Most North
American oil producers, on average, require a WTI price of roughly $ 35 a barrel to break even.
Solidarity among its members has weakened further, however, as it becomes clearer and clearer to them that they underestimated the resilience of
American oil producers.
While there, I had dinner with a couple of Canadian lawyers who represent a few Latin
American oil producers, some of them based in Venezuela.
Most North
American oil producers, on average, require a WTI price of roughly $ 35 a barrel to break even.
Not exact matches
And with supplies from Iraq threatened with disruption — in recent years, Iraq was the only major
producer increasing its output faster than the U.S. and Canada — that
American oil is only going to get more competitive in the marketplace.
The world's major
producers have made a concerted effort to slow the advance of
American oil production by increasing the supply and therefore reducing the price.
Canada's energy
producers are hurting as the North
American oil benchmark dropped to a fresh six - year low Monday, closing at US$ 38.24 a barrel.
Since the 1970s, the
oil trade has almost entirely been conducted in U.S. dollars, even when buyers and
producers are not
American.
The price gap between North
American crude and world prices is a new and unfamiliar dynamic in international
oil markets, and represents a «double whammy discount» for Western Canadian
producers, as Casey puts it.
The hard fact for North
American producers is only now are we seeing a true market price for crude
oil.
Until very recently, it was the world's top
oil producer and exporter, before the
American shale boom catapulted the U.S. into first place.
Chinese electricity demand is to Australian coal miners, what the
American motorist is to Canadian
oil producers.
Beyond the actual gas project and LNG sales, China's state - run shipping conglomerate COSCO has also secured a 50 percent stake in the four LNG shipping carriers serving Yamal.90 Chinese engineers and workers have been deployed to the Yamal Peninsula to help construct surrounding infrastructure, which includes a Chinese - produced polar drilling rig.91 Moreover, a Chinese
oil and gas rig
producer now provides Russia with about 60 percent of its imported
oil rig supplies, indicating that China is becoming a dominant player in this sphere.92 Chinese media recently hailed Yamal as an example of China's construction and engineering prowess and a symbol of its transformation into an Arctic player.93 In return for China stepping into support the project, senior officials from Novatek, the main shareholder of the project, announced that the first LNG shipment would symbolically go to China.94 But a British subsidiary of Malaysia's Petronas purchased the first shipment of Yamal LNG and sold it to France's Engie, which then shipped the cargo to its Boston import facility for
American use.95 Western sanctions on Novatek, Russia's largest independent national gas
producer and a company with close ties to the Kremlin, made Yamal's pivot to China possible, as sanctions forced Russia to find an alternative source of investment and technology.
In order to accommodate North
American oil production that continues to increase,
producers have been putting millions of barrels a week into storage.
The failure of high cost North
American producers to cut production in an oversupplied world
oil market is setting the stage for another leg down in
oil prices.
Such an agreement would help support
oil prices — Saudi Arabia, in particular, seeks higher prices to take Saudi Aramco, the world's largest energy company, public — but it's likely
American shale
producers would ramp up production to fill the void.
In addition to
oil and gas
producers, manufacturers worry about maintaining their access to the
American market, and whether they'll be hit by new Republican protectionism — arising from the White House or Congress.
As expected, OPEC announced after its last meeting that it would keep
oil production levels the same in its bid to force higher - cost
producers (re:
American frackers) to trim their own operations.
«For a
producer that big, you have to be in every market in the world to place your
oil,» said Elizabeth Rosenberg, director of the Energy, Economics and Security Program at the Center for a New
American Security.
A rush to invest and drill Top
producers Chesapeake Energy and Exxon Mobil Corp., along with hundreds of big and small
oil and gas
producers, are pouring billions of dollars into developing North
American shale formations.
Its members include many big
American producers and consumers of coal,
oil and electricity — such as Dow Chemicals and the National Coal Association — all of whom might suffer from controls on emissions of carbon dioxide.
The Gulf spill has focused
American minds on pollution from Canadian
oil producers.
Purportedly set up to represent «small, independent
oil and natural gas
producers,» instead «Energy in Depth» is funded by some of the largest
oil companies on the planet, such as Chevron, BP, Shell and Occidental, along with the
American Petroleum Institute and other trade associations.
From the article:... Two Texas A&M University scholars are calling for an end to the U.S.
oil export ban because it penalizes domestic crude
producers, hurts the global economy and harms
American interests abroad.
The quick reaction time by some of the high - cost
producers, notably the
American shale
oil drillers, is why one of the world's foremost oilmen, Sadad Al - Husseini, the former executive vice-president of Saudi Aramco, the world's biggest
oil and gas company, is becoming bullish on
oil even as Brent prices sink to the low $ 60s.
Focused initially on reducing methane and volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions, the Environmental Partnership includes 26 natural gas and
oil producers, who produce a significant portion of
American energy resources.
BloombergView: It's a pernicious bit of
American mythology that is used to justify the law against domestic
oil producers selling their crude overseas: The U.S. needs «energy independence.»
Steyer's war against America's energy
producers corresponds with Putin's efforts to subvert
American oil and gas production.
During the past decade,
American crude
oil production jumped 88 percent and natural gas production increased 46 percent, catapulting the United States to our current position as the world's leading
oil and natural gas
producer.
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Producers on a Roll Quote of the Day: Daniel Imhoff on Obesity and the Farm Bill Will the High Price of
Oil Make
Americans Skinnier?
The United States is the world's leading
producer of
oil and natural gas, the result of an
American energy renaissance powered largely by private investment and safe and responsible hydraulic fracturing.
Thanks to the
American energy revolution, the U.S. is the world's leading
producer of
oil and natural gas.
Nigel has been advising on the meaning and effect of an early termination clause in a series of charterparties between shipowners and charterers who subcharter to a South
American national
oil producer.