Saturday, June 7, 2025

IEA’s Birol Backtracks 2017 Rebalance Prediction

Birol believes rebalance is now coming in 2H of 2018 Back in July—on the U.S.’s Independence Day—Fatih Birol, the chief of the International Energy Agency (IEA) said he believed the oil market would rebalance in the second half of 2017, “but further output increases among key producers such as Nigeria and Libya could hamper this process,” Reuters reported from Birol’s

Challenges for Western Canada Heavy Oil Point to Continued Export to U.S. Gulf Coast

IHS Markit has released a new study called, “A New Look: Extracting Value from the Canadian Oil Sands.” The report presents a post-oil price collapse update to a 2013 analysis on the economics of processing heavy oil in Alberta and other select jurisdictions. Bitumen-related problems: too heavy for pipelines Bitumen is the extra-heavy oil found in the oil sands. Making

ExxonMobil Starts Production Offshore Newfoundland/Labrador

Hebron field project expected to produce 150 MBOPD at peak Project expects to produce up to 150,000 barrels of oil per day at peak Project had more than 40 million hours without a lost-time injury Project completed ahead of schedule Exxon Mobil Corporation (ticker: XOM) announced today that the Hebron project safely started production. The project was revealed in a