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WSJ: Oil is Near $100. Shale Isn’t Coming to the Rescue.
Posted on 9/28/23 at 8:44 am
Posted on 9/28/23 at 8:44 am
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U.S. oil prices soared Wednesday to their highest level in more than a year. Most frackers plan to stay on the sidelines.
Surging global demand coupled with output cuts by Saudi Arabia and Russia have sent crude prices to levels not seen since last August. The increase is hitting consumers at the pump, vexing policy makers’ fight against inflation and posing new challenges for President Biden ahead of the 2024 election.
Though some analysts say oil prices could soon hit $100 a barrel, U.S. shale companies aren’t rushing to drill more. That means that unlike in past years when frackers flooded the market with crude and alleviated pressure, oil prices might remain elevated until someone else adds production or demand ebbs.
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Some oil executives said most of the shale industry plans to stand pat even as global oil prices increase further. Most shale companies have vowed to hand over their winnings from high energy prices to investors via share buybacks and dividends. They also face pressure from inflation and high interest rates.
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Exxon, one of the largest shale drillers, cut its working U.S. drilling rigs down about two this year to 17, well below the 65 it had running in the Permian and other fields before a pandemic-induced oil downturn in 2020, according to energy-analytics firm Enverus.
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Its closest rival, Chevron CVX -0.08%decrease; red down pointing triangle, has increased its rig count by three to 18, though that is still fewer than its prepandemic fleet of 25, Enverus data show. The rig increase also reflects its acquisitions of smaller drillers Noble Energy and PDC Energy over the past three years.
Bruce Niemeyer, Chevron’s president of Americas exploration and production, said in past years investors fled from U.S. oil companies when drillers dispatched new rigs in pursuit of high prices, which proved too costly to turn a profit. Niemeyer said the company’s strategy under CEO Mike Wirth boils down to one word: discipline.
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The Biden administration clashed with frackers last summer as gasoline prices hit historic highs, with White House advisers and President Biden calling for oil companies and their investors to pump more oil and quell prices. Last month, rising fuel costs spurred consumer prices to climb at their fastest pace in more than a year, but the administration has remained mostly quiet on oil production so far.
The U.S. remains an oil and gas superpower. Rystad Energy forecasts that American crude production is on track to hit a record 13 million barrels a day in September. But the industry’s recovery from the pandemic was relatively slow—it last recorded 13 million barrels a day in November 2019—and it appears that it is no longer willing to grow rapidly to meet rising demand.
Some of the recent growth came from private operators, who added rigs in response to higher oil prices last year and helped push up the national output.
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Kirk Edwards, an executive at a small Texas oil producer, said that the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies’ price-setting power contributed to making U.S. producers gun-shy.
“In one month, they can make a decision to put two million more barrels a day on the market, which will drive the price [of a barrel of oil] from 90 to 60 dollars,” he said.
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Despite rising oil prices, investors have continued to signal they won’t pour money into companies seeking to increase drilling, as they did in years past. “We tried to tempt our respondents by asking, ‘What if oil is $90 [a barrel]?’” the firm said. “Most, but not all, claimed activity will not change.”
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Those fracking frackers and their corporate greed!
Oh well, we won’t need fossil fuels anymore by 2030, so no need to panic.
Posted on 9/28/23 at 8:45 am to ragincajun03
Unicorn farts will come to the rescue!
Posted on 9/28/23 at 8:45 am to ragincajun03
WSJ has become another government mouthpiece lately.
Posted on 9/28/23 at 8:46 am to ragincajun03
Just go plug in your car. Problem solved. Lol
Posted on 9/28/23 at 8:48 am to ragincajun03
Good thing we can all afford electric cars.
Quick - let's build more solar farms on perfectly good agricultural land while simultaneously shutting down higher output generators because they happen to run on natural gas or coal.
Quick - let's build more solar farms on perfectly good agricultural land while simultaneously shutting down higher output generators because they happen to run on natural gas or coal.
Posted on 9/28/23 at 9:15 am to ragincajun03
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Those fracking frackers and their corporate greed!
It’s more about OPEC and their ability to frick over American producers. If we weren’t so married to propping up illegitimate regimes (I’m looking at you House of Saud) OPEC wouldn’t be so powerful.
