Oil & Gas

The gold/oil ratio is recognized as a sort of canary in a coal mine, giving advance warning of turbulence ahead and, for the first time in 3 years, the ratio is below 20-to-1 compared to its historical average of 15-to-1. Were it to go above 20-to-1, making gold too expensive or oil too cheap, and we would be in crisis mode.

Today we have identified five TSX oil stocks that have industry-leading netbacks (the profit per barrel of oil) and could power even higher with increasing crude oil prices.

This article compares a key small-cap producer against its peers (with a 90% or higher production mix of natural gas to oil), to see which of the companies is best positioned to surge from rising natural gas prices.

OPEC surprised the market with 90% output compliance in January and similar compliance results are expected in February as the United Arab Emirates and Iraq also catch up with their targets. That being the case, we have identified 5 oil juniors who would benefit most from a continued rise in prices.

Below is an infographic presenting a crash course in the need for, problems with, and benefits of, building the Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta, Canada through the American midwest to the refineries in Texas.

The Economist Intelligence Unit has produced its first global forecast since the Brexit vote. Please find below their forecasts for commodities until 2020.

Today's infographic serves as the perfect primer for all the questions about oil that you had, yet were afraid to ask. It also illustrates the impact that unexpected geopolitical events can have on the oil price – and how this volatility can be contagious to other global markets.

Oil is now cheaper than coffee, milk, and even bottled water. Really! Take a look at the price comparisons in the chart below.

Using the data provided by Barclays commodities analyst Michael Cohen, we put together a list of the 10 countries sitting on the greatest amounts of proven crude oil reserves (bbl). Check them out below.

The price of oil is currently undergoing a major decline but it is nothing compared to other famous oil slumps in history. Let's take a look.