The price of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude has taken the oil and gas industry for a wild ride since June. From north of $105, so far we’ve rocketed down the first hill of the rollercoaster and we’re still screaming with our eyes closed. But if you go by the published WTI price forecasts of 32 large banks, crude is
The price of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) exceeded Brent for the first time since July 2013 today, before closing at $48.63 – just $0.14 below its spot price counterpart. In an interview with Bloomberg, John Kilduff, a partner at Again Capital LLC, said, “Strong refinery utilization here is giving WTI support, while Brent is tied to the oversupplied European market.”
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.
On Monday, U.S. crude oil, reacting to a less worrisome geopolitical climate in Iraq and Ukraine, fell to its lowest level since January at $92.66 for October delivery. Monday’s “biggest decliners in the S&P 500 were oil drilling and exploration companies, which rely on high oil prices to justify pulling crude oil out of remote parts of the planet. Newfield
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.
