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U.S. Oil Production Sees First Year-Over-Year Decline in Four Years

Oil production in December 2015 down 166 MBOPD from a year earlier

The decline in crude oil prices took longer to pull production down than many expected, but it is happening, according to data from the EIA. Crude oil …

Charles Cherington, Co-Founder of Intervale Capital, Discusses the Oil Market on CNBC’s Squawk Box

Charles Cherington, Co-Founder of Intervale Capital, Discusses the Oil Market on CNBC’s Squawk Box

Charles Cherington, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Intervale Capital, speaks to CNBC’s Squawk Box regarding the state of the U.S. and global oil markets. Intervale Capital is a private equity firm investing exclusively in oilfield manufacturing and service companies, …

Sub $50 Oil is Giving OPEC Countries a Sharp Pain:  Who will be First to Cave?

Sub $50 Oil is Giving OPEC Countries a Sharp Pain: Who will be First to Cave?

OPEC gulf producers look to stay the course for now

A global over-supply of crude oil has sent the price for the commodity down to historic lows since June of 2014, when the prices for Brent and WTI crude were …

Interview with Alta Mesa Holdings President & CEO Hal Chappelle at The Oil & Gas Conference® 20

Interview with Alta Mesa Holdings President & CEO Hal Chappelle at The Oil & Gas Conference® 20

Alta Mesa Holdings President & CEO Hal Chappelle talks to Oil & Gas 360 at The Oil & Gas Conference® 20 in Denver about his company’s holdings, operations and use of technologies to improve yields and reduce costs.

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Has U.S. Oil Production Already Rolled Over?

Has U.S. Oil Production Already Rolled Over?

Raymond James estimates U.S. production has been declining since March

The oil market may be tighter than many realize, according to analysis from Marshall Adkins and researchers at Raymond James. In a follow up to the research they did on …

OPEC: Too Close to Call - Oil & Gas 360

Will ISIS be a Factor at Friday’s OPEC Meeting?

“[ISIS] presents a whole new reality for the region, which just isn’t reflected in the oil market at the moment,” said Daniel Yergin, Vice Chairman of IHS, in an interview with The Telegram. “It’s an increasingly grave situation for …

June 3, 2015 - 7:06 pm Oil and Gas 360 Articles, OPEC, Politics & Opinions
Source: Iraqenergy.org

Iraq Production Reaches New Highs in May

Iraq continues to increase production ahead of OPEC meeting

Iraq’s oil production reached record levels in May. The country produced an average of 3.87 MMBOPD, the highest levels in decades, according to Bloomberg. This news comes just days before …

Rig Counts are Down This Week as Production Slows

Rig Counts are Down This Week as Production Slows

Prices this week hit new highs for the year on news of slowing production in the U.S.

The Baker Hughes (ticker: BHI) rig count for the week ended April 17, 2015 showed yet another drop in the number of rigs …

Whiting Petroleum – Done Funded, Drilling Ahead

Whiting Petroleum – Done Funded, Drilling Ahead

Whiting Petroleum (ticker: WLL), the largest E&P producer in the Williston Basin, shored up its balance sheet this week with a series of debt and equity raises. The deals include:

IEA: U.S. Oil Production Approaching a Crossroads

IEA: U.S. Oil Production Approaching a Crossroads

United States oil production and its diminishing storage capacity may lead to another drop in oil prices, according the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) Oil Market Report for March 2015. The Agency revised its oil demand outlook upward, but the increase …

Production Beginning to Slow in EIA’s March Drilling Productivity Report

Production Beginning to Slow in EIA’s March Drilling Productivity Report

The Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) Drilling Productivity Report, a monthly breakdown on production by basins, typically forecasts production increases across the United States’ seven most prolific plays. The latest edition, released on March 9, 2015, projects production in April …

March 10, 2015 - 6:42 pm Commodity Pricing, Oil and Gas 360 Articles, OPEC
Production Resumes in Libya’s Largest Oilfield

