State of the Energy Industry Amid COVID-19, Aging Workforce, Electrification
The energy industry has always had one rock solid foundational belief — worldwide demand for hydrocarbons would rise as more and more nations enlarged their GDP through increased energy demand. Demand forecasts are still unpredictable due to a number of COVID-19-related factors: a troubling rise in cases in Europe, parity in deaths in U.S. red […]
When Midstream Shows Its Teeth
Understanding volume risk has become a major concern for midstream operators and their investors as commodity price volatility this year impaired growth expectations among upstream counterparties. Once regarded as relatively safe investments due to contracted volumes and seemingly endless production growth, the midstream industry (loosely defined as the companies that gather, process and transport hydrocarbons) […]
When Oil Prices Stabilize, Find New Arbitrages with Better Data
For the oil traders who feed off volatile price movement and market inefficiencies to make profits, the past few months have been a bit of a drag. After the first half of 2020, which was the most volatile period of many crude traders’ careers, the third quarter brought oil merchants a calm, range bound WTI […]
OPEC + Cuts: Credit Where It’s Due
OPEC’s oil market balancing challenge got tougher and more complex over the past two decades. The organization cut oil production in the face of the 2008 financial crisis, the surge in U.S. liquids growth and most recently the COVID-19 crisis. The scale of OPEC cuts required to balance the market through these crises has risen […]
DUCs Thin the Bill
During the height of the downturn in May, rigs and completions crews dwindled quickly – completion crews dropped over 85% while the rig count dropped 60% in just three months. That disconnect helped create a large accumulation of drilled uncompleted (DUC) wells as E&Ps waited for higher prices before completing wells and turning them sales. Operator […]
Surviving the Oil Downturn By Outsourcing Business Processes
Request Info As operators strive to streamline costs and operations, business process outsourcing (BPO) proves effective in meeting these demands. BPO is when one company hires another company to perform some of its essential work processes. BPO processes typically fall into two major areas — back office and front office processes. Back office processes are the […]
Battling Blackouts with Accurate Renewable Power Forecasting
As a professional power market forecaster, you better believe that I hate to see instances of rolling power blackouts. Americans from California to New York are experiencing power interruptions this summer, which brings on loads of new market risks to individual consumers and businesses alike. Thankfully, the latest scare in California was manageable for utilities […]
Delivering Oil Price Transparency When It’s Most Needed
U.S. oil markets are rounding off one of the most volatile and dramatic decades in recent memory. Just since the end of 2014, we’ve experienced two major price downturns as well as a massive shift in global crude trade flows. The U.S. yielded so much oil output that it became the biggest producer globally and […]
Revived Market Volatility Changes Everything for Risk Analysts
The world is transforming before our eyes. New market realities at play for energy risk managers were unthinkable before the emergence of COVID-19 and risk management has never been more important to energy and commodity traders. From 2020 onward, the people who analyze price risk will throw away their old playbooks. Risk analysts must push […]
Appalachian Gas Deals Buoy Sinking M&A
Austin, Texas (July 1, 2020) – Enverus, the leading oil & gas SaaS and data analytics company, has released its summary of Q2 2020 U.S. upstream M&A. The update shows upstream deals staged a small recovery to $2.6 billion from only $770 million during Q1. However, Q2 still ranks as the third lowest quarterly value […]