Industry: Upstream and E&P

It’s not quite the Golden Age of Refining but downstream capital spending and profitability is up.

Flaring is the controlled combustion of unusable or unsellable natural gas, while venting releases raw methane directly into the atmosphere. Although flaring is less environmentally detrimental than venting, both practices represent a squandering of valuable energy resources, and companies prefer to capture natural gas due to its economic worth.

U.S. sanctions on Iran, set for November 4, 2018, are anticipated to exacerbate a global oil supply deficit amid rising demand, potentially driving oil prices to $100 per barrel.

The ADI ForumTuesday, February 13, 2018Houston, TX ADI Analytics’ second annual conference, the ADI Forum was held on Tuesday, February 13, 2018 in Houston, Texas at the Norris Conference Center in CityCentre. The ADI Forum brought together oil and gas majors, E&P and refining independents, chemical players, diversified industrials, licensors, and investors to discuss markets, […]

Growing U.S. crude oil production, heavily reliant on Permian output projected to be nearly 50% in two years, faces a major hurdle from insufficient Permian takeaway capacity, causing a substantial price discount.

Produced and flowback water treatment along with sourcing water for fracturing is the new midstream growth opportunity.

Increased coal and natural gas demand faces challenges due to the economic competitiveness of natural gas in power generation. Substantial declines in natural gas operating costs, driven by lower fuel prices resulting from hydraulic fracturing, contrast with rising coal operational expenses, making coal expansion economically unfavorable.

Uday Turaga, leveraging ADI Analytics’ research and consulting experience, discussed oil prices and their impact on U.S. shale oil production.

Wastewater management is becoming a critical issue in the growth of unconventional resource plays. Interest in wastewater treatment is driven by growing volumes of produced water from hydraulic fracturing that need disposal. Based on our research there are multiple factors that will impact how oil and gas producers will handle wastewater one of which is […]

Oil demand growth, OPEC cuts, shale’s rising costs and capex discipline should support high oil prices but private equity worries us.

At the 2018 ADI Forum, ADI Analytics’ annual oil and gas conference, Colin McHattie, Director, Technology Assessment, Unconventional New Ventures at Halliburton; Shree Vikas, Director, Market Intel & Bus. Analysis at ConocoPhillips; and Diptabhas Sarkar, Lead Engineer, Project Mgmt & Control at Statoil, discussed key points including shale strength, falling breakeven costs, the resurgence of […]

At the 2018 ADI Forum, Uday Turaga, CEO of ADI Analytics, presented a 2018 oil and gas outlook, forecasting abundant and cheap natural gas, with new oil supply coming from U.S. onshore and OPEC. He highlighted rising oil demand from emerging markets and increasing gas demand driven by LNG and pipeline exports, positioning the U.S. […]