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Strong and steady U.S. oil and natural gas production has in 2023 outpaced demand and weighed down prices. Analysts are increasingly joining a chorus of calls for a pullback on output – or even sharper price pressure moving into the spring. West Texas Intermediate crude traded around $75/bbl early this week, far from the highs…

U.S. oil producers remained active through January, with output last week holding at a pandemic-era high as it did across the month and in late 2022. The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said Wednesday production for the period ended Jan. 27 stood at 12.2 million b/d – on par with the prior week and the…

Matador Resources Co. has bolted on its largest deal yet in the Permian Basin in an agreement to acquire Advance Energy Partners Holdings LLC, with assets in New Mexico and West Texas.  The independent is providing an initial cash payment of  $1.6 billion, with an additional $7.5 million total paid monthly in 2023 if the…

U.S. crude inventories fell by 7.06 million bbl for the week ending Friday (Aug. 12), a much larger draw than expected, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) said. In the weekly petroleum report issued on Wednesday, EIA said the inventory declined compared to a build of 5.5 million bbl in the previous week. The American Petroleum…

American oil producers were active by 2022 standards last week. However, total output held flat for the third straight period and remained far below pre-pandemic levels, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said Wednesday. Production for the week ending April 29 totaled 11.9 million b/d, according to EIA. That was on par with the high…

Lofty energy prices, driven by steady demand and global supply shocks imposed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, present U.S. exploration and production (E&P) companies both profit opportunity and potential hazard. As the first quarter E&P earning season gets in full swing over the coming weeks, markets are expected to focus on whether companies are able…

Executives in the energy breadbasket of the country are forecasting Henry Hub natural gas prices to average $4.06/MMBtu at the end of 2022, according to the latest quarterly survey by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. The Dallas Fed, as it is known, every three months surveys exploration and production (E&P) companies and oilfield services…

As the recent discovery of the Covid-19 Omicron variant has renewed concerns about a potential decline in consumption, Brent crude oil spot prices are set to average $71/bbl in December and $73 through the first quarter of 2022, according to updated projections from the Energy Information Administration (EIA). In an updated forecast published Tuesday as…

As oil and natural gas prices surged, drilling and energy business activity across the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s footprint hastened in the third quarter, results of a new survey show. The Kansas City Fed, as it is commonly known, said its quarterly Tenth District Energy Survey found that oil and gas firms collectively…