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Skeptic Geologist Warns: Permian’s Best Years Are Behind Us

May 14, 2018

Skeptic Geologist Warns: Permian’s Best Years Are Behind Us Geologist Arthur Berman, who has been skeptical about the shale boom, warned on Thursday that the Permian’s best years are gone and that the most productive U.S. shale play has just seven years of proven oil reserves left. “The best years are behind us,” Bloomberg quoted […]

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Will Central Banks Derail The Shale Boom?

June 30, 2017

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 […]

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Revisiting the Shale Oil Hype: Technology versus Geology

March 31, 2015

Revisiting the Shale Oil Hype: Technology versus Geology The press has been all abuzz the past few weeks speculating on what the drop in oil prices will mean for U.S. shale oil (tight oil) production. Pundits have been falling over themselves quoting various estimates of the breakeven cost of production in this play or that, […]

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Three Reasons Why US Shale Isn’t Going Anywhere

March 5, 2015

Three Reasons Why US Shale Isn’t Going Anywhere Have you ever noticed that during extreme economic cycles, when trends are roaring on the upside, or conversely crashing back down to earth, there often appears an air of extremism in news headlines? Take America’s most recent shale oil boom, and bust, for example. On the way […]

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Will US Shale Boom Continue Or Have A Hiatus?

February 25, 2015

Will US Shale Boom Continue Or Have A Hiatus? The conventional wisdom recently has been that North America will keep producing shale oil for some time despite the higher costs associated with hydraulic fracturing and the 50 percent drop in oil prices over the past eight months. The thing about conventional wisdom is that it […]

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