I get it was maybe a necessary evil 20+ years ago but now we should tel them to frock off and allow production here to stay here. Go total isolationist on energy.
Posted on 9/28/23 at 9:18 am to ragincajun03
$100 oil is good for Louisiana.
Posted on 9/28/23 at 9:21 am to ragincajun03
The real toll of the green push is just beginning. They’ve taken away the basic economic functions of supply and demand pricing by overburdening the production side.. no point in wading through the mess when you can feed off over valuation and artificially inflated prices
This post was edited on 9/28/23 at 9:22 am
Posted on 9/28/23 at 9:22 am to Mid Iowa Tiger
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now we should tel them to frock off and allow production here to stay here
You’d have to ban the owners of the barrels of oil from exporting. You’d also have to ram through new refineries that would process more light crude.
Posted on 9/28/23 at 9:23 am to ragincajun03
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You’d have to ban the owners of the barrels of oil from exporting.
That's how it was for decades
Posted on 9/28/23 at 9:25 am to canyon
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Just go plug in your car. Problem solved. Lol
Exactly!
There are loads of naturally occurring electricity just sitting in our walls waiting to be used.
Posted on 9/28/23 at 9:27 am to Jcorye1
WSJ jumped the shark in early COVID. That's when I dumped my subscription.
Posted on 9/28/23 at 9:29 am to Mid Iowa Tiger
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It’s more about OPEC and their ability to frick over American producers.
American producers are making bank due to OPEC driving up the price
Posted on 9/28/23 at 9:29 am to Mid Iowa Tiger
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It’s more about OPEC and their ability to frick over American producers. If we weren’t so married to propping up illegitimate regimes (I’m looking at you House of Saud) OPEC wouldn’t be so powerful.
I get it was maybe a necessary evil 20+ years ago but now we should tel them to frock off and allow production here to stay here. Go total isolationist on energy.
We can't demand domestic producers produce. They are free to do what they want as they should be...they do not giver a tinkers dam about market share because their market is one which has routinely experienced production cuts to drive up supply because there is almost no way to vary demand. They are, as this article points out, not interested in ramping up production at $100 a barrel because they can make plenty of money with no additional risk or expense at current production levels.
The problem with oil today is the same as it has been since the 1970s. There is no alternative product and demand is almost rock steady. These facts allow producers control the price far more than most products are controllable. You can't drive a train or a ship or a car on an alternative product...you are stuck on oil no matter how low the supply and high the price....
Posted on 9/28/23 at 9:31 am to ragincajun03
sweet, my XLE shares going to the mooooooon
Posted on 9/28/23 at 10:12 am to weadjust
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American producers are making bank due to OPEC driving up the price
Yes, currently, but they also remember being fricked by an OPEC/Russia price war as we hit the demand slump from Covid.
I seem to remember them getting their legs similarly cut out in the mid 2010s.
Yeah, Id be slow to ramp up too if you've been fricked twice in the last ten years.
Posted on 9/28/23 at 10:19 am to Duke
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Yes, currently, but they also remember being fricked by an OPEC/Russia price war as we hit the demand slump from Covid.
I seem to remember them getting their legs similarly cut out in the mid 2010s.
Yeah, Id be slow to ramp up too if you've been fricked twice in the last ten years.
Anyone in their right mind would be....especially considering the insane amount of profits they are making, the crippling labor shortage they face in most of the oil patch and the fact that OPEC can manipulate the price down and still make money, or not, doesn't matter because they do not answer to shareholders, without any down side to OPEC. We can drill baby drill but when the man who owns the drill ain't willing to plug it up whose gonna make him and on what authority???
Posted on 9/28/23 at 10:48 am to ragincajun03
US Rig Count continues its downward trend.
Posted on 9/28/23 at 10:51 am to Mid Iowa Tiger
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I get it was maybe a necessary evil 20+ years ago but now we should tel them to frock off and allow production here to stay here. Go total isolationist on energy.
That’s all fine but the US doesn’t have the refining capacity to be dependent on light oil production only.
Posted on 9/28/23 at 10:52 am to ragincajun03
Anybody knows where we stand with the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Did Poopy Pants re-fill it after he tried to flood the market with it???
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