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Shale Oil

With U.S. shale oil boom over, can world production climb?

December 12, 2022December 11, 2022 by Kurt Cobb

World growth in oil supplies will have to come from someplace other than the United States. Will there be a new oil production savior?

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Has OPEC finally won the war against shale oil?

July 19, 2021July 18, 2021 by Kurt Cobb

It appears that OPEC has finally won its long war against shale oil as beaten up investors seek their fortunes elsewhere.

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The Saudi-Russian oil price war tag team: Are things what they seem?

April 13, 2020April 12, 2020 by Kurt Cobb

I believe that the Saudis and the Russians are trying again to destroy the shale oil industry in the United States with their dance of uncertainty. As of this writing, the world has been told that the Saudis’ on-again, off-again fight with the Russians is off-again resulting in a new deal to cut production.

Categories Energy Tags Russian oil, Saudi Arabia, Shale Oil 1 Comment

Note to EIA: Major shale operator sending cash elsewhere

February 10, 2020February 9, 2020 by Kurt Cobb

Someone should send a note to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) that maybe it’s not all going to work out. If Hess is right about a peak in U.S. shale oil production soon, that peak will come about a decade earlier than the peak forecast by the EIA.

Categories Energy, Energy featured, Environment Tags Shale Oil 1 Comment

The wheels come off shale oil

August 12, 2019August 11, 2019 by Kurt Cobb

Will shale oil rise again from the dead as it did after the 2014-2016 price decline? That will happen only if two things occur: 1) The oil price rises significantly and 2) investors have a serious bout of amnesia.

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Shale oil and gas: Destroying capital one well at a time

July 1, 2019June 30, 2019 by Kurt Cobb

The former CEO of America’s largest shale gas producer has just admitted publicly that the shale oil and gas industry has done nothing but destroy the capital of investors. Will his words make any difference?

Categories Economy, Energy, Energy featured Tags Natural Gas, Shale gas, Shale Oil 1 Comment

Does Chevron know exactly what shale oil and gas are worth?

May 12, 2019 by Kurt Cobb

A bidding war that didn’t happen over shale oil and gas may say something we all should know about those deposits.

Categories Energy Tags shale gas boom, Shale Oil 1 Comment

Has U.S. shale oil entered a death spiral?

January 28, 2019January 27, 2019 by Kurt Cobb

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?

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Shale oil becomes shale fail (and a nice subsidy for consumers)

October 28, 2018 by Kurt Cobb

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.

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OPEC production increase shows it’s still fighting U.S. shale oil

June 24, 2018 by Kurt Cobb

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.

Categories Economy, Energy Tags American oil production, oil price, Shale Oil, tight oil Leave a comment

Why Is The Shale Industry Still Not Profitable?

January 30, 2018 by Nick Cunningham

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.”

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US shale oil peak in 2015

April 13, 2016 by Matt Mushalik

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.

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