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Re: Cobas AM: Nueva Gestora de Francisco García Paramés
Como la llevas en el nyse ? Mediante DEGIRO? A que precio entraste ? Con la caída del viernes estoy más que tentado .
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Loving Málaga
Loving Málaga
Prices have been firming and currently stand at $3.60 per mmcf, over 40% higher than the start of the year and more than double this time last year. In fact, Henry Hub natural gas, which normally experiences price spikes in the winter due to heating demand, is at its highest seasonal level since 2014. Despite the rally, there has been little in the way of a drilling response. According to the Baker Hughes rig count, only 30 rigs have been put back to work since bottoming at 68 in July 2020. As of today, 100 rigs are drilling for gas compared with 200 as recently as 2019.
Since their initial development in the early 2000s, the US shale gas fields have completely overwhelmed US gas markets. Between 2007 and 2020, shale production grew by an incredible 68 bcf/d on a starting base of 50 bcf/d. Over that time, the shales represented 150% of total US production growth, with conventional supply declining steadily. Notably, the Marcellus (in Pennsylvania) and associated gas from the Permian (in Texas) were responsible for nearly 70% of that increase. In 2019, our neural network indicated that both plays were in the early stages of resource exhaustion. We predicted both basins would have a hard time growing at the same rate as in prior years and may actually begin to decline.
Our models appear to be correct. Between December 2019 and June 2021, the Marcellus has been flat while the Permian has added only 1.1 bcf/d. To put these figures into perspective, over the eighteen months between June 2018 and December 2019, the Marcellus added 6.5 bcf/d while the Permian added 5.5 bcf/d. In other words, Marcellus growth declined by 98% while Permian growth fell by 80%. While COVID certainly impacted drilling activity, recent production trends have not improved. Year to date, production from the Marcellus and Permian combined is down 250 mmcf/d. If the shales stop growing, total US production would decline quite quickly. For example, total US dry gas production peaked in December 2019 at 97 bcf/d. As of April (the most recent month with complete data), US supply was down 4.5 bcf/d or nearly 5% to 92.5 bcf/d. Given that preliminary data suggests the shales declined between April and June, it seems almost certain total US dry gas production has continued to decline as well.