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Re: Peak Permian means Global Peak Oil will happen in 2020

Unread postby Plantagenet » Tue 19 Dec 2017, 01:10:06

AdamB wrote:... troll.... trolling.... troll.....


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Re: Peak Permian means Global Peak Oil will happen in 2020

Unread postby tita » Tue 19 Dec 2017, 04:11:56

Plantagenet wrote:EIA and OPEC predict US shale oil will add ca. 1 million bbls/day of new production in 2018

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The US TOS shale biz is currently losing money. If they increase oil production by 1 million bbls/day will they make up their losses on volume? :)

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As long as money is poured, they will make money... Maybe not profits yet.

I'm not sure how much US shale can grow in 2018... Just that it will grow, maybe as much as this year (~500 kb/d), but the 1mb/d figure will require more investment than there is today. Too much people take last month data as a guidance, but there are multiple reasons for a month to be over or under the long term trend. August was under and september was over...
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Re: Peak Permian means Global Peak Oil will happen in 2020

Unread postby Plantagenet » Tue 19 Dec 2017, 13:14:38

IEA fears oil shortages by 2020 as new oil discoveries fall to record low

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Its pretty hard to have large new oil discoveries when most of the world has already been pretty thoroughly explored for petroleum.

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Hmmm.... that 2020-21 timeline on oil shortages is a perfect fit to this thread!
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Re: Peak Permian means Global Peak Oil will happen in 2020

Unread postby AdamB » Tue 19 Dec 2017, 13:26:03

Plantagenet wrote:IEA fears oil shortages by 2020 as new oil discoveries fall to record low



IEA predicted peak oil in 2006. So it is interesting that it took 14 years for them to finally get the consequences.

Of course, others AGREE that peak oil is scheduled in 2020. But it has nothing to do with shortages of course.
Peak oil in 2020. But odds are no one will care. Cancel peak oil rapture. Again.
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Re: Peak Permian means Global Peak Oil will happen in 2020

Unread postby AdamB » Tue 19 Dec 2017, 23:13:31

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Tony Seba rides in a clown car. His 'disruptive' paradigm depends on AI and driverless cars.


A more realistic scenario than waiting around for your brand of Rapture. Or should I say your NEXT brand of Rapture, considering that the last one came and went, and yet...you are still here with us!

You are just jealous, those who EV aren't emitting all those nasty CO2 molecules in their travels being so far beyond you in the ecologically minded department.
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Re: Peak Permian means Global Peak Oil will happen in 2020

Unread postby tita » Wed 20 Dec 2017, 03:59:23

Tony Seba's scenario is appealing... It's a nice future idea. But it's in the utopia prophecy kind of scenarios. The principle of technology disruptions is that you can't foreseen them, or what effects they'll have. Whatever the outcome you forecast, bad or good, it will be different.

There is currently no trend in a reduction of oil consumption. On the contrary, with the fall of oil prices, the consumption increased at a higher rate globally. Even through the 2010-2014 high prices era, consumption increased, although not in the US.

It's not that Seba is wrong... It's just that whatever EV and FSD fanboys are believing, it's not happening currently. Not that I'm against it. Maybe it's going to happen (certainly for a part of people). But I will doubt until it's really substancial. The current population believing in a near tech disruption is not representative of the needs of the global population.
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Re: Peak Permian means Global Peak Oil will happen in 2020

Unread postby tita » Wed 27 Dec 2017, 10:42:24

tita wrote:https://shaleprofile.com/index.php/2017/12/15/north-dakota-update-through-october-2017/

Older wells also appear to have grown, which may be related with refracking or completion of DUC, I don't know. At this rythm, Bakken will reach its 2015 high before the end of the year.

It appears that this growth in older wells was due to a refracking campaign in the summer.

It makes sense, especially in the Bakken, as early wells can benefit latest fracking techniques, without the cost of drilling a new well. But it doesn't hide the fact that there is a lack of new location to drill (at current prices), and producers are now focusing on the backlog of DUCs and the revival of older wells. Bakken will be interesting to follow in 2018... But beware of winter time in ND, it is not representative of longer trend as the weather usually slow operations.
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Re: Peak Permian means Global Peak Oil will happen in 2020

Unread postby zoidberg » Wed 27 Dec 2017, 11:23:38

Im pretty sure theres more resources globally awaiting proper investment conditions to come online. If north america alone had all this potential surely theres a lot more waiting in the wings.
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Re: Peak Permian means Global Peak Oil will happen in 2020

Unread postby AdamB » Wed 27 Dec 2017, 12:12:02

zoidberg wrote:Im pretty sure theres more resources globally awaiting proper investment conditions to come online. If north america alone had all this potential surely theres a lot more waiting in the wings.


