U.S. oil and gas drillers are slowing down drilling activities, as evidenced by a consistent decline in active rig counts across major basins in 2024 and 2025. This slowdown is driven by several factors: Lower Oil and Gas Prices: West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude prices have hovered around $62 per barrel in 2025, close to […]
Continue ReadingWeekly Daily Standup Top Stories U.S. Largest Grid Operator is warning of Summer Power Shortages May 11, 2025 Clark Savage Key Points Research suggests potential summer power shortages in the U.S. grid, especially in PJM’s region, due to high demand and retiring plants. It seems likely that extreme heat could strain the grid, potentially causing […] Newsom […]
Continue ReadingDaily Standup Top Stories Saudi Arabia Spends Like Oil’s Still at $90 May 12, 2025 Clark Savage ENB Pub Note: Excellent article from Irina Slav at Oilprice.com. This article reinforces Doomberg’s comments about OPEC and its viability in the future as a cartel. Last week on the Energy News Beat podcast, he […] Republicans Push to Refill […]
Continue ReadingUnited Arab Emirates-based jackup rig pure-play Shelf Drilling has revealed a couple of extensions for its rigs and some news regarding its fleet in its latest status report. The company said that its Trident 16 rig secured a three-month extension with the Belayim Petroleum Company (Petrobel) in Egypt in February. The initial deal with the company was […]
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ENB Pub Note: We will cover this issue on the Energy Realities podcast with David Blackmon, Irina Slav, Tammy Nemeth, and Stu Turley live on X, YouTube, and LinkedIn Monday morning at 8:00 Central US. Watch to see Shell and/or BP move to the U.S. to avoid long-term regulatory and windfall profit taxes from the […]
Continue ReadingWeekly Daily Standup Top Stories Why Spain’s Rooftop Solar Owners Weren’t Spared From the Blackout May 4, 2025 Clark Savage ENB Pub Note: Rooftop solar panels on homes are not bad; they must be appropriately designed and set up for disaster use. I have taken the time to learn how to get the rooftop solar, […] Saudis […]
Continue ReadingBrazilian state-owned giant Petrobras has revealed it will decommission almost 70 offshore platforms and FPSOs, three of which it has already decided to repurpose. Petrobras said that it is planning on decommissioning 68 platforms, two this year and a total of ten by 2029. The remaining 58 will be removed after that. This is according […]
Continue ReadingSource: The Crude Truth Substack, Rey Trevino It brings up some interesting points about an American Company helping a foreign country to overproduce their OPEC+ production quotas. We have often wondered why they were not adhering to their agreed-upon quotas, but we have to look at the individual government’s need for cash for the answer. […]
Continue ReadingDaily Standup Top Stories Why did Saudi Arabia raise prices to the Asia market while increasing OPEC+ production quotas? May 7, 2025 Clark Savage Earlier this week, I published an article titled “What does the OPEC+ increase of 411,000 mean to the United States?” I was asked about Saudi Arabia’s increase in the Asia market and how […]
Continue ReadingARO Drilling, a joint venture of New York-listed offshore driller Valaris, has signed extensions for five jackup rigs with Saudi giant Aramco. The extensions, all for five years, were signed for the Valaris 250, Valaris 116, Valaris 146, Valaris 140, and Valaris 141 or as ARO Drilling referred to them in its statement, the Bob […]
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