Does Chevron know exactly what shale oil and gas are worth?
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
A bidding war that didn't happen over shale oil and gas may say something we all should know about those deposits.
Tag: Shale Oil
Has U.S. shale oil entered a death spiral?
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
As long as investors continued to plow money into U.S. shale oil companies, the industry seemed unstoppable. But with the flow of those funds all but stopped, has the U.S. shale oil industry entered a death spiral?
Shale oil becomes shale fail (and a nice subsidy for consumers)
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
The rapid rise in U.S. oil production from so-called shale oil deposits has resulted in forecasts of oil abundance far into the future. The financial indicators and simple logic tell us that these forecasts are almost certainly wrong.
OPEC production increase shows it’s still fighting U.S. shale oil
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
The move by OPEC last week to raise oil production to compensate for outages among the group's members shows that U.S. shale oil (properly called "tight oil") is still in its cross hairs--and that the economics of tight oil remain abysmal.
Why Is The Shale Industry Still Not Profitable?
By Nick Cunningham, oilprice.com
Riyadh-based Al Rajhi Capital dug into the financials of a long list of U.S. shale companies, and found that “despite rising prices most firms under our study are still in losses with no signs of improvement.”
US shale oil peak in 2015
By Matt Mushalik, Crude Oil Peak
The latest EIA drilling productivity report (11th April 2016) shows US shale oil production continuing to decline in Bakken, Eagle Ford and Niobrara while the Permian has flattened out.
Tight Oil Reality Check
By David Hughes, Asher Miller, Post Carbon Institute
America’s energy future is largely determined by the assumptions and expectations we have today.
The Dark Side Of The Shale Bust
By Nick Cunningham, oilprice.com
The fallout of the collapse in oil prices has a lot of side effects apart from the decline of rig counts and oil flows.
The Bakken ”Red Queen” is restrained with more credit
By Rune Likvern, Fractional Flow
To get some understanding of what will drive future developments on Light Tight Oil (LTO) extraction in Bakken, it is helpful to look at individual companies.
Peak Oil in an Era of Fossil Fuel Abundance
By Stephen Lacey, Chris Nelder, The Energy Gang, Greentech Media
Chris Nelder on why peak oil isn't dead.