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?
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.
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.
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.”
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.
By David Hughes, Asher Miller, Post Carbon Institute
America’s energy future is largely determined by the assumptions and expectations we have today.
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.
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.
By Stephen Lacey, Chris Nelder, The Energy Gang, Greentech Media
Chris Nelder on why peak oil isn't dead.
By Energy Crunch staff, New Economics Foundation
With a new UK government in place much sooner than expected, what do the next five years hold?