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dir + images[randomCount] + ")"; </script> <div class="container content"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-lg-9 col-md-9 padright"> <h1 class="blogtitle">U.S. Shale Toughs Out OPEC Price Blows</h1> <p style="font-size:11px;">Monday, May 4th, 2015 and is filed under <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210308122449/https://www.arescotx.com/category/oil-and-gas-current-events/" rel="category tag">Oil and Gas Current Events</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210308122449/https://www.arescotx.com/category/permian-basin-oil-news/" rel="category tag">Permian Basin Oil News</a></p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210308122449/https://www.arescotx.com/u-s-shale-toughs-out-opec-price-blows/shale-oil-well-west-texas/" rel="attachment wp-att-6323"><img loading="lazy" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-6323" style="border: 0px none; margin: 5px 10px;" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20210308122449im_/https://www.arescotx.com/wp-content/uploads/shale-oil-well-west-texas-225x300.jpg" alt="Shale Oil Well in west Texas" width="225" height="300" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20210308122449im_/https://www.arescotx.com/wp-content/uploads/shale-oil-well-west-texas-225x300.jpg 225w, https://web.archive.org/web/20210308122449im_/https://www.arescotx.com/wp-content/uploads/shale-oil-well-west-texas.jpg 540w" sizes="(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px"/></a>Is the U.S. shale revolution finally succumbing to OPEC’s output-generated price slump? No doubt U.S. producers are scrambling to keep ahead of pressures exerted by the gap in global supply and demand as the cartel attempts to gobble up market share. But the U.S. shale boom <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210308122449/http://money.cnn.com/2015/03/17/investing/oil-price-opec-us-shale/" target="_blank">is proving more resilient</a> than many cartel members had hoped. Now even OPEC concedes U.S. output levels won’t ease at least until late 2015, if at all. American output has remained steady despite disruptions wrought by a collapse that has <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210308122449/http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2014/12/economist-explains-4" target="_blank">driven prices down by half</a> since June 2014.</p> <p>That’s in contrast to the cartel’s February report, when OPEC forecast <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210308122449/http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/16/opec-oil-idUSL6N0WI2CL20150316" target="_blank">sharp increases in demand for its output in 2015</a> due to a projected shortfall in non-OPEC crude supplies.</p> <p>The cartel pumped 30.02 million barrels per day last month, indicating a supply surplus of 830,000 barrels per day through 2015.<span id="more-6321"></span></p> <p><strong>Shale Agility</strong></p> <p>So why hasn’t OPEC’s strategy of spurning output cuts to prop up <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210308122449/https://www.arescotx.com/tag/crude-oil/">crude oil</a> prices brought U.S. producers to heel? Simple: agile U.S. producers swiftly moved to aggressively cut costs and drive gains in productivity. Sure high-cost North American shale producers are feeling intense heat. Severe hits to profits, employment, and investment—plus the idling of equipment—bears that out.</p> <p>Add-in that at 825, the number of rigs in the U.S. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210308122449/http://www.businessinsider.com/baker-hughes-rig-count-march-20-2015-3" target="_blank">is off by nearly half</a> since its peak last <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210308122449/http://marketrealist.com/2015/01/us-oil-rig-count-racing-peak/" target="_blank">October of 1,609</a>—the highest count since January 2005. But so far U.S. production is leveling off rather than collapsing–despite the sharp cut in activity. Producers are generating savings by pressuring suppliers of drilling, hydraulic fracturing, and other services on costs, realizing reductions on the order of 20 to 30 percent. In addition, they’re redirecting resources, slashing the least performing rigs and rig crews and concentrating high performance assets and crews where they can realize the greatest gains.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210308122449/http://www.txoilinvestments.com/" target="_blank"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-4720 size-full" title="Investing in Texas Permian Basin Oil" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20210308122449im_/https://www.arescotx.com/wp-content/uploads/investing-in-permian-basin-oil.jpg" alt="Investing in Texas Permian Basin Oil" width="600" height="200" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20210308122449im_/https://www.arescotx.com/wp-content/uploads/investing-in-permian-basin-oil.jpg 600w, https://web.archive.org/web/20210308122449im_/https://www.arescotx.com/wp-content/uploads/investing-in-permian-basin-oil-300x100.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px"/></a></p> <p><strong>Productivity on Steroids</strong></p> <p>On top of that, producers are successfully generating productivity gains through new techniques. They’re adapting technologies and processes from deep water offshore drilling such as sophisticated sensor technology and mathematical models. As they drill, they’re using imaging systems to scour formations for natural cracks to leverage natural channels. They’re returning to wells drilled years ago to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210308122449/https://www.arescotx.com/oil-gas-industry-consulting-services/field-revitalization/">refrack</a> or inject specially formulated fluids to restart flows. Sometimes they’re able to return these old wells to peak output sans the costs of sinking new holes. They’re drilling more wells with fewer rigs with promising results.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210308122449/https://www.arescotx.com/u-s-shale-toughs-out-opec-price-blows/eia-us-energy-information-administration/" rel="attachment wp-att-6329"><img loading="lazy" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-6329" style="border: 0px none; margin: 5px 10px;" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20210308122449im_/https://www.arescotx.com/wp-content/uploads/eia-us-energy-information-administration-300x150.jpg" alt="EIA - U.S. Energy Information Administration" width="300" height="150" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20210308122449im_/https://www.arescotx.com/wp-content/uploads/eia-us-energy-information-administration-300x150.jpg 300w, https://web.archive.org/web/20210308122449im_/https://www.arescotx.com/wp-content/uploads/eia-us-energy-information-administration.jpg 630w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px"/></a>Data from the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210308122449/http://www.eia.gov/petroleum/drilling/pdf/dpr-full.pdf" target="_blank">Energy Information Administration</a> show productivity gains of 24 percent at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210308122449/https://www.arescotx.com/tag/eagle-ford-shale/">Eagle Ford</a>, 29 percent at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210308122449/https://www.arescotx.com/tag/bakken-shale/">Bakken</a>, and 30 percent in the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210308122449/https://www.arescotx.com/tag/permian-basin/">Permian Basin</a>. Yet overall production is poised to slip for the first time in six years as declines from older wells overtake production from newer wells. So far, declines hitting Eagle Ford, Bakken, and the Niobrara formation spanning Colorado, Nebraska, and Kansas, were papered over by gains in the Permian. There, technology and efficiency improvements are having a bigger impact as the region was largely characterized by vertical drilling as recently as December 2013.</p> <p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>RELATED >> <a style="color: #ff0000;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210308122449/https://www.arescotx.com/eagle-ford-fuels-corpus-christi-boom/">Eagle Ford Shale Fuels Corpus Christi Boom</a></strong></span></p> <p>U.S. producers are boldly experimenting too. They’re attempting to further drive down costs by adopting manufacturing models for the drilling process. By standardizing designs, equipment, and operations, producers can generate economies of scale.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210308122449/http://www.usoilinvestments.com/" target="_blank"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-5412 size-full" title="Investing in Shale Oil" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20210308122449im_/https://www.arescotx.com/wp-content/uploads/why-now-is-the-time-to-invest-in-oil.png" alt="Why now is the time to invest in oil..." width="600" height="40" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20210308122449im_/https://www.arescotx.com/wp-content/uploads/why-now-is-the-time-to-invest-in-oil.png 600w, https://web.archive.org/web/20210308122449im_/https://www.arescotx.com/wp-content/uploads/why-now-is-the-time-to-invest-in-oil-300x20.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px"/></a></p> <p>Bottom line: U.S. producers are wringing-out inefficiencies and realizing production performance gains at an unprecedented rate. 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