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Permian Drillers Prepare To Go Into Overdrive In 2019
Permian Drillers Prepare To Go Into Overdrive In 2019 In recent months, pipeline capacity shortage in the Permian has been the center of shale drillers and oil analysts’ attention as much as the surging production from this fastest-growing U.S. oil region that has helped total American crude oil production to exceed 11 million bpd for […]
OPEC+ Floats 1 Million Barrel Production Cut After Oil Price Tumbles Into Bear Market
OPEC+ Floats 1 Million Barrel Production Cut After Oil Price Tumbles Into Bear Market With oil prices entering a bear market last week, tumbling 21% from recent highs as it became clear that Trump will significantly water down Iran oil export sanctions by granting waivers to its 8 largest clients even as US inventory stockpiles […]
U.S. Shale Has A Glaring Problem
U.S. Shale Has A Glaring Problem Oil prices are down a bit, but are still close to multi-year highs. That should leave the shale industry flush with cash. However, a long list of U.S. shale companies are still struggling to turn a profit. A new report from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis […]
U.S. Shale’s Glory Days Are Numbered
U.S. Shale’s Glory Days Are Numbered There are some early signs that the U.S. shale industry is starting to show its age, with depletion rates on the rise. A study from Wood Mackenzie found that some wells in the Permian Wolfcamp were suffering from decline rates at or above 15 percent after five years, much […]
$100 Oil Is A Distinct Possibility
$100 Oil Is A Distinct Possibility An oil price spike is starting to look increasingly possible, with a rerun of 2008 not entirely out of the question, according to a new report. The outages from Iran are worse than most analysts expected, and bottlenecks in the U.S. shale patch could prevent non-OPEC supply from plugging […]
Is The Shale Slowdown Overblown?
Is The Shale Slowdown Overblown? The shale industry has hit a bit of a rough patch, with pipeline bottlenecks, cost inflation and a crowded field contributing to a drilling and production slowdown. But many in the industry are confident that the lull will be temporary. There are several strategies that shale companies are starting to […]
America’s Oil Boom Is a Fraud
America’s Oil Boom Is a Fraud PARIS – We promised to end the week with a bang! You’ll recall that Fed policy always consists of the same three mistakes… 1) Keeping interest rates too low for too long, resulting in too much debt; 2) Raising interest rates to try to gently deflate the debt bubble; […]
Shale Won’t Trigger The Next Financial Crisis
Shale Won’t Trigger The Next Financial Crisis Many think that debt and negative cash flow by U.S. shale companies will crash the global financial system. I believe the opposite is more likely, that a developing financial crisis may crash oil prices and test the survival of shale plays. In The Next Financial Crisis Lurks Underground, […]
No Fracking Way: Debt-Laden Shale Producers May Unleash The Next Financial Crisis
No Fracking Way: Debt-Laden Shale Producers May Unleash The Next Financial Crisis After nearly two decades of horizontal drilling, fracking – as it is commonly known, has “turned the energy world upside down,” according to Journalist Bethany McLean, a former Goldman Sachs analyst-turned-journalist. And according to a new op-ed in the New York Times, McLean has a warning for […]
The Coming Collapse Of U.S. Shale Oil Production
The Coming Collapse Of U.S. Shale Oil Production The death of U.S. Energy Independence will occur when the collapse of shale oil production begins. And when U.S. shale oil production finally peaks and declines, it could fall much more rapidly than we realize. The rate at which U.S. shale oil production declines in the future […]
The Productivity Problem In The Permian
The Productivity Problem In The Permian The multi-year campaign to boost efficiency and productivity in the U.S. shale patch could be nearing its limits. Output in the Permian basin is already starting to slowdown, largely due to pipeline constraints. However, there is also a series of other data points that suggests that shale drillers are […]
Top U.S. Shale Oil Fields Decline Rate Reaches New Record…. Half Million Barrels Per Day
Top U.S. Shale Oil Fields Decline Rate Reaches New Record…. Half Million Barrels Per Day While the U.S. reached a new record of 11 million barrels of oil production per day last week, the top five shale oil fields also suffered the highest monthly decline rate ever. This is bad news for the U.S. shale […]
OPEC production increase shows it’s still fighting U.S. shale oil
OPEC production increase shows it’s still fighting U.S. shale oil It felt like opposite day as traders bid up the price of oil last week even as OPEC announced an increase in oil production that should have sent prices downward. The cartel decided it had room to move because of outages in Venezuela, Libya and […]
IEA: Oil Prices Could Rise Further As Shale Can’t Fill The Gap
IEA: Oil Prices Could Rise Further As Shale Can’t Fill The Gap U.S. shale will continue its breakneck growth rate into 2019, despite bottlenecks, but the oil market still faces serious supply risks from the potential losses from Venezuela and Iran, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in a new report. The IEA said that […]
