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OPEC Production Cut May Not Be Needed After All
OPEC Production Cut May Not Be Needed After All U.S. tight oil production may fall 600,000 barrels per day by June 2015 based on reasonable projections of current rig counts. I compared the decrease in rig counts that began in late 2014 to the rig count decrease in 2008 and 2009 following the Financial Crisis. […]
The Chilling Thing Devon Energy Just Said About the US Oil Glut
The Chilling Thing Devon Energy Just Said About the US Oil Glut The oil-price plunge hit the industry when it was drunk on its own exuberance and awash in money. At the time, over-indebted junk-rated drillers had no trouble borrowing even more to drill more, efficiently or not. Dreadful IPOs flew off the shelf. Misbegotten […]
Money Is Bailing Out of Canada
Money Is Bailing Out of Canada The floodgates opened in December. Perhaps it had something to do with oil, Canada’s number one export product, whose price went into free-fall in November and triggered extensive bloodletting in the Canadian oil patch. Or perhaps foreign investors got spooked by something else. Until then, they’d been sanguine: from […]
Oil Price Crash – What Next?
Oil Price Crash – What Next? In the fast moving oil market much of the fundamental data only becomes available for general consumption at least one month in arrears. But EIA oil price data and Baker Hughes rig counts are available weekly and with much action going on it is worthwhile updating. The price plunge seems to have reversed, […]
Layoffs, Spending Cuts Permeate Alberta’s Oilpatch On Quarterly Results
Layoffs, Spending Cuts Permeate Alberta’s Oilpatch On Quarterly Results CALGARY – There was a splattering of red ink in the oilpatch Thursday, as the steep drop in oil prices weighed on the bottom lines of some of the energy sector’s biggest names in the last three months of 2014. Oilsands producer Cenovus Energy Inc. (TSX:CVE) […]
Oil Searching For A Bottom As Union Threatens More Walkouts
Oil Searching For A Bottom As Union Threatens More Walkouts The strike at US refineries got a bit bigger over the weekend – all amid the mostvolatile, and now downward, price swings seen in the last six years. Investors have yet to lose hope in a sustainable rebound, but another prolonged fall may be looming […]
Oil Plunge Hits Office Market, But “So Far” No Apocalypse
Oil Plunge Hits Office Market, But “So Far” No Apocalypse “Here in Houston a number of projects have been canceled. Engineers are put on ‘hold.’ There have been some contract engineers laid off, and hiring has been suspended. Everyone is waiting for the other shoe to drop.” That’s how an engineer in the energy sector […]
Why We Won’t See An Oil Price Rebound Yet
Why We Won’t See An Oil Price Rebound Yet The front page of The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, February 10 proclaimed “Oil-Price Rebound Predicted” according to the IEA (International Energy Agency). Not true. The February 10 IEA Oil Market Report states that some “market participants are seeing light at the end of the tunnel” based on oil company […]
Goldman Warns “Don’t Count On Rig Declines To Balance The Oil Market Just Yet”
Goldman Warns “Don’t Count On Rig Declines To Balance The Oil Market Just Yet” With WTI back under $50 once again (the mainstream media’s new Maginot Line for oil complex stability – just like $80, $70, and $60 was), it appears more investors are waking up to the reality of an over-supplied, under-demanded global energy […]
Cheaper oil will not boost global growth, says Moody’s
Cheaper oil will not boost global growth, says Moody’s Lower oil prices will fail to give a “significant boost” to global growth in the next two years, Moody’s has said. The ratings agency said any boost from cheaper oil would be offset by the eurozone’s economic woes as well as slowdowns in China, Japan and […]
Oil slips below $56 on expectations oversupply to linger
Oil slips below $56 on expectations oversupply to linger (Reuters) – Oil slipped below $56 a barrel on Wednesday, pressured by expectations that oversupply in world markets would persist and an industry report saying U.S. crude stocks rose from a record high. The American Petroleum Institute said on Tuesday crude stocks increased by 1.6 million barrels last week. […]
If You Listen Carefully, The Bankers Are Actually Telling Us What Is Going To Happen Next
If You Listen Carefully, The Bankers Are Actually Telling Us What Is Going To Happen Next Are we on the verge of a major worldwide economic downturn? Well, if recent warnings from prominent bankers all over the world are to be believed, that may be precisely what we are facing in the months ahead. As […]
Energy market madness is the death spasm of the oil age – renewables now!
Energy market madness is the death spasm of the oil age – renewables now! Current oil price volatility is a symptom of the end of cheap oil, writes Nafeez Ahmed, and it’s destablising the entire global economy. The answer is a major shift to renewables – but the the International Energy Agency, which should be […]
Wall Street Has a Dream About the Price of Oil
Wall Street Has a Dream About the Price of Oil The price of oil has bounced 20% since January 29 when the benchmark West Texas Intermediate had dipped below $44 a barrel, but according to Edward Morse, Citigroup’s global head of commodity research, that dizzying bounce is a “head-fake.” Because the fundamentals are still terrible. Oil production […]
Another 5,000 Victims Of The Plunge In Oil Prices
Another 5,000 Victims Of The Plunge In Oil Prices Yet another energy company is struggling to save money in the face of unexpectedly low oil prices. Weatherford International, one of the world’s largest oilfield services company, will cut 9 percent of its global workforce in the next two months to save more than $350 million […]
