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
Oil prices slid sharply in Monday trading, dropping by more than 4% to close at a five-year low of $63.02. Brent prices fell in similar fashion, ending the day below the $66.00 mark. Spot prices for WTI have dropped by 18.6% in the last month alone. The continuous price drop occurred the same day as three separate oil companies announced
On November 27, the nation’s attention will descend on the heart of Texas for another classic NFL Thanksgiving matchup between the Dallas Cowboys and Philadelphia Eagles. Cheap seats on StubHub are currently selling for $150 and up. Also on Thanksgiving Day, but on the other side of the world, the oil industry’s attention will descend on Vienna, Italy, for the
The Energy Information Administration reported a draw of 7.525 million barrels in crude oil inventories in its Weekly Petroleum Status Report for the period ended July 11, 2014. The drop is the largest since a January 11, 2014 draw of 7.628 million barrels and far exceeded the estimates of ten economists polled by Bloomberg. The current reduction is more than
Yesterday energy analysts warned of a significant global price jump for oil if Iraq’s southern oil fields are captured and shut down, but commodity prices appear to be disconnected this week from the potentially serious threat to Iraq’s oil production, after posting a four percent gain during last week’s escalation of hostilities. Raymond James’ Managing Director Marshall Adkins said that
