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7 Years of Oil PDR at Current U.S Consumption;
15 Years of Gas PDR @ 40 TCF/Yr.
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“Okay, I’ll tell you how I feel about the oil business. I don’t like it, but I do like the dividends. Because of the dividends, I’m willing to bless them. But if they didn’t have good dividends, believe me, I wouldn’t go near the group because I think that the group is just not in good shape.” Jim Cramer, CNBC
In late 2014 world oil prices collapsed from U.S. shale over production. OPEC got the blame for that but it was 4.8 MM BOPD of LTO that drove the price down $60. To fix that Congress lifted the oil export ban in 2015. The shale sector in early 2016 immediately added 500 rigs and went on a drilling binge that lasted 4 years and put ANOTHER 4 MM BO on the world oil market.
OPEC lost a big chunk of its market share to U.S tight oil production the last 15 years as it has cut ITs production, consistently, to keep prices propped up and to allow the United States to drain itself, first.
Below chart, the entire time the U.S. was on its drilling binge OPEC was cutting its production levels.
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