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Now that Occidental Petroleum has beaten Chevron to the acquisition of Anadarko Petroleum – and the strategic assets it holds in the prolific Permian Basin – one would think that the deal is cut-and-dry. The Occidental purchase of Anadarko had all the signs of a classic takeover battle, swooping ...TODAY IN ENERGY: In 2018, 90% of the natural gas used in the United States was produced domestically
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But not only is it the first ever LNG sale for the country, it is also the first commercial output from the Vaca Muerta shale play – one of the world's largest shale formations and a potential game changer for the hobbling Argentine economy. The US EIA goes even further, estimating that the Vaca ...Upcoming OPEC Meeting: What to Expect
With Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov suggesting that there was a risk that oil prices could fall as low as US$30/b and the Saudi Arabia-Russia alliance preparing for a US$40/b oil scenario, it looks more and more likely that the production deal will be extended to the end of 2019. The maj ...The Permian is Ripe for M&A Battle
Next is Diamondback Energy, a Permian pure-play firm that has valuable assets in the Midland Basin as well as the prized (and prolific) Delaware Basin. Brushing up against Pioneer's acreage is ExxonMobil and Chevron's own boundaries, and its new status as a Permian pure-play makes Pioneer particu ...
The deal would have given Chevron significant and synergistic acreage in the Permian Basin along with new potential in US midstream, as well as Anadarko's high potential projects in Africa. And so Oxy was victorious, capping off a two-year pursuit by Hollub for Anadarko – which only went public a ...Shale Gas Opportunities Open-up in the Australian Outback
Power plants in Saudi Arabia burned an average 0.4 million barrels per day (b/d) of crude oil in 2018 directly for power generation, the lowest amount since at least 2009, the earliest year that data are available from the Joint Organizations Data Initiative (JODI, Figure 1). Saudi Arabia relies ...
The purchase of Anadarko gets Chevron into two prolific areas: the Permian Basin in the US and LNG. Through Anadarko, Chevron will gain major US midstream space, including a 55% stake in the Western Midstream Partners whose pipelines crosses all over Texas, linking the Permian to the processing a ...Moving the Shale Revolution Offshore
With output of only 43,000 b/d last year – not including its 150,000 b/d share of the Abu Safah field shared with Saudi Arabia – Bahrain has been hit hard since the oil price crash in 2014. Last year, Bahrain announced its largest-ever oil and gas discovery in the Khalij al-Bahrain Basin – a find ...Is The Saudi - Russia Oil Bromance Souring?
Prior to the meeting, Saudi Arabia had gone on record to state that the Kingdom believed that OPEC's job in rebalancing the oil market was far from over and that output cuts were necessary to continue into the second half of 2019. In the past, Saudi Arabia would most likely to be able to bully it ...Analysis: Electric cars and the Permian: Saudi Arabia in Lea County by Dr. Daniel Fine
Some 30,000 children marched in Belgium weeks ago against Climate Change. It is only a matter of two years before a few members of Congress, alone with only cameras today, will march at the head of crowds of 500,000 down Pennsylvania Avenue. It will have its colors; green — and yellow for the Frenc ...Alternative Facts About OPEC & U.S. Shale From The Wall Street Journal
Posted in The Petroleum Truth Report on December 19, 2018 The Wall Street Journal's recent editorial “ How America Broke OPEC ” shows that even high-quality journalism is susceptible to the contagion of alternative facts. It is a propaganda piece about how the underdog U.S. oil industry miracul ...Art Berman - The Petroleum Truth Report
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News of the size of oil reserves in the Delaware Basin (New Mexico's share of the Permian) while OPEC was deciding how many barrels it will cut from the world market to lift prices caused epic confusion – and revelations of how little “authorities” and the media understand petroleum economics. The ...Lonestar Announces Eagle Ford Shale Acquisition, Increased Senior Secured Credit Facility
FORT WORTH, Texas , Nov. 19, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Lonestar Resources US Inc. (NASDAQ: LONE) (including its subsidiaries, "Lonestar," "we,", "us," "our" or "the Company") announced that it has closed an acquisition of producing properties in the Eagle Ford Shale play (the "Acquisition"). Lonesta ...
e Vaca Muerta Shale Basin in Argentina is the only unconventional play outside of North America where activity has already made the transition from exploration to full-scale development. The potential prize is huge – geographically, the Vaca Muerta Shale is three times the size of the highly prolif ...
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