Gas Prices Continue to Fall
The price of oil continues to drop and Goldman Sachs is now placing their oil futures for 2015 at a sickly $42 per barrel. This is great news for consumers, obviously, but could spell the end for many fracking operations and other shale projects. This news comes at the heels of already major blows to the industry, with the Keystone XL pipeline bill looking dead on arrival and the recent ban on fracking for the entire New York state.
It is no secret that fracking is a very unproductive industry and the price per barrel of oil needs to be at least $60 to provide any gains.
With the price expected to stay in its freefall state, all the smaller drilling companies are expected to go belly-up this year, with WBH Energy LP already leading the way in its recent announcement to file bankruptcy on a debt accumulated of up to $50 million dollars.
Riding the Bull
OPEC has decided to keep oil production steady and believes that it is up to the market to fix itself. Sounds a bit insane, but the oil and gas industry is not a pretty business to begin with, playing nice is not part of the rulebook.
Concern from oil’s biggest producers, Venezuela and Saudi Arabia, is merely for show, as we have already heard from the Saudi prince billionaire Al-Waleed bin Talal that he wants to keep the price per barrel low because, as he has said to USA Today:
“If some supply is taken off the market, and there’s some growth in demand, prices may go up. But I’m sure we’re never going to see $100 anymore. I said a year ago, the price of oil above $100 is artificial. It’s not correct,”
Needless to say, investors all over the globe are putting their money elsewhere for 2015. Alternative energy is the future and only those who are the very top of the totem pole will weather the storm that is coming. To-date, oil prices have fallen by 50% in the past decade, use this as an opportunity to reinvest your money into more future-proof commodities.
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