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• Supermajors Prepare For A Permian Bidding War

  Published 14 September 2017 | viewed 18,965 times

  BHP announced their plans to divest their U.S. shale assets, including a 123,000-acre position in the heart of the Delaware Basin. This acreage position, in…

• Can OPEC Keep Its Nerve?

  Published 11 June 2017 | viewed 23,247 times

  The recent OPEC agreement to extend production cuts for a further nine months has had a mixed response from industry commentators. For some, it’s an…

• Bearish News For Natural Gas As Inventories Continue To Rise

  Published 11 June 2017 | viewed 15,513 times

  Natural gas storage inventories increased by 106 Bcf for the week ended June 2, per EIA. The report is bearish with the build coming above…

• The World’s Third Largest Oil Consumer Aims To Drastically Reduce Imports

  Published 07 June 2017 | viewed 39,555 times

  India, the world’s third largest oil consumer, imports about 82 percent of its crude oil requirements, and meets just 18 percent of its demand through…

• Guyana Oil: From Rags To Riches

  Published 21 May 2017 | viewed 31,276 times

  The Search For El Dorado The first time I landed in Georgetown, Guyana, nearly a decade ago, the impoverished former British colony was grappling with…

• Saudis Own The Largest Refinery In The U.S. – Now What?

  Published 14 May 2017 | viewed 39,271 times

  Port Arthur, TX is home to the U.S. refining fleet’s crown jewel. With an atmospheric distillation capacity of 603 MBbl/cd, this complex coking refinery is…

• Oil Majors See Huge Opportunity In Eastern Mediterranean

  Published 20 April 2017 | viewed 26,152 times

  Quite suddenly, there is remarkable oil industry news to come out of the East Mediterranean region. If the plan is executed, in the space of…

• UK Is Europe’s Last Hope For A Fracking Success

  Published 18 January 2017 | viewed 13,122 times

  Following poor success across Europe, including Poland, Ukraine, France, the Netherlands, and Denmark, the UK now remains the last candidate province for European shale gas…

• Reservoir Damages May Stop OPEC From Cheating

  Published 24 December 2016 | viewed 16,626 times

  OPEC oil production comes primarily from conventional reservoirs. These reservoirs require reservoir pressure management. Some have suggested that Saudi Arabia’s rationale for cutting production was…

• Natural Gas Inventories See Unusually Strong Draw

  Published 16 December 2016 | viewed 13,979 times

  The EIA announced a 147 Bcf withdrawal for the week ended Dec. 9. The draw was higher than average market expectations. The full range of…

• Winter Pushes Gas Prices Up

  Published 02 December 2016 | viewed 14,655 times

  U.S. natural gas storage inventories decreased by 50 Bcf during the week ending Nov. 25, per EIA. The 50 Bcf draw was relatively in line…

• Why Permian Prices Will Keep Breaking Records

  Published 19 October 2016 | viewed 16,439 times

  Activity in the Permian is higher than in any other U.S. resource play by nearly all measures. A quick look at nationwide rig counts shows…

• U.S. Oil Industry May Soon Face Rig And Worker Shortages

  Published 02 July 2016 | viewed 21,421 times

  Coming on the heels of the last few articles about DUCs (drilled uncompleted wells) another discussion that is beginning to occur between analysts and companies…

• The Future Of LNG Just Got A Bit Brighter

  Published 21 May 2016 | viewed 17,209 times

  Recently, we were able to analyze the 2016 status report from The International Group of Liquefied Natural Gas Importers (GIIGNL) regarding the advances of the…

• The East Texas Basin Continues To Surpass Expectations

  Published 15 May 2016 | viewed 17,740 times

  The East Texas Basin, a rather large Jurassic-Aged basin containing a number of hydrocarbon-bearing formations stretched across the northern part of East Texas and West…

• How Oil Prices Are Impacted By Storage Logistics

  Published 14 May 2016 | viewed 18,450 times

  Macroeconomic investors in financial products such as oil futures contracts speculate on commodity pricing trends. Because their participation in markets is purely financial, speculators, notably…

• U.S. Oil And Gas Continues To Thrive In The Permian Basin

  Published 08 April 2016 | viewed 14,604 times

  For the last five years or so, horizontal wells drilled with large rigs and drilling pads has been the picture in most people’s minds when…

• The Harmful Impact Of Subsidies On The Oil Industry

  Published 02 April 2016 | viewed 7,451 times

  Energy subsidies combined with price control can reduce supply when producers do not have a profit incentive to increase supply. Fuel subsidies and price controls…

• Oil Prices Beyond WTI And Brent

  Published 25 March 2016 | viewed 25,934 times

  In all the Sturm und Drang over the collapse in commodity prices, we have all rallied around two numbers that we can hang our hats…