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Gulf States Not Willing To Cut Production Despite Asset Depletion
Gulf States Not Willing To Cut Production Despite Asset Depletion The oil exporting countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) are likely to report twin deficits due to the downturn in oil prices and a supply glut that could expand, but even as assets are being depleted at an alarming rate none is in enough trouble to […]
Shale Set To Decline Substantially This Year
Shale Set To Decline Substantially This Year U.S. shale has weathered the oil crash better than many expected, but the stubborn persistence of low prices through 2016 could amount to the “straw breaking the camel’s back” for shale production. The International Energy Agency released its Medium Term Oil Market Report on February 22 at the IHS CERA […]
The Danger Of Low Oil Prices For The Global Economy
The Danger Of Low Oil Prices For The Global Economy Oilprice.com wanted to check in with Dr. John C. Edmunds, a Professor of Finance at Babson College, to get his thoughts on the OPEC deal, oil markets, and some developments in Latin America. He is an expert in international finance, capital markets, foreign exchange risk, and […]
Panic Below The Surface: “Banks Are Selling Energy Loans At Cents On The Dollar To Ensure Their Own Survival”
Panic Below The Surface: “Banks Are Selling Energy Loans At Cents On The Dollar To Ensure Their Own Survival” One week ago, when we commented on the latest weekly update from Credit Suisse’s very well hooked-in energy analyst James Wicklund, one particular phrase stuck out when looking at the upcoming contraction of Oil and Gas liquidity: “while […]
First Iran, Now Iraq Refuses To Commit To Oil Production Freeze
First Iran, Now Iraq Refuses To Commit To Oil Production Freeze For all the euphoria about the proposed OPEC oil production freeze deal, the reality is that nothing has been actually decided. As readers will recall, the only “decisions” agreed to between the Saudi and Russian oil ministers were to cap production at already record […]
Why Tomorrow’s “Secret” Meeting Between Russian, Saudi Oil Ministers Will Not Lead To A Cut In Production
Why Tomorrow’s “Secret” Meeting Between Russian, Saudi Oil Ministers Will Not Lead To A Cut In Production For the past two weeks recurring flashing red headlines of an agreement, or at least a meeting, between Russia and Saudi Arabia – the world’s two largest oil producers – have led to aggressive short-covering rallies in oil […]
World outside US and Canada doesn’t produce more crude oil than in 2005
World outside US and Canada doesn’t produce more crude oil than in 2005 After a delay of several months the US Energy Information Administration has published the latest international energy statistics for October 2015 This is an opportunity to update crude oil graphs http://crudeoilpeak.info/latest-graphs Fig 1: World’s incremental crude oil production How Fig 1 is created: for […]
Moments After Oil Crashes To 12 Year Lows, “OPEC Headline” Sends It Surging Again
Moments After Oil Crashes To 12 Year Lows, “OPEC Headline” Sends It Surging Again Seconds after Oil hit the lows and NYMEX closed – and S&P broke the critical 1812 level, this hit: *OPEC READY TO COOPERATE ON CUT, UAE ENERGY MIN SAYS: WSJ Here is the source: Summer Said ✔@summer_said OPEC is ready to […]
OPEC Will Not Blink First
OPEC Will Not Blink First An OPEC production cut is unlikely until U.S. production declines by about another million barrels per day (mmbpd). OPEC won’t cut because it would accomplish nothing beyond a short-term increase in price. Carefully placed comments by OPEC and Russian oil ministers about the possibility of production cuts achieve almost the […]
BP’s Stunning Warning: “Every Oil Storage Tank Will Be Full In A Few Months”
BP’s Stunning Warning: “Every Oil Storage Tank Will Be Full In A Few Months” It was just last week when we said that Cushing may be about to overflow in the face of an acute crude oil supply glut. “Even the highly adaptive US storage system appears to be reaching its limits,” we wrote, before plotting Cushing […]
Deutsche Bank Is Scared: “What Needs To Be Done” In Its Own Words
Deutsche Bank Is Scared: “What Needs To Be Done” In Its Own Words It all started in mid/late 2014, when the first whispers of a Fed rate hike emerged, which in turn led to relentless increase in the value of the US dollar and the plunge in the price of oil and all commodities, unleashing […]
Venezuela fails to persuade Saudis to cut oil production
Venezuela fails to persuade Saudis to cut oil production Meeting called ‘successful,’ but no word of agreement to help boost prices AFP/Getty ImagesVenezuela’s minister of petroleum and mining, Eulogio Del Pino, seen in December. DUBAI — Saudi oil minister Ali al-Naimi met with his Venezuelan counterpart on Sunday but didn’t announce any plans for the […]
North Dakota’s Economy Has Been “Completely Devastated” By Oil’s Collapse
North Dakota’s Economy Has Been “Completely Devastated” By Oil’s Collapse Yesterday, on the way to documenting the malaise China’s hard landing has inflicted on Minnesota’s mining country, we discussed the dramatic impact falling crude prices have had on the American and Canadian oil patches. Take Texas, for instance, where a year of crude carnage has wreaked havoc […]
