The oil and gas industry wasn’t given much of a respite following the unofficial ending to the holiday season. Oil prices continued their plunge on Monday, January 5, 2015, with West Texas Intermediate (WTI) and Brent prices closing at $49.78 and $53.12, respectively. The sub-$4.00 differential first appeared in December 2014. The last time the market saw a sub-$4.00 differential
OPEC Cuts Demand Forecast OPEC cut demand forecast for its crude oil to a 12-year low, sending oil prices, energy shares and the overall stock market into a dive on Wednesday. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) traded at a day low of $60.43. On top of the OPEC demand cut, U.S. inventories increased on a day when expectations were for a
CIBC’s Katherine Spector Lays Out a Few Scenarios Head of Commodities Strategy for CIBC World Markets, Katherine Spector, hosted a conference call for CIBC clients on Wednesday morning in advance of both the U.S. Thanksgiving Day holiday and tomorrow’s much anticipated OPEC meeting and then spoke to Oil&Gas360® after the call in an exclusive interview about oil prices and OPEC.
Production in the Permian is at an all-time high, but its prices per barrel are a different story. Spot prices at the Permian’s main hub in Midland, Texas, are trending among three-year lows. Its differential on August 25, 2014, was roughly $8 below the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) price and approximately $17 below the Brent spot price. The growing differential
Energy XXI’s Chairman and CEO John Schiller appeared on CNBC’s Mad Money to talk about the disconnect between WTI and Brent crude oil prices, EXXI’s joint venture with Apache to explore the Gulf of Mexico shelf, and the company’s strategy for 2013.
In March 2013, Louisiana Light crude oil spot price traded at an average premium of $2.63 per Bbl to the Brent crude oil spot price. Brent in February 2013 was -2.5% lower than the same month last year. The median analyst estimate at the beginning of March for 2013 NYMEX oil was $90.50 per barrel with a high of $108.00 per barrel