Production Resumes in Libya’s Largest Oilfield

Libya Getting Back on its Feet, For Now

Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) said today that its Arabian Gulf Oil Co. (AGOCO) unit restarted production at the Sarir field in the east of the country. Statistics released from Libya’s National

February 24, 2015 - 2:06 pm Oil and Gas 360 Articles, OPEC
Chart of the Week: U.S. Production vs. China Demand

Chart of the Week: U.S. Production vs. China Demand

United States crude production is expected to be at its highest since 1986, according to information compiled from Bloomberg and the Energy Information Administration. The increased domestic production has allowed the U.S. to diminish its need for imports – a …

February 6, 2015 - 6:41 pm Chart of Week, International, Oil and Gas 360 Articles
Oil Production by Country/Region as a Percentage of World Production.  Numbers represent actual production measured in thousands of barrels of oil per day. Chart: Oil & Gas 360®, Data: EIA

Shaking Up the World’s Top Oil Producers

Take a good look at the global oil producers’ scorecard as it stands today. In a year or two, depending on when, how and if global production begins to fall off as a result of lower commodity prices or other …

January 15, 2015 - 6:39 pm Oil and Gas 360 Articles, OPEC
Oil prices turned firmly lower during midday trading on Tuesday. Crude futures were little changed earlier in the session, depressed by a report of record Saudi production but supported by expectations that oil exporters would agree to cut output at an OPEC meeting next week. Oil & Gas 360

Oil Prices: Pain from A Thousand Cuts

Effects from the oil price slide are being celebrated by the average American consumer. AAA reports Americans may save as much as $75 billion in fuel costs in 2015, or $550 per household, which amounts to the lowest in more

Russia, Iraq Close Out 2014 with 30-Year Record Production

Russia, Iraq Close Out 2014 with 30-Year Record Production

Russia set a post-Soviet production record and Iraq exported the most oil since the 1980s in the month of December, according to a report from Bloomberg.

The information, which was acquired from an email by the Russian Energy Ministry, said …

January 2, 2015 - 6:36 pm International, Oil and Gas 360 Articles
2014 in Review: United States Production Boom Facing Uncertainty

2014 in Review: United States Production Boom Facing Uncertainty

What a difference a year makes.

When Oil & Gas 360® released its year in review piece exactly 365 days ago, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) was projecting oil volumes to rise through 2016 and natural gas volumes to …

Source: World Review
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Conflict in Libya Spreads to Third Oil Port

Fighting between factions in Libya threatens another port in the embattled country

Fighting between Libya’s competing governments has spread to a third oil port, curbing gas exports to Italy and cutting crude production to less than what is necessary to …

December 23, 2014 - 4:08 pm International, Oil and Gas 360 Articles
VAALCO Energy Updates Operations Offshore Africa

VAALCO Energy Updates Operations Offshore Africa

VAALCO Energy, Inc. is a Houston based independent energy company principally engaged in the acquisition, exploration, development and production of crude oil.  VAALCO places high emphasis on international opportunities and holds acreage in Gabon, Angola and Equatorial Guinea in West …

Petrobras at a Crossroads: Production Rising, but Will Brazil’s Election Slam on the Brakes?

Petrobras at a Crossroads: Production Rising, but Will Brazil’s Election Slam on the Brakes?

Petrobras (ticker: PBR) announced production for the month of September 2014 increased 0.8% compared to August 2014. Rates totaled 2,781 MBOEPD, up from the previous month’s volume of 2,759 MBOEPD. The increase comes despite a temporary interruption of 44 MBOPD …

October 15, 2014 - 7:00 pm International, Oil and Gas 360 Articles

Petrobras Brings in North Jupiter Well, Achieves Production Records in July

Brazil Mourns Death of Presidential Candidate Eduardo Campos

Petrobras (ticker: PBR), the Brazilian integrated oil and gas company, announced today the extension of the Jupiter discovery in Santos Basin pre-salt block BM-S-24 following drilling operations at well 3-BRSA-1246-RJS (3-RJS-732), informally …