400+ billion barrels globally, call it 325 billion if you take out the US for anyone who wants to take the time to keep up with such things.
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Re: Peak Permian means Global Peak Oil will happen in 2020

Unread postby tita » Wed 27 Dec 2017, 12:28:00

zoidberg wrote:Im pretty sure theres more resources globally awaiting proper investment conditions to come online. If north america alone had all this potential surely theres a lot more waiting in the wings.

Probably. But North America had a head start in shale in the presence of a large oil service industry and oil infrastructure, coupled with the availability of investment risk. It would require a huge investment to reproduce what happened in the US.

The most advanced project appears to be Vaca Muerta, in Argentina. But we talk about a 0.7 MMbbls/d growth in 5 years, less than the growth expected in the US just for 2018.

Remember also that in 5 years of high oil prices, there wasn't much increase outside North America and Middle East.
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What’s The Limit For Permian Oil Production?

Unread postby AdamB » Thu 18 Jan 2018, 12:03:16


The ‘hottest shale play’ has been the media’s favorite cliché for the Permian Basin over the past year. And while cliché, the basin straddling West Texas and New Mexico has lived up to this description—its oil production, unlike that in other basins, did not fall off a cliff during the downturn, it recently beat its own record from the 1970s, and is expected to continue to increase production more than any other U.S. shale play and account for most of the American oil production growth. The Permian has been pumping oil since the 1920s. Conventional oil production started to decline in the late 1970s, but the fracking boom revitalized the oil-producing region in the early 2010s, and as oil prices rose last year, the Permian beat its previous record for annual oil production dating back to 1973. The Permian surge in oil


What’s The Limit For Permian Oil Production?
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Re: What’s The Limit For Permian Oil Production?

Unread postby Plantagenet » Thu 18 Jan 2018, 13:13:50

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The ‘hottest shale play’ has been the media’s favorite cliché for the Permian Basin over the past year. And while cliché, the basin straddling West Texas and New Mexico has lived up to this description—its oil production, unlike that in other basins, did not fall off a cliff during the downturn, it recently beat its own record from the 1970s, and is expected to continue to increase production more than any other U.S. shale play and account for most of the American oil production growth. The Permian has been pumping oil since the 1920s. Conventional oil production started to decline in the late 1970s, but the fracking boom revitalized the oil-producing region in the early 2010s, and as oil prices rose last year, the Permian beat its previous record for annual oil production dating back to 1973. The Permian surge in oil


What’s The Limit For Permian Oil Production?


You quoted the intro for that article, but you've entirely missed the point. The article is discussing the LIMITS on permian oil production. Thats why its entitled "What's the limit for Permian Oil Production?" Get it now?

The quote you selected from the introduction to the article in its first paragraphs doesn't include the central point the article is making, i.e. that the Permian is close to reaching its peak in production. The conclusions of this interesting article are presented at its conclusion---not in the intro section. Did you just read the first two paragraphs and not bother to read the article all the way to the end?

Here.....I'll quote the main points of the article for you here:

"What's the limit for Permian Oil Production?"

....analysts have started to question just how long the Permian can keep pumping at this relentless pace before hitting geological or financial constraints.

According to Wood Mackenzie .... signs have started to emerge that the relentless intensification of drilling leads to diminishing returns, and pumping twice as much sand as usual into Permian wells and drilling longer laterals doesn’t deliver commensurate volumes of oil.....

In addition, drillers may soon start to test the Permian region’s geological limits. And if E&P companies can’t overcome the geological constraints with tech breakthroughs, WoodMac has warned that Permian production could peak in 2021


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Re: Peak Permian means Global Peak Oil will happen in 2020

Unread postby Plantagenet » Tue 23 Jan 2018, 19:34:20

Global Oil production outside the US predicted to decline in 2018

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Combine that with peak Permian in 2020-21, and we're looking at peaks in oil production both outside the US and inside the US.

My gosh---that means global peak oil in three more years!!!!!

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Re: Peak Permian means Global Peak Oil will happen in 2020

Unread postby Tanada » Tue 23 Jan 2018, 19:42:00

With the depressed production in Libya, Nigeria and Venezuela coupled with the OPEC+ promise to maintain production cuts to support prices any potential "world peak" 2018 has an awful lot of artificial factors working in its favor. It is just as likely that as Iraq continues to add production capacity, the Venezuela and Libya governments come around to a more rational leadership and OPEC+ decide that frackers in the USA need another lesson in 2019 will all lead to another over production boom year and price crash.
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Re: Peak Permian means Global Peak Oil will happen in 2020

Unread postby GoghGoner » Tue 23 Jan 2018, 22:15:46

It seems like right now things are going better for oil supply than I remember them. Iran's sanctions being lifted was huge, Libya and Nigeria are both doing much better than a few months ago, Iraq has been stable, etc...

