Times have changed, and less is more. In July, I wrote about bringing back your employees to either full employment or from working from home. We have all learned that not everyone has to be physically present to get their jobs done. In that light, I would guess that commercial real estate is going to […]
Changing with the Times
The decade of 2010 opened to a “black gold rush” built upon horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, drawing in a flood of investment money of all kinds. Investors dreamed of funding an unlimited Christmas list for producers and service companies alike, asking only that the list be used to expand the company so it could […]
Restructurings Signal Paradigm Shift
Q&A With Opportune Managing Partner David Baggett: Oil & Gas Restructurings Signal Paradigm Shift The upstream oil and gas industry is currently undergoing a paradigm shift as companies scramble for cash and face bankruptcies and restructurings under the weight of heavy debt loads while operating in one of the worst downcycles in history, according to […]
Where Will Crude Prices Go From Here?
Two competing narratives dominate the talk today where crude oil prospects are concerned. There is the break-your-spirits pessimism parroted by the Covid-crisis crowd, beating their drumbeat of disaster. For them, the lockdowns ought be locked in a year or more at a crack. Then there is the bullishness of the glass-half-full crowd, finding positivity in […]
A Case for Optimism
In the wake of the Saudi-Russian Price War, it’s understandable if some care not what the Saudis think about the fortunes of oil and gas in what remains of 2020. That said, there is, for those who care to hear it, a profession of optimism from the Saudi’s top oilman. IHS Markit reported that Saudi […]
Refiners Reconsider Strategies
Demand for transportation fuel has taken a huge hit on oil refineries since late March 2020 amid COVID-19 lockdowns, according to researchers at GlobalData. Being ill prepared to tackle such sudden demand erosion at such a short notice, these refiners had no choice but to limit production, revisit business portfolios, slash capital expenditure, and stall […]
LNG Exports Decline, But…
Following the continued cancellation of U.S. LNG cargos, Adrian Lara, senior oil and gas analyst at GlobalData, suggested that a longer-term positive may reside among the negatives of the situation. Said Lara: “One of the reasons why the United States is experiencing a high number of cargo cancellations has to do with the flexibility embedded […]
Industry leaders set goal to lower emissions to address climate change
The CEOs of 12 leading energy companies have agreed to lower emissions of the companies’ crude oil and natural gas production to address climate change. The international consortium, Oil and Gas Climate Initiative, includes CEOs of BP, Chevron, CNPC, Eni, Equinor, ExxonMobil, Occidental, Petrobras, Repsol, Saudi Aramco, Shell and Total. OGCI, established in 2014, said […]
Baker Hughes: Permian Basin adds rigs for first time since March
Permian Basin added rigs last week for the first time since March to break a streak of 18 consecutive weeks with declining rig counts. Permian added 2 rigs for a new total of 126 (443 year ago). According to Baker Hughes, as of July 24, Texas idled 1 rig for a new total of 103 […]
Rystad Energy: Permian leads increased hydraulic fracturing activity
Oslo-based Rystad Energy said July 23 its analysis shows that new hydraulic fracturing operations in the U.S., which fell to a low of 325 wells in June during the coronavirus pandemic, are expected to return to above 400 in July. “Recovery will be especially evident in the Permian Basin,” Rystad said, “where activity has nearly […]
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