Well, at the end of June, nearing $40/bbl for the price of oil sure feels better than nearing $10/bbl. While it’s not the $55/bbl that we enjoyed pre-“Double Whammy,” (Covid-19 and Price War) it is much better than we experienced in the month of May, when realized prices for many were in the $17/bbl range […]
Navigating a Twofold Crisis
You have to like a guy who does the thing that gives people a measure of hope. Just when the grimness of the colossal price drop in crude oil was deflating people’s outlook for their economic future, someone did something uplifting. Kirk Edwards published an “Open Letter to President Trump” in the Odessa American on […]
Nowhere to Go: Oil Cuts Loom
IHS Markit expects up to 10 MMb/d of world oil production will be cut or shut-in from April to June 2020 as oil storage fills up and output from financially strapped companies begins to fall. If oil cannot be sold or stored, it cannot be produced. Transportation constraints and lack of access to every available […]