Oil price news

Dan Munro, CEO of PJ Valves writes about the benefits of a long-term approach to changing oil prices.

Rystad Energy, the independent energy research and consultancy, has analysed the historic investments and oilfield service purchases of the world’s 50 000 oil and gas fields.

Over US$151.5 billion in capital expenditure will be spent over the lifetime of the top ten offshore oil projects to produce 14.3 billion barrels of crude, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.

Regional Oil and Gas industry reflections from Mike Blakemore, Senior Vice President at Advisian Abu Dhabi.

Add Energy has recently secured work with three operators in the North Sea for the provision of Environmental Management and Reporting Software (NEMS Accounter).

EIA now forecasts Brent crude oil spot prices to average US$51/bbl in 2017 and US$52/b in 2018. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil prices are expected to be US$2/bbl lower than Brent prices in 2017 and 2018.

Rystad Energy now predicts that US oil production grows so fast that an all-time high of 10 million bpd could be reached before December 31st this year.

Nizam Hamid, Head of Strategy in Europe at WisdomTree, considers how today's OPEC meeting will affect the volatility of the oil price.

With abundant supply potential, Rystad Energy expects US gas companies to see a large LNG export potential to China after President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping reached the bilateral trade agreement last month.

Sam Wahab, director of oil & gas research at Cantor Fitzgerald Europe, comments on this week’s Opec meeting and the planned listing later this year of Aramco by Saudi Arabia.