Only about 4 percent of U.S. shale oil production needs prices above $80 for drillers to break even, the International Energy Agency said today in its monthly oil market report. Producers are getting more oil per dollar spent drilling, driving costs down as much as $30 a barrel since 2012, Morgan Stanley (MS) analyst Adam Longson said in a report yesterday.
“Prices aren’t low enough to put these projects at risk,” Matthew Jurecky, head of oil and gas research for the London-based research company GlobalData Ltd., said by e-mail today from New York. “The profit margin on most commercial unconventional oil plays will support prices as low as $50, many below that even.”
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Date: 2014-10-17 08:32 am (UTC)“Prices aren’t low enough to put these projects at risk,” Matthew Jurecky, head of oil and gas research for the London-based research company GlobalData Ltd., said by e-mail today from New York. “The profit margin on most commercial unconventional oil plays will support prices as low as $50, many below that even.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-14/u-s-shale-oil-output-growing-even-as-prices-drop-eia.html