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April 09, 2019
The future of the oil market may resemble the past―specifically the 1990s― according to Goldman Sachs Group.
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April 05, 2019
The Texas Alliance of Energy Producers Annual Meeting and Expo was held this week in Irving, Texas, just northwest of Dallas. During the opening panel session, the Texas vs. national economies were examined.
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March 20, 2019
The Energy Transition Outlook is a model-based forecast of the world’s energy system through to 2050 and, owing to DNV GL’s independent view and technical expertise, has become a widely cited voice on the energy future.
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March 13, 2019
The U.S. government cut its oil production forecast for the first time in six months as drillers scale back in smaller shale plays and the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
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March 11, 2019
OPEC’s loss of market power to what was once its biggest customer will continue until the middle of the next decade as U.S. shale oil thrives.
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February 2019
In the November 2018 mid-term elections, all 435 seats in the House of Representatives, 35 Senate seats, and 36 governorships were contested.
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January 31, 2019
In its first update to the 2019 Canadian Drilling Activity Forecast, the Petroleum Services Association of Canada (PSAC) has revised the number of wells drilled (rig released) across Canada for 2019 to 5,600 wells.
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January 22, 2019
After years of gloom, the oil industry’s out of its slump.
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January 10, 2019
Oil prices are likely to trade between $60/bbl to $70/bbl range by mid-2019, barring sharp economic slowdown.
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January 10, 2019
Norway’s oil regulator reduced its forecast for production this year, predicting crude output could drop to the lowest in three decades before recovering in 2020.
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January 07, 2019
Goldman Sachs Group cut its oil price forecasts for 2019, citing a re-emerging surplus and resilient U.S. shale production.
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December 11, 2018
Contrary to some observers who focus intently on trade data as a proxy for demand, China’s total oil product demand rose by only 150,000 bpd in 2018.
Article
December 2018
By all measures, most of 2018 has been an improvement on 2017, which was markedly better than 2016.
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December 09, 2018
Attention operators! World Oil has launched its 2018 year-end drilling survey, and we need your input to make the upcoming World Oil first-of-year Forecast a success.
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November 07, 2018
The oil fields of West Texas don’t sit still for long.
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October 30, 2018
Oil, gas and chemicals executives see higher oil and natural gas prices on the horizon, but new findings from Deloitte’s “2018 Oil, Gas and Chemicals Executive” survey reveals that the industry has varying expectations for what the anticipated price recovery will bring.
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October 25, 2018
Major oil and gas exporters have weathered many upheavals in recent decades but a renewed commitment to reform and economic diversification will be vital to cope with the changing dynamics of global energy.
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October 22, 2018
Halliburton Co.’s optimistic outlook for the U.S. oil and gas industry in 2019 was overshadowed by a worse-than-expected projection for the final three months of this year as activity slows throughout North America.
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October 12, 2018
The International Energy Agency cut forecasts for oil demand this year and next because of growing threats to global economic growth, yet warned that dwindling spare oil supplies will keep prices high.
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September 13, 2018
In the September 2018 update of its Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) increased the forecast price for the Brent spot price to $73/bbl in 2018 and $74/bbl in 2019. EIA expects West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil prices will average about $6/bbl lower than Brent prices in 2018 and in 2019.
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August 07, 2018
The pace of U.S. crude production growth might be slowing or at least that’s what the government is seeing for now.
