Joel South

Shale plays are allowing independent E&P oil companies like Continental Resources and EOG Resources to take on Big Oil companies. Without scale, Royal Dutch Shell is out of shale.

Encana is cutting its dividend and cutting its workforce in an effort to conserve cash. Chesapeake Energy recently deployed this strategy effectively, can Encana do the same?

Halcon Resources and Denbury Resources announced earnings and investors should take note of these long term plays.

With reforms in Pemex, big oil companies such as ExxonMobil and Halliburton and offshore drillers such as Transocean and Noble are likely to benefit.

Southern Company is having more issues with its clean coal power plant. This spells trouble for thermal coal companies including Arch Coal and James River Coal Company.

CARBO ceramics turned in a quarter for the ages. How did they do it?

ConocoPhillips and Suncor Energy are up for earnings. Here is what you need to look for.

BP turned in a solid third quarter, should investors buy into the hype?

Cabot Oil & Gas and EQT Corp showed they can make money in this depressed natural gas environment.

With WTI-Brent crude prices moving in opposite directions, companies like HollyFrontier, Valero, and Tesoro are looking to return to 2012 form.

U.S. energy policy needs to look inward and deal with the lack of pipelines. TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline should be in focus, especially if the pipeline allows crude from the Bakken. This would be good news for Continental Resources.

Clean Energy Fuels and Westport Innovations could be long-term winners as more natural-gas-powered vehicles start hitting the roads.

Today Joel South looks at the long term potential of Noble Energy.

Activist investors laid their thumb print on Chesapeake Energy and SandRidge Energy this past year. Is Occidental Petroleum or Apache Corp. Next?

Halliburton, Baker Hughes, and Schlumberger have all turned in third-quarter earnings. While North America is still struggling for the service providers, the future remains bright.

40 years after the OPEC oil embargo, the game has changed quite a bit.

Continental Resources CEO Harold Hamm thinks the Bakken can produce 2 million barrels per day. Can it be done?

With Halliburton's earnings release coming up soon, don't look at rig count as the tell-all for the industry.

Canada needs to find new partners after finding no end users for its massive supply of natural gas.

SolarCity and SunPower are still strong investments in the renewable energy space.