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The Great Oil Swindle
silentera.com The Great Oil Swindle Is leading us to destruction When it comes to the story we’re being told about America’s rosy oil prospects, we’re being swindled. At its core, the swindle is this: The shale industry’s oil production forecasts are vastly overstated. Swindle: Noun – A fraudulent scheme or action. And the swindle is not […]
The ‘Unknown Unknowns’ That Threaten U.S. Shale
The ‘Unknown Unknowns’ That Threaten U.S. Shale Three years after the oil price crash, the U.S. shale patch is on its second growth phase and is expected to continue to increase its production, at least through the next five years. The global oil markets have become increasingly dependent on U.S. tight oil supply—and the oil […]
Can The Gas Glut Kill The Permian Boom?
Can The Gas Glut Kill The Permian Boom? The Permian basin continues to add new oil production, but shale drillers in West Texas could face an unexpected problem: too much natural gas. Natural gas is produced as a byproduct when drilling for oil. Oil tends to be more lucrative, so shale companies typically target oil […]
The IEA Is Grossly Overestimating Shale Growth
The IEA Is Grossly Overestimating Shale Growth This week, the IEA said that U.S. shale would dominate the oil and gas markets over the next decade, rising to “a level 50 percent higher than any other country has ever managed.” With a “remarkable ability to unlock new resources cost-effectively,” U.S. shale will add millions of […]
U.S. SHALE OIL PRODUCTION UPDATE: Financial Carnage Continues To Gut Industry
U.S. SHALE OIL PRODUCTION UPDATE: Financial Carnage Continues To Gut Industry As the Mainstream media reports about the next phase of the glorious U.S. Shale Oil Revolution, the financial carnage continues to gut the industry deep down inside the entrails of its horizontal laterals. The stench of fracking fluid must be driving shale oil advocates utterly […]
How Has the US Fracking Boom Affected Air Pollution in Shale Areas?
How Has the US Fracking Boom Affected Air Pollution in Shale Areas? Urban air pollution in the U.S. has been decreasing near continuously since the 1970s. Federal regulations, notably the Clean Air Act passed by President Nixon, to reduce toxic air pollutants such as benzene, a hydrocarbon, and ozone, a strong oxidant, effectively lowered their abundance […]
How EIA Guestimates Keep Oil Prices Subdued
How EIA Guestimates Keep Oil Prices Subdued The EIA has once again undercut its previous estimates for U.S. oil production, offering further evidence that the U.S. shale industry is not producing as much as everyone thinks. The monthly EIA oil production figures tend to be more accurate than the weekly estimates, although they are published […]
Why The Shale Oil “Miracle” Is Becoming A “Debacle”
klublu/Shutterstock Why The Shale Oil “Miracle” Is Becoming A “Debacle” Dispelling the magical thinking behind the hype Energy is everything. This is an amazingly important concept. Yet it’s almost universally overlooked. Sometimes it’s hard to appreciate the magical role energy plays in our daily lives because most of what we experience is a derivative of […]
More Peak Shale: World’s Largest Miner Is Selling Its Shale Assets
More Peak Shale: World’s Largest Miner Is Selling Its Shale Assets Over the past several months, we have wondered if despite new all time high shale production, whether the US shale sector in the has peaked. Some of our recent thoughts can be found in the following articles: Why Some Hedge Funds Believe The Shale […]
The Latest Red Flag For U.S. Shale
The Latest Red Flag For U.S. Shale The U.S. shale industry has had a rough few weeks, with a growing number of reports suggesting that the industry is facing much more financial trouble than many analysts had expected. Now, a new report adds further evidence to the notion that shale is losing its luster in […]
Peak Shale: Anadarko Just Became The First US Oil Producer To Slash CapEx
Peak Shale: Anadarko Just Became The First US Oil Producer To Slash CapEx It appears that Horseman Global’s Russell Clark may have been spot on with his bearish take on the US shale sector. As a reminder, in his latest letter to investors, Clark said that “the rising decline rates of major US shale basins, […]
US Shale Production Just Hit A New All Time High
US Shale Production Just Hit A New All Time High One month ago, we reported that based on recent data, June oil output from shale producers would post the first double-digit production growth since July of 2015, when oil prices tumbled and a substantial portion of US production was briefly taken offline. While the final […]
Will Central Banks Derail The Shale Boom?
Will Central Banks Derail The Shale Boom? The U.S. Federal Reserve has already increased interest rates several times, most recently in June, with promises to do much more. Rate hikes pose a problem for the oil industry, which has used debt to underpin a drilling boom across the U.S. shale patch. Higher rates could raise […]
What’s Wrong With The U.S. Oil Export Boom
What’s Wrong With The U.S. Oil Export Boom The lead editorial in Friday’s Wall Street Journal was pure energy nonsense.’ “Lessons of the Energy Export Boom” proclaimed that the United States is becoming the oil and gas superpower of the world. This despite the uncomfortable fact that it is also the world’s biggest importer of […]
