Bakken
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May 29, 2020
Our look ahead the coming week, including how drillers' ability to react to an increase in oil and gas demand could be impacted by technical and manpower limitations, and what key OPEC players have in store for the first week of June.
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May 28, 2020
Even if the economy continues to recover and a second wave of the pandemic is less damaging than the first, U.S. shale drillers may still take at least a year before moving rigs back into the field, according to the leader of an oilfield-services company.
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May 22, 2020
Less than 20% of this year’s expected drop in overall U.S. crude output will come from shuttering existing wells, according to IHS Markit. Rather, the vast majority of the supply drop will be the direct result of canceled drilling projects.
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May 22, 2020
Key trends for the coming week, including how industry groups' response to low oil prices differ dramatically in the U.S. versus other producing nations, China's big plans for its economy, and investment analysts turning their backs on key sectors of the industry.
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May 22, 2020
The smallest shale oil drillers have endured their fair share of pain in this spring’s energy collapse and, with ailing stock prices, analysts are finding it even tougher to cover the group.
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May 22, 2020
Shale explorers extended their retreat into a 10th week, dropping the number of oil rigs at work in the U.S. to the lowest since 2009 as some struggle to stay afloat.
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May 21, 2020
After oil’s crash below zero, explorers face hefty premiums for the financial instruments they rely upon to insure against price swings. Meanwhile, they’re also unwilling to lock in future supply with forward prices for crude remaining lackluster.
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May 21, 2020
Arindam Das discusses where energy sector companies must focus to meet capital markets' new expectations, both to survive the downturn and to act advantageously as stabilizing markets present new opportunities.
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May 19, 2020
Overall production is seen falling by 197,000 barrels a day next month to 7.822 MMbbl, which would be the lowest since late 2018. The expected decline would have been even more dramatic if not for a downward revision to May’s output estimate in the order of half a million barrels a day.
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May 18, 2020
Oil reaches its highest price since March, which could lead to a new production imbalance in U.S. shale, and Oxy is left holding the bag on a major asset sale.
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May 18, 2020
Producers are already restarting oil wells in North Dakota as prices come off record lows, but talk of a recovery is premature, said the state’s energy regulator.
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May 15, 2020
A week after WTI crude settled below zero for the first time ever, analysts at JPMorgan projected that the U.S. would cut output by 1.5 MMbpd by June. Two weeks into May, production is already down by at least that much and continues to decline.
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May 15, 2020
Key trends for the coming week, including a couple of wild cards that could threaten the recovering global oil price and production balance.
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May 14, 2020
Based on capex cuts, falling drilling rig counts, and voluntary production curtailments, the U.S. Energy Information Administration projects domestic crude production to decline through 2021.
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May 07, 2020
The U.S. oil explorer said it has enlisted three very-large crude carriers that will each store about 2 million barrels of oil produced in May, June and July from the Bakken shale field in North Dakota.
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May 01, 2020
It’s too soon to tell how long the reductions will last, but if implemented for a full year, they would overshadow any previous American production slide going back to at least 1984.
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April 22, 2020
A historic crash in crude prices is driving U.S. shale into full-on retreat with operators halting new drilling and shutting in old wells, moves that could cut output by 20% for the world’s biggest producer of oil.
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April 16, 2020
ConocoPhillips is voluntarily curtailing 225,000 gross boepd, and reducing cash usage by more than $5 billion in 2020.
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April 16, 2020
No one is feeling the pain of an oil collapse more than the shale producers. Except, perhaps, their suppliers.
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April 09, 2020
U.S. shale drillers are engaged in a bitter test of wills as sinking oil prices force the weakest operators to retreat just as OPEC urges the world’s biggest source of crude to help rescue a market roiled by the coronavirus pandemic.
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April 08, 2020
Marathon Oil is reducing its capital spending this year to about half of 2019 levels, joining a parade of shale drillers doing the same with oil prices trading at depressed levels as demand suffers due to coronavirus.
