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Can Ultra’s Increased Activity Reverse Green River Basin Declines?

August 29, 2017 | Daniel Orenstein

A few months ago we wrote about Ultra Petroleum’s (Nasdaq: UPL) drilling plans following their emergence from bankruptcy. Ultra Petroleum was a top independent E&P a decade ago, but experienced financial troubles when the shale boom created a natural...
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Electric Vehicles a Boon to Gas-Fired Power Gen?

August 25, 2017 | Kathryn Downey Miller

The media blitz surrounding the delivery of Tesla’s first Model 3 sedan, the company’s first mass-market vehicle, got many in the energy market thinking about the impact of greater electric vehicle (EV) adoption. Does this represent a major risk...
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The Next Round of LNG Export

August 23, 2017 | Andrew Bradford

The next round of LNG export projects have been making headlines, and based on recent announced E&P activity and relatively weak gas demand in 2017, the U.S. gas market may need these projects as a new source of demand...
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GOM But Not Forgotten: Mexico’s Gulf of Mexico Revival

Can Deepwater Gulf of Mexico Economics Sustain Growing Production?

August 17, 2017 | Jake Fells

In 2013, Mexico initiated steps to reform the state-run oil and gas monopoly to allow foreign entities to explore for resources. Last month, two separate discoveries in the Mexican Gulf of Mexico (‘GOM’) were announced with a combined estimated...
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U.S. E&Ps Flying Blind: Lack of 2018 Oil Hedging Leaves Production Vulnerable

August 15, 2017 | Matt Hagerty

As U.S. oil production growth appears to be heavily weighted to the back half of 2017, how much cash producers can secure for those barrels will be a major factor in whether lofty production targets can be maintained into...
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Tightened Global Oil Balance Drives Crude Rally, But Will it Last?

August 10, 2017 | Erika Coombs

Crude prices have rallied from the summer lows in June to break $50/bbl once again as the impact from OPEC cuts has started to trim the global oil market’s excess storage levels, but the ability for OPEC cuts to...
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What the New FERC Quorum Means for the Marcellus and Utica

August 6, 2017 | Matthew Hoza

On the night of August 3rd, the US Senate confirmed a package of new Trump administration nominees before adjourning to go on recess. Among those 65 nominees approved were the administration’s first two nominees to the Federal Energy Regulatory...
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