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Today’s Stunted Oil Prices Could Cause Oil Price Shock In 2020

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As oil prices remain unsteady and OPEC continues to make headlines every hour, the world is focused on oil’s immediate future. In a speech made at the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators’ 2017 International Petroleum Summit, Johnston laid out his concerns for the future of oil.

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Why Is The Shale Industry Still Not Profitable?

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shale companies, and found that “despite rising prices most firms under our study are still in losses with no signs of improvement.” The average return on asset for US shale companies “is still a measly 0.8 percent,” the financial services company wrote in its report. Not everyone is posting poor figures.

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ExxonMobil seeking to boost growth, continue work on lower-emissions technologies including biofuels and carbon capture

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ExxonMobil expects to increase annual earnings potential by more than 140% and double potential annual cash flow from operations by 2025 from 2017 adjusted earnings, assuming a 2017 oil price of $60 per barrel adjusted for inflation and based on 2017 margins. In Brazil, the company has acquired 2.3

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US Shale Is Now Cash Flow Neutral

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Oil prices are probably already high enough to spark a rebound in shale production. The IEA says that in the third quarter of 2016, the US shale industry became cash flow neutral for the first time ever. Even when US oil production hit a peak at 9.7 If we go back down to $50 (or lower) in 2017.then

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Supply Crunch Or Oil Glut: Investment Banks Can’t Agree

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This year, shale output forecasts combine with OPEC’s production cuts, geopolitical factors, and unexpected outages to further complicate supply/demand and oil price forecasts by Wall Street’s major investment banks. Beyond 2017, the impact of a collapse in longer-cycle conventional investment over 2014-16 begins to be felt.

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Sasol bails on $13-$15B US GTL project, divests from Canadian shale; no new greenfield GTL

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At the company’s Capital Markets Day 2017 in Johannesburg, South Africa, Sasol management said that the company will no longer pursue its proposed ) project in the US ( earlier post ) and furthermore will not invest in additional greenfields gas-to-liquids (GTL) projects.

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IHS Markit: US oil production growth heading for a major slowdown, as capital discipline and weak prices play out

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This comes at a time when companies are facing a prolonged period of lower prices and when access to financing from capital markets has become difficult, the report says. It all represents the strongest headwinds for shale producers since the oil price collapse in 2015. —Raoul LeBlanc. —Raoul LeBlanc.

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