Despite a significant drop in the US rig count, oil ... steady decline in operating rigs we have seen since the beginning of this year, and the continued growth in shale oil and gas production ...

Now extrapolate that across the entire US shale sector and you quickly realize how fast the tone will change from drill baby drill to decline baby decline. Well, US crude oil production would ...

Why has U.S. shale production proven to be so resilient to low oil prices? I can think of (at least) three reasons ... Much of this decline in the price of drilling and completion services ...

More focused than ever on keeping spending in check, shale drillers haven’t been boring new wells fast ... production declines in all regions are possible.” The number of rigs drilling for oil ...

Shale wells decline somewhere between ... “That hits really fast when you’re not looking at new production.” - With no drilling at all, U.S. shale oil production would theoretically fall ...

The other reason is U.S ... suggested last month that oil production in the shale patch may be nearing its peak and consequent plateau. Messler cited accelerated decline rates for shale wells ...

Today we aren’t completing enough new wells to offset the accelerating decline rate ... year was that the U.S. shale oil plays were just getting started and that production would increase ...

Industry leaders have touted that shale gas, along with burgeoning shale oil ... production. Based on the reasons I discuss in detail in Cold, Hungry and in the Dark, such as high production ...

The industry is bracing for the OPEC Plus oil cartel’s meeting on Saturday, which is widely expected to further increase oil ...

Companies have since switched to hunting crude oil, but the huge drop ... that experts say is inherent to shale production. That sharp decline is one of the reasons - along with high profits ...

It's a stunning feat considering fracking made up less than 2% of American oil production in ... relatively quickly. The "fast-cycle" nature of shale is one of the reasons many believe the days ...

Yes, world oil players are producing more oil than consumers are using, supply is up due to the U.S. shale oil boom and the halting return of Libya's production ... much or as fast as it has ...