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Gulf Markets Melting Down: Saudi Arabia Plunges 7%, Dubai Sold
Gulf Markets Melting Down: Saudi Arabia Plunges 7%, Dubai Sold Following the end of a horrible week for petroleum importers (not to mention shale producers) despite WTI briefly dipping under $40 (wasn’t this supposed to be great news for the US economy?) we have the start of a just as ugly week for the Persian […]
Has The E&P Industry Lost Touch With Reality?
Has The E&P Industry Lost Touch With Reality? The U.S. rig count increased by 19 this week as oil prices dropped below $48 per barrel–the latest sign that the E&P industry is out of touch with reality. Getty Images from The New York Times (July 26, 2015) The last time the rig count increased this […]
Bearish News For Oil Growing By The Day
Bearish News For Oil Growing By The Day Oil hit its lowest point in two months on July 1, falling on a combination of market turmoil and bearish oil figures. WTI dipped below $57 and Brent dropped to around $62 per barrel, breaking out of a narrow range within which the two benchmarks have been […]
Oil Price Recovery May Be Too Much Too Soon
Oil Price Recovery May Be Too Much Too Soon Oil prices have hit their highest levels in 2015, with WTI surging above $60 per barrel. Crude oil inventories in the U.S. declined for the first time since December 2014, perhaps indicating that the glut could be easing. The EIA reported that oil stockpiles fell by 3.9 million […]
Top 12 Media Myths On Oil Prices
Top 12 Media Myths On Oil Prices The upstream oil and gas industry is not a black hole. There’s no mystery wrapped in an enigma here. There are a lot of meetings with engineers, chemists and geologists. There’s a constantly evolving learning curve. And then there’s all the regulations and compliance. But all-in-all it’s pretty […]
Low Oil Prices Not Enough To Kill Off Oil Sands, Yet
Low Oil Prices Not Enough To Kill Off Oil Sands, Yet On Friday I visited the University of Alberta in Edmonton, where falling oil prices have brought a record provincial budget deficit despite aggressive tax increases and spending cuts. Here I pass along some of what I learned about how the plunge in oil prices is affecting […]
Just as Global Oil Glut Deepens, China Cuts Oil Imports
Just as Global Oil Glut Deepens, China Cuts Oil Imports “We don’t want to lose our share in the market,” Kuwait Oil Minister Ali al-Omair said on Thursday. OPEC had to maintain production despite the plunge in price since last summer, he said, underscoring Saudi Arabia’s position. OPEC would not cut production to goose prices. […]
Kuwait “Over-Supply” Concerns Send WTI Tumbling Back To $42 Handle
Kuwait “Over-Supply” Concerns Send WTI Tumbling Back To $42 Handle Reversing all of yesterday’s FOMC-inspired idiocy, WTI has plunged back to reality this morning. Following comments by Kuwait’s comments that OPEC had no choice but to keep production steady, refocusing the market on global oversupply, April WTI is back down to a $42 handle. All of […]
Investors Crushed as US Natural Gas Drillers Blow Up
Investors Crushed as US Natural Gas Drillers Blow Up The Fed speaks, the dollar crashes. The dollar was ripe. The entire world had been bullish on it. Down nearly 3% against the euro, before recovering some. The biggest drop since March 2009. Everything else jumped. Stocks, Treasuries, gold, even oil. West Texas Intermediate had been […]
WTI Slumps To New Cycle Lows As Iran Supply Fears Loom
WTI Slumps To New Cycle Lows As Iran Supply Fears Loom Just a few short days ago we were the first to bring attention to the potential of an Iran nuclear deal being a catalyst for the next big leg lower in the energy complex and sure enough, not only is the market startuing to leg lower […]
Rig Count Drops For 14th Week In A Row, Fastest Rate In 29 Years
Rig Count Drops For 14th Week In A Row, Fastest Rate In 29 Years For the 14th week in a row, the US rig count fell 67 rigs to 1125, (a 5.6% drop to 41.4%, bigger than March 09’s previous record 14-week decline of 41%). The decline in rigs contionues to tyrack the lagged oil price perfectly but […]
Could Oil Prices Plummet A Second Time?
Could Oil Prices Plummet A Second Time? Are oil prices heading for a double dip? The surge in shale production has produced a temporary glut in supplies causing oil prices to experience a massive bust. After tanking to a low of $44 per barrel in January, falling rig counts and enormous reductions in exploration budgets have fueled […]
Here’s What Will Send Oil Prices Back Up Again
Here’s What Will Send Oil Prices Back Up Again Oil’s rapid decline since August of last year has been dramatic. To listen to some commentators you would also think it is unprecedented and irreversible. Those claiming that oil will continue to fall from here and remain low for evermore, however, are flying in the face […]
Oil Prices Most Volatile Since 2009
Oil Prices Most Volatile Since 2009 The nearly 20 percent rally in oil prices over the past week raised hopes in the oil industry that the financial bloodshed might be over. But hopes were quickly dashed on February 4 when prices erased much of their gains – March deliveries of WTI dropped by a whopping 8 percent in a […]
Why Oil Won’t Go Below $40
Why Oil Won’t Go Below $40 When I made my energy predictions for 2015, I made some very aggressive predictions. Perhaps the most aggressive was that the closing price of West Texas Intermediate would not fall below $40/barrel (bbl) in 2015. Why do I consider this a particularly aggressive prediction? Because on the day I made […]
