
US oil sector faces complicated path
A few US oil company CEOs have already sounded the alarm about a potential decline in production.
A few US oil company CEOs have already sounded the alarm about a potential decline in production.
World oil demand will rise by 1.38 million barrels per day in 2026, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries said in a monthly report
Once energy security is achieved, Africa can play a greater global role as it builds out its downstream
Elevated oil prices may be here to stay for the medium-to-long term, but it would have to take extreme geopolitical risks to push prices into triple digits in the immediate future, according to Ole Hansen, head of commodity research at Danish investment bank Saxo Bank.
Nigeria was unable to produce about 22.658 million barrels of crude oil valued at N1.22tn in the first quarter of this year due to its persistent inability to meet the crude oil production quota approved for the country by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
”Revisions were mainly to account for slower than anticipated demand from China and India in Third Quarter 2021.
Members of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and their allies, including Russia, yesterday failed to reach an agreement on production levels for February, with talks expected to continue today.
OPEC members were served an unpleasant surprise from exempted fellow Libya. The country’s warring factions reached a ceasefire, and some long-shuttered oil ports have been reopened, along with the fields that feed them.
“Our infrastructure has suffered lasting damage, and our focus now must be on maintenance and securing a budget for the work to be done. We also must take steps to ensure Libya’s oil production is never again held to ransom,” Sanalla added.
The drastic spending cuts across the U.S. shale patch due to the low oil prices will likely lead to a 6.1-percentage point slump in total U.S. fixed business investment.