August 13, 2014 - 6:11 pm Oil and Gas 360 Articles, Oilfield Services
UPDATE: ISIS Terrorists Selling Captured Oil, Going After Wells

UPDATE: ISIS Terrorists Selling Captured Oil, Going After Wells

NBC News, Reuters and other media outlets have reported that Iraqi officials say the ISIS militant group has been selling captured crude oil and gasoline that it seized when the terrorist group took over portions of northern Iraq a …

July 25, 2014 - 4:57 pm Oil and Gas 360 Articles

Breitling Energy: A Land Royalty Company Moves Into Operations

Breitling Energy Corporation (ticker: BECC) is focused on the acquisition, exploration and development of lower risk onshore plays in the United States. The Dallas, Texas-based company primarily targets the Permian Basin and Mississippi oil window through its properties in Texas, …

U.S. Refinery Rates at All-Time High: EIA

U.S. Refinery Rates at All-Time High: EIA

United States refineries have processed as much as 16.8 MMBOPD in each of the past two weeks, according to a report released by the Energy Information Administration (EIA) on July 24, 2014. The historic mark, based on EIA data beginning …

July 24, 2014 - 4:14 pm Earnings, Midstream, Oil and Gas 360 Articles

“Attention Delta Airlines’ Passengers: You may now thank the oilfield workers in the Bakken for today’s lower airfares…”

North Dakota crude will arrive at Delta’s in-house refinery by rail

Delta Airlines (ticker: DAL), through its refining subsidiary Monroe Energy LLC, has inked a deal with midstream supplier Bridger LLC to supply 65,000 BOPD of Bakken crude oil to …

July 23, 2014 - 4:53 pm Midstream, Oil and Gas 360 Articles
Fossil Fuel Powers Fortune’s Global 500

Fossil Fuel Powers Fortune’s Global 500

The top rung of Fortune Magazine’s 2014 Global 500 list is heavily skewed toward fossil fuel development and exploitation. Of Fortune’s ten largest global companies, half are integrated oil and gas companies. Two, Volkswagen and Toyota, are totally dependent upon …

July 22, 2014 - 6:07 pm International, Oil and Gas 360 Articles
Bakken Update: The Top Five Producers in One of America’s Greatest Oil Fields

Bakken Update: The Top Five Producers in One of America’s Greatest Oil Fields

The Bakken Shale, the third largest regional oil producer in the United States, achieved the 1 MMBOPD milestone in June 2014. The announcement came just months after IHS announced the field had produced a total of 1 billion barrels …

July 15, 2014 - 5:37 pm Midstream, Oil and Gas 360 Articles
Is OPEC Running Out of Gas?

Is OPEC Running Out of Gas?

Thanks in part to the U.S. shale oil boom, OPEC is predicting that its share of the world oil market will shrink in 2015 for a third year running, Reuters reported on Thursday. In its 2015 Oil Market Outlook, …

July 10, 2014 - 5:41 pm International, Oil and Gas 360 Articles, OPEC
ISIS Now Controls Six Syrian Oil and Gas Fields: CNN

ISIS Now Controls Six Syrian Oil and Gas Fields: CNN

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CNN reported today that ISIS has taken over six Syrian oil and gas fields, as well as al-Omar, “Syria’s largest oil facility that can produce 75,000 barrels of oil a day.” Pakistan’s Dawn News reported that one of the oil …

July 8, 2014 - 5:36 pm Fracing, Oil and Gas 360 Articles
Will North Dakota Push OPEC Members Out of the Top 20?

Will North Dakota Push OPEC Members Out of the Top 20?

Driving around the oil fields of North Dakota outside of Minot, you’re struck by the fact that you are surrounded by thousands of square miles of rich, expansive farmland—green fields as far as the eye can see. But it’s what …

June 25, 2014 - 5:26 pm International, Midstream, Oil and Gas 360 Articles, OPEC