(Oil Price) – If there was any lingering doubt about what’s keeping Big Oil executives up at night, the fourth-quarter results cleared it up. It’s not slogans. It’s not transition optics. It’s whether they have enough high-quality barrels to avoid production decline in the 2030s. The majors are refocusing hard on upstream portfolio renewal for the next decade, according to WoodMac,
(Oil Price) – Back in 2017, oil production in the Permian stood at 2.2 million barrels daily. Today, the Permian is producing over 6 million barrels daily, accounting for nearly half of the U.S. total. Predictions of a looming peak have lately multiplied, but according to Wood Mackenzie, the Permian is not done yet—not if prices improve. To be sure, the boom
(World Oil) – Nigeria ranks as Africa’s leading destination for upstream oil and gas investment in 2024, research from market intelligence firm Wood Mackenzie shows. The country accounted for three out of four Final Investment Decisions (FIDs) announced by global oil and gas majors, totaling $13.5 billion. The FIDs announced within the Nigerian market included Shell’s $122 million investment in
(Oil Price) – Producers of crude oil and natural gas will invest more in their business next year amid a stumbling transition away from hydrocarbons. The development may come as a surprise in the context of ever more transition commitments on the part of governments, but it simply proves one thing: while there is demand, there will be supply. Investments in
CNBC The new coronavirus outbreak could have a significant impact on the wind energy industry in China, according to research by Wood Mackenzie. In a statement Monday, the research and consultancy firm said the virus — officially known as COVID-19 — had “brought much of China’s wind turbine component production to a standstill in recent weeks.” While Hubei province —
CNBC OPEC is likely to continue with its oil supply cuts for the rest of 2020, a research director said Monday. “One thing which we are seeing in our numbers is that the market is still not ready to absorb the production cuts back, even for (the) whole of this year,” Sushant Gupta, who heads Wood Mackenzie’s refining and oils market team
By Tyler Losier, Energy Reporter, Oil & Gas 360 Genscape will become a part of Verisk subsidiary Wood Mackenzie Verisk (stock ticker: VRSK), a data analytics provider headquartered in New Jersey, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Genscape, a provider of real-time data for commodity markets, from Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) for $364 million in cash. As
From Reuters Seven years ago, Diamondback Energy Inc went public with a modest parcel of drillable land in the Permian Basin of West Texas. Like dozens of other Permian startups, the firm then pursued a classic wildcatter’s strategy – borrowing to buy up acreage, acquire competitors and quickly boost output in the booming shale field. Today, Diamondback (FANG.O) is the
From The Houston Chronicle As the sweet spots of the booming Permian Basin are drilled, oil companies will need to either spend more money or consider mergers and acquisitions to keep up their crude production volumes, according to the energy research firm Wood Mackenzie. The conundrum is that Wall Street is punishing the stocks of public energy companies that increase
Keeps 2020 Brent as predicted earlier Wood Mackenzie put out a prediction after watching Brent oil prices, which were trading at $62 per barrel on December 7, 2018 before falling to $51 per barrel on December 21, 2018. Mixed macroeconomic data have driven much of the volatility, with political uncertainty compounding concerns of a sharper than expected economic slowdown, Wood
From Houston Chronicle The slow deepwater recovery in the Gulf of Mexico and the rest of the world is now threatened by falling oil prices and the projected cost rise of drilling rigs and other services. A new report Tuesday by research firm Wood Mackenzie highlights how the offshore sector has returned to viability through costs reductions and greater
In its appearance at EIA’s annual Energy Conference last week, Wood Mackenzie gave a presentation on crude oil exports, saying that U.S. crude oil exports rose in tandem with U.S. oil production following the repeal of the U.S.’s 40-year crude oil export ban in December, 2015. Oil from North Dakota, Texas moves to users in Asia and Europe According to
