Forecast
News
February 20, 2017
The Brent crude price benchmark for millions of barrels of physical crude sales each day is poised for its biggest shakeup in a decade with a new grade added to the mix from January next year.
News
February 14, 2017
EIA’s recently released Annual Energy Outlook 2017 (AEO2017) Reference case projects that U.S. tight oil production will increase to more than 6 MMbpd in the coming decade, making up most of total U.S. oil production.
News
February 08, 2017
ABB Ltd. said the first signs of order growth in two years are not enough to call a turnaround as dwindling demand from the oil and gas industry and an increasingly uncertain political situation weigh on the outlook.
News
February 06, 2017
Donald Trump and global crude producers are set to take prices on a bumpy ride this year, according to the world’s biggest independent oil trader.
News
February 02, 2017
British subsea companies are expecting to increase overseas activity in the next 12 months, according to a survey conducted by industry body, Subsea UK.
News
February 02, 2017
Royal Dutch Shell appeared to put the worst of the oil slump behind it as rising cash flow allowed Europe’s largest energy company to trim debt for the first time since the downturn began.
News
February 01, 2017
Chairman Christi Craddick met with leadership at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (Dallas Fed) this week to discuss this year's outlook for the state's oil and gas industry. According to economists with the Dallas Fed, Texas oil and gas drilling activity will increase throughout this year.
News
January 25, 2017
PetroChina, the country’s biggest listed oil and gas producer, said full-year net income in 2016 fell by as much as 80%, putting it on pace to report a record-low profit.
News
January 25, 2017
Oil demand growth will slow and supplies will remain abundant in the coming decades, meaning producers in the Middle East, Russia and U.S. will continue to gain market share at the expense of higher-cost rivals, said BP.
News
January 25, 2017
OPEC and other oil producers are likely to comply fully with a deal to reduce supply, bringing global crude markets into balance early this year, Kuwaiti Oil Minister Essam Al-Marzouk said.
News
January 18, 2017
Oil fell in New York, reversing earlier gains, after the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA) predicted a rebound in U.S. supply.
News
January 16, 2017
Egypt's gas market is poised to undergo profound changes in the next five years, and these could have an impact on the global LNG market, seeing Egypt position itself as a prominent seasonal player, research from global natural resources consultancy Wood Mackenzie shows.
News
January 11, 2017
The oil industry will shake off the effects of the biggest downturn in a generation this year as they more than double project approvals and increase exploration spending for the first time in three years, according to Wood Mackenzie.
News
June 02, 2016
U.S. exports of shale gas stand to increase confidence in the fuel as a long-term energy source, while giving Europe the chance to diversify its natural gas supplies, Norway Petroleum and Energy Minister Tord Lien said Wednesday.
News
November 10, 2015
Anadarko Petroleum Corp. approached Apache Corp. about a combination that would be the largest for an independent U.S. oil and gas producer this year and would create an explorer that pumps more crude than OPEC member Ecuador.
News
November 06, 2015
U.S. crude explorers pulled back drilling rigs for a 10th straight week as conviction grows that the worst oil downturn in decades is nearing its bottom.
News
November 05, 2015
In a record downturn for the oil industry, cash is everything to companies and dividends are everything to their investors.
News
November 04, 2015
Mexico isn’t breaking up with U.S. oil refiners, but it sure seems like it wants to see other people.
News
November 04, 2015
An unusually high number of rigs are competing for a Det Norske Oljeselskap ASA drilling contract on the Alvheim oil field in the North Sea, an illustration of how companies are desperate for business as producers slash spending amid a crude-price slump.
News
November 02, 2015
Crude declined from its highest closing level in two weeks as a measure of manufacturing activity signaled contraction for a third straight month in China, the world’s second-biggest oil consumer.
