0DDavid Blackmon· Reporting · 5 min · Aug 29, 2026StoryAmerica’s Greatest Show On Earth — Counted In Barrels Of Venezuelan CrudeThere are oil deals, and then there are mega-oil deals. We’ve seen many examples of mega-deals in the past: Exxon buying Mobil and Chevron gobbling up Texaco in the late 1990s; more recently, Oxy’s buyout of Anadarko Petroleum and ExxonMobil’s purchase of Pioneer Natural Resources would qualify.0 commentsShare
0DDavid Blackmon· Opinion · 5 min · Aug 26, 2026StoryUncle Sam’s Aggressive Rare Earth Dealmaking Strikes A Chord OverseasIn June of 2021, President Joe Biden announced that his administration would mount a "whole of government" effort to secure U.S. supplies and supply chains related to a raft of critical energy minerals.0 commentsShare
0DDavid Blackmon· Opinion · 5 min · Aug 22, 2026StoryIt Is Absurd To Think China Will Ever Abandon CoalSince the approval of the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015 by every nation on earth except the United States, the ever-compliant global media has flooded newsprint, airwaves and digital space with narratives that China is moving away from coal.0 commentsShare
0DDavid Blackmon· Reporting · 4 min · Aug 19, 2026StoryChris Wright’s Latest Quest Shows America Needs More RefineriesEnergy Secretary Chris Wright met with executives from refining companies on Monday to explore ways the Trump administration could help them boost throughput volumes to help keep America’s gasoline and diesel market fully supplied. The meeting took place in Midland, Texas during an industry conference Wright was attending.0 commentsShare
0DDavid Blackmon· Opinion · 4 min · Aug 15, 2026StoryNew Climate Study Seeks To Punish AI Companies For Their ExcellenceJust when you think the climate alarm industry could not possibly get any more absurd than it has already become, they go and prove you wrong again.0 commentsShare
0DDavid Blackmon· Opinion · 5 min · Aug 12, 2026StoryIt’s A Huge Rare Metal Discovery For America, But Claiming The Prize Isn’t So EasyNevada’s Railroad Valley is home to a tungsten deposit that could be the largest ever found in the United States. Developer 3 Proton Lithium (3PL) reports an inferred resource of 1.78 million tons, making the resource more than five times bigger than the next known domestic deposit, with an in-situ value pegged around $152 billion at current prices.0 commentsShare
0DDavid Blackmon· Opinion · 5 min · Aug 8, 2026StoryDetroit Gets Front Row Seat To China’s Slow Execution Of German AutoGermany’s once-mighty auto industry is trembling under pressure that strikes at the heart of that country’s national psyche.0 commentsShare
0DDavid Blackmon· Opinion · 5 min · Aug 5, 2026StoryCan This New CEO Save BP From Its Own Past?Amid a series of record and near-record profits being reported by the world’s corporate major integrated oil companies, venerable British major BP announced this week its intent to sell off its position in the UK-governed portion of the North Sea.0 commentsShare
0DDavid Blackmon· Reporting · 5 min · Aug 1, 2026StoryLost in the Iran Noise: American Energy Leadership Still MattersLost in the breathless media coverage of Iran and the Strait of Hormuz is a critical reality that too many politicians, activists and talking heads prefer to ignore: Record U.S. oil and natural gas production has helped keep a historic supply disruption from becoming a far worse price shock. American energy leadership still matters. And if we want it to keep mattering, we need to stop shooting ourselves in the foot.0 commentsShare
0DDavid Blackmon· Opinion · 5 min · Jul 29, 2026StoryLawfare’s Fingerprints Are All Over National Academies’ Landmark Climate ReportThe National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine just released a major report on extreme event attribution science, the increasingly trendy climate alarmism field that tries to pin specific hurricanes, heat waves, or floods on human-caused climate change and, more importantly, on the oil and gas companies activists love to sue.0 commentsShare
0DDavid Blackmon· Opinion · 5 min · Jul 25, 2026StoryWhen OPEC Quotas Don’t Matter AnymoreLost in much of the discussion about the current global deficit of crude oil is a new reality that had been brewing for some time even before the Iran Conflict began on March 1: The fact that OPEC — and its bigger sister, OPEC+ — has lost its teeth.0 commentsShare
0DDavid Blackmon· Opinion · 5 min · Jul 22, 2026StoryNew Houthi Threat Makes Future Of Oil Prices Look Even UglierOil prices are surging again amid renewed fighting between the U.S. and Iran that has again halted tanker traffic via the Strait of Hormuz.0 commentsShare
