#53649
Re: Cobas AM: Nueva Gestora de Francisco García Paramés
Entiendo que la clave en la tesis bullish del petroleo es lo que ponen aquí:
We want to once again emphasize how important the US shales are to global oil balances. We first published Table 1 in our Q2 2018 letter. The table clearly shows that conventional non-OPEC oil production outside of the US and Canada has declined by almost 130,000 b/d each year over the past decade. The fact that conventional non-OPEC oil production has rolled