WTI falls below $30 per barrel for the first time in 12 years The price of a barrel of West Texas Intermediate crude oil fell below the $30 mark for the first time since 2003 this week. Continued concerns over China’s market are curbing demand expectations as the global oil glut persists. WTI was trading at $29.45 at 2:15 EST
An expert on relations between the two countries weighs in on this week’s clash in an exclusive Oil & Gas 360® interview Relations continued to worsen this week between Iran and Saudi Arabia in the Middle East, with Iran claiming that Saudi Arabia intentionally struck its embassy in Yemen with an airstrike late Wednesday night. Yemen has served as a
Survey of Energy Industry Executives and Investment Professionals Focused on the Oil & Gas Industry In December, Oil & Gas 360® conducted a survey of industry executives and investors. We asked respondents to predict commodities pricing for 2016, as well as U.S. CapEx, global demand and U.S. production for the year ahead. Who are the respondents? 50% are executives from E&P,
If you look at the number of jobs lost, company market value lost, and the growing numbers of oil patch bankruptcies, 2015’s continued commodities price fall led to a lot of bangs and bruises in the oil and gas industry. 2015 was also a year in which readers of Oil & Gas 360® kept up with industry developments, company news
$10 Trillion in global oil-related investment will be needed to Meet Demand: OPEC Supply: non-OPEC supply down 1 MMBOD by 2020; OPEC supply up 1 MMBOD by 2040 OPEC’s press release announcing the coming 2015 release of its annual World Oil Outlook tomorrow says “the dynamics of non-OPEC supply are currently clouded by uncertainties.” But the cartel said it feels good about its
First Lift Off in the History of U.S. Monetary Policy (Editor’s Note: Art Hogan, Wunderlich Securities, Inc. Director of Research & Chief Market Strategist, offered the following commentary about the Fed’s move this week to raise interest rates.) Seven years ago, the Federal Open Market Committee made the historically unprecedented move of targeting the zero bound for the federal funds
Revises Price Assumptions Down in the Interim A Moody’s Investors Service report out today has lowered pricing assumptions for Brent and WTI and examines how a sustained period of lower oil prices would affect certain industries in producing and non-producing countries. Moody’s revised its crude oil spot pricing assumptions as follows: The report sums up the situation as follows: “Ongoing
Total rig count falls to 757 as oil rigs resume trend downward The United States total rig count fell again this week, continuing a trend started last year when OPEC announced it would not defend oil prices. The total rig count fell by 10 this week to 757, with all of the last rigs coming from the oil patch, according
Oil prices climbed on the eve of October’s busiest day of earnings season, but significant impairment charges put a damper on the brief rally. Large scale oil producers wrote off billions in the early stages of Q3’15 earnings, as Anadarko Petroleum (ticker: APC), Freeport McMoRan (ticker: FMX), Occidental Petroleum (ticker: OXY) and Whiting Petroleum (ticker: WLL) wrote off more than
The Federal Reserve decided to stand pat following its two-day October meeting The U.S. Federal Reserve today decided to maintain rates near zero, leaving them unchanged since 2008. The Fed did announce that it is open to raising rates at the next meeting in December. “In determining whether it will be appropriate to raise (interest rates) at its next meeting,
Every year, oil and gas companies are required by the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) to report their proved oil and gas reserves. By reporting these reserves, companies give their investors a meaningful understanding of the resources the company controls that it believes it could economically produce, establishing the size of the company’s reserves. To qualify under SEC guidelines as “proved
President Maduro to the world’s oil producers: “The minimum, minimum price should be $70” Oil producing countries have been negatively affected by the dramatic fall in the price of oil since the middle of last year, and some have been hit harder than others. Venezuela, in particular, is one OPEC member that is feeling the pressure. Why? Because 95% of
