Forecast

News
October 16, 2024
Enverus industry analysts have released a summary of 3Q24 upstream M&A activity, with the pace of deals significantly slowing in the third quarter of 2024 to just $12 billion in announced deals.
News
October 15, 2024
Oil prices dropped and concerns over supply chain disruption were eased Tuesday after a report that Israel may avoid targeting Iran’s crude infrastructure. Traders’ focus is now turned back to the International Energy Agency’s expectations of a surplus early next year.
News
October 14, 2024
OPEC trimmed its forecasts for oil demand growth this year and next for a third consecutive month as the group belatedly recognizes a slowdown in global fuel use.
News
October 11, 2024
bp Plc expects its net debt to have risen in the third quarter due to lower refining margins and changes to the timing of asset sales. 
News
October 07, 2024
Mike Sommers, president and CEO of the American Petroleum Institute (API), addressed the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association in Santa Fe today, emphasizing the critical role of U.S. energy security amid rising global tensions.
Article
September 2024
Optimism is slowly returning to the Canadian oil and gas sector, as global economic forces finally appear to be outpacing the misguided climate policies of the nation’s beleaguered federal government.
Article
September 2024
After a year of upstream growth and success in 2023, operators are reducing costs, rig activity and drilling time in an effort to boost domestic energy security while returning cash to shareholders.
News
September 13, 2024
The Texas Alliance of Energy Producers (the Alliance) board of directors has appointed Karr Ingham as the organization’s new president, effective July 1, 2024.
News
June 18, 2024
Improvements in drilling and fracking techniques amid a wave of corporate takeovers will drive the expansion and more than offset recent reductions in rig deployments, analysts at the the London-based bank wrote in a note titled ‘Underestimate U.S. shale at your peril.’
News
May 02, 2024
The offshore energy industry is taking a significant step toward understanding and protecting endangered seabirds with the launch of the Offshore Nesting Bird Census.
News
April 14, 2024
In its first forecast for 2025, the Paris-based IEA predicted demand growth of 1.1 MMbpd in 2025. It also trimmed its estimate for this year’s expansion in consumption by 130,000 bpd to 1.2 MMbpd. The agency’s growth estimate is below the 1.9 MMbpd predicted by world’s largest independent oil trader, Vitol Group, and about 1 MMbpd less than the increase foreseen by OPEC.
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