Bakken oil production has already declined in 2015.  There is compelling evidence that this decline is going to accelerate significantly in the next couple of months. If that happens the recovery we have seen in oil prices in recent weeks is also going accelerate. Being as the market likes the fact...
Surprise!  Global Oil Demand Is Surging….. While most of the oil market coverage has been focused on the glut of supply what has been missed is that an equally big story has emerged on the demand side of the equation. Global oil demand is surging in response to the drop in...
These Statistics Show A Surprising Oil Hotspot Brewing in America Guess which American oil play will show the largest increase in production the next two years?  That’s right, I said increase. The Bakken? Permian? Niobrara? Well, defying all expectations of analysts and investors alike, it’s likely to be the Gulf of Mexico (GOM), with production...
Everyone in the oilpatch is now nervous that the United States could run out of oil storage capacity.  This “storage issue” is now Big News, and is driving light oil prices in the US—WTI—to fresh six year lows of $42-ish a barrel. I see a lot of copy on the...
Could US oil production peak...NOW? Shale oil production in the United States could potentially stop growing as early as...now. As in March 2015. The information came out in the EIA’s latest Drilling Productivity Report which was published on March 9, 2015. The report predicts that US shale production in the month of April will exceed...
You can read a lot on the breakeven price for oil right now.  I think a lot of what you read now is missing the point--because I think the breakeven price for oil isn't all about economics.  There's a human element to this (and every) trade. I think the breakeven...
As energy prices hit 6 year lows in January 2015, energy producers across North America cut their budgets, and reduced growth expectations—often to zero. But not one Montney producer. So far, newly-listed and highly-regarded Seven Generations Energy (VII-TSX) is standing by their 2015 spend of $1.6 billion in the very liquids rich gas...
In a bull market when energy stocks are flying and everybody is making money—like the first eight months of 2014—investors don’t care about what I’m going to tell you now. It would have been a waste of my time to write this story in January 2014. But now it’s different; everybody...