they’ll choose alternate careers.
MarketWatch: Dow ends up 430 points Tuesday, after Fed's Powell says a 'softish' economic landing is possible
U.S. stocks finished sharply higher Tuesday after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said a "softish...
U.S. stocks finished sharply higher Tuesday after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said a "softish landing" for the economy still was possible. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, 1.34% advanced about 431 points, or 1.3%, ending near 32,655, up for a third straight day in a row. It also marked the biggest daily percentage jump for the blue-chip index since its 1.5% gain on Friday, according to FactSet. The S&P 500 index SPX, 2.02% rose 2%, while the Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, 2.76% closed 2.8% higher. Powell said there are a number of plausible paths to slowing inflation without sparking a recession, even if it causes Americans some pain, while speaking in an afternoon talk at The Wall Street Journal's Future of Everything event. U.S. retail sales also painted a picture of a healthy economic backdrop, rising 0.9% in April, slightly below the 1% advance forecast by economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal. But shares of Walmart Inc. WMT, -11.35% shed more than 11% after the retail giant reported fiscal first-quarter profit that missed expectations.
The energy sector is pointing to a higher start, backed by some mild strength in the crude complex and...
The energy sector is pointing to a higher start, backed by some mild strength in the crude complex and major equity futures which were sharply higher this morning as the market tried to bounce after a punishing bear market for the tech-heavy Nasdaq and a 19% pullback for the S&P 500.
WTI and Brent crude oil futures extended their advance this morning for the fifth consecutive session, touching their highest mark in seven weeks. Futures are supported by the European Union's ongoing push for a ban on Russian oil imports that would tighten supply and as investors focused on higher demand from an easing of China's COVID lockdowns.
Natural gas futures carried over yesterday’s rally into this morning’s session, backed by higher European prices keeping U.S. LNG exports strong even though Europe has more gas in storage compared with normal than the United States.
West Texas rancher pours $2 million into Sarah Stogner’s campaign for oil and gas board seat
Ashley Watt, who owns a 75,000-acre ranch in the Permian Basin, is helping bankroll...
Ashley Watt, who owns a 75,000-acre ranch in the Permian Basin, is helping bankroll a substantial TV ad buy in the final two weeks before Sarah Stogner faces the Railroad Commission’s chair, Wayne Christian, in the runoff.
It is another striking twist in a race that Stogner, an oil and gas attorney, previously shook up in the primary when she released a campaign ad of herself riding a pumpjack nearly naked.