For some pessimism on 2018. Mexico is just about a failed state. Venzuela isn't going the right direction. The chance for civil war in the Iran seems to be increasing. A drought in the corn belt could turn the Africa topsy turvy again by the end of the year.
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Re: Peak Permian means Global Peak Oil will happen in 2020

Unread postby Plantagenet » Tue 23 Jan 2018, 22:33:43

Yes, there are countries like Iraq and Iran where oil production has some room to increase. However, there are many other countries where production has already peaked and gone into decline. Whether or not global oil production peaks in the next couple of years will depend on the total global picture--ie. even if oil production is still increasing in a few countries, oil production declines are occurring in many more countries.

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Global oil production growth has been very slow for the last several years. Its inevitable that at some point it will slow even further and then stop growing.

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Re: Peak Permian means Global Peak Oil will happen in 2020

Unread postby Tanada » Wed 24 Jan 2018, 11:24:54

Plantagenet wrote:Yes, there are countries like Iraq and Iran where oil production has some room to increase. However, there are many other countries where production has already peaked and gone into decline. Whether or not global oil production peaks in the next couple of years will depend on the total global picture--ie. even if oil production is still increasing in a few countries, oil production declines are occurring in many more countries.

Global oil production growth has been very slow for the last several years. Its inevitable that at some point it will slow even further and then stop growing.

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Production growth of any commodity is ALWAYS minimal during periods of glut! Geeze Louise, it is not like losing money is the goal of oil exploration companies! Why in the world would anyone seek to explore for and develop new resources they then have to sell at a deep discount into a glut market cycle?

It may turn out the oil majors have declared a new policy of never looking for new resources, which would be quite surprising. Or it may turn out that once sale prices on the world market creep high enough the next generation of exploration will boom seeking new resources to exploit.

This isn't to say they will automatically find enough to replace consumption especially after all the recent growth we have experienced. However declaring that low growth in a glut market is some sign of imminent doom is at best premature IMO.
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Re: Peak Permian means Global Peak Oil will happen in 2020

Unread postby Plantagenet » Wed 24 Jan 2018, 12:46:58

Tanada wrote:...it may turn out that once sale prices on the world market creep high enough the next generation of exploration will boom seeking new resources to exploit.

This isn't to say they will automatically find enough to replace consumption especially after all the recent growth we have experienced. However declaring that low growth in a glut market is some sign of imminent doom is at best premature IMO.


No doubt exploration companies will pump up their exploration programs again when the price of oil creeps back up.

The key question is.....how much oil remains to be found?

Conventional oil production seems to have already peaked, and the boomlet created by US shale oil production isn't going to last forever either. The EIA is predicating their predictions of ever increasing global oil production on ever increasing US TOS production. But when you look at the US more closely, the only US TOS area still growing is the Permian basin, and some analysts predict it will also peak ca. 2020-21.

IF global conventional oil has already peaked, and US TOS oil production peaks in the next several years, then where will the world go to continue to grow its oil production?

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Re: Peak Permian means Global Peak Oil will happen in 2020

Unread postby Subjectivist » Wed 24 Jan 2018, 14:35:54

Don't forget Venezuela alone has over a TRILLION barrels of heavy and extra heavy oil, basically the same stuff Canada gets out of the tar sands and sells millions of barrels of a day. They also have the advantage of tropical weather making it easier to pump the stuff in the September through April period every year.

This is a huge resource and if the world needs regime change and moder refineries to make use of it I expect that to happen when really needed.
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Re: Peak Permian means Global Peak Oil will happen in 2020

Unread postby Plantagenet » Wed 24 Jan 2018, 14:46:58

Subjectivist wrote:Don't forget Venezuela alone has over a TRILLION barrels of heavy and extra heavy oil, basically the same stuff Canada gets out of the tar sands and sells millions of barrels of a day. They also have the advantage of tropical weather making it easier to pump the stuff in the September through April period every year.

This is a huge resource and if the world needs regime change and moder refineries to make use of it I expect that to happen when really needed.


Yup.

But Venezuela has a socialist government that is so incompetent that it can't even keep production levels up for its regular oil, much less start a new program to develop its heavy oil. And even if Venezuela somehow fixes the problems with their government and tries to start producing the heavy oil, they will still face the same problems that Canada does with their tar sands. (1) its very expensive to produce oil from tar sands, limiting the amount of oil that can be produced this way. AND (2) it requires a long process involving both mining and retorting the tar sands, limiting the amount of oil that can be produced this way.

I may be wrong, but I don't see Venezuela's tar sands becoming a major source of new oil any time soon.

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