Re:The global oil market is broken, drowning in crude nobody...
by empath75 on Sunday March 29, 2020 @09:20AM
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It is too difficult and expensive for this. Most of them are taking a loss at this price.
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Re:The global oil market is broken, drowning in crude nobody...
by evjrob on Sunday March 29, 2020 @09:29AM
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True, but tight oil production that was previously though to be impossible to extract economically has more than offset losses in conventional production. Peak oil predictions of decades past presumed this could only happen when oil prices rose so high that alternative energy sources would be competitive. Therefore these reservoirs would remain uneconomic. Instead fracking got really cheap.