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Revisiting the Shale Oil Hype: Technology versus Geology

December 15, 2020March 31, 2015 by David Hughes

Irrespective of price, geology is trumping technology in the Bakken and Eagle Ford plays.

Categories Energy Tags Fracking, Shale Oil, tight oil Leave a comment

Lifting the U.S. Oil Export Ban Is No Solution to Low Oil Prices

December 15, 2020March 19, 2015 by Arthur E. Berman

Lifting the oil export ban would only perpetuate the problem of over-production. That is no solution to low oil prices, lost jobs or lower oil-related spending.

Categories Energy Tags debt, oil export ban, oil price, Reserves, tight oil, tight oil production Leave a comment

ExxonMobil CEO Wrong About “Resilience” of Tight Oil Production

December 15, 2020March 10, 2015 by Arthur E. Berman

ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson is wrong about the resilience of U.S. tight oil production.

Categories Energy Tags rig count, Shale gas, tight oil, tight oil production Leave a comment

Has California’s Fracking Boom Already Gone Bust?

December 15, 2020March 9, 2015 by Tara Lohan

There was a time, just a few years ago, that most news reports deemed a shale oil boom inevitable in California. But now, it’s not looking like such a sure thing after all.

Categories Energy Tags Drilling California, Fracking, Monterey Shale, tight oil Leave a comment

Oil Prices Don’t Change Because of Rig Count

December 15, 2020March 2, 2015 by Arthur E. Berman

Oil prices don’t change based on weekly rig count reports. Yet every week, there are proclamations by analysts that oil prices are poised to recover because of some change in the Baker Hughes North American rig count

Categories Energy Tags Bakken, demand, Eagle Ford, Eagle Ford Shale, Oil, oil price, rig count, supply, tight oil Leave a comment

Is the US Overplaying Its Energy Hand?

December 15, 2020February 26, 2015 by Richard Heinberg

The evidence suggests the United States is playing energy poker with a pair of jacks in its hand, but betting as if it had four aces.

Categories Energy Tags geopolitics, Oil, Shale gas, tight oil, U.S. natural gas exports Leave a comment

Peak Oil Review – Feb 17

December 15, 2020February 17, 2015 by Tom Whipple

A weekly review including Oil and the Global Economy, The Middle East & North Africa, Russia/Ukraine, Quote of the Week, The Briefs.

Categories Energy Tags geopolitics, Oil, tight oil Leave a comment

Arthur Berman Interview: Why Today’s Shale Era Is The Retirement Party For Oil Production

December 15, 2020February 12, 2015 by Chris Martenson

To separate the hype from reality on US shale oil, our podcast guest is Arthur Berman, a geological consultant with 34 years of experience in petroleum exploration and production.

Categories Energy Tags Fracking, Shale Oil, tight oil Leave a comment

No Oil Price Rebound Yet: An Explanation in Two Charts

December 15, 2020February 11, 2015 by Arthur E. Berman

The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, February 10 proclaimed “Oil-Price Rebound Predicted” according to the IEA. – Not true.

Categories Energy Tags demand, EIA, IEA, oil price, OPEC, supply, tight oil Leave a comment

After the Peak

December 15, 2020February 2, 2015 by Richard Heinberg

Within a couple of years, those of us who have spent most of the past two decades warning about the approaching peak may see vindication by data, if not by public opinion.

Categories Energy Tags conventional oil production, energy descent, peak oil, Shale Oil, tight oil Leave a comment

Dumb and Dumber: U.S. Crude Oil Export

December 15, 2020January 19, 2015 by Arthur E. Berman

Exporting crude oil and natural gas from the United States are among the dumbest energy ideas of all time. 

Categories Energy Tags oil exports, oil imports, oil price, Reserves, Shale, tight oil Leave a comment

Fracking Fracas: The Trouble with Optimistic Shale Gas Projections by the U.S. Department of Energy

December 15, 2020December 24, 2014 by David Hughes

The implications of the EIA being wrong on its projections of cheap and abundant gas for decades are considerable.

Categories Energy Tags Fracking, Shale gas, tight oil Leave a comment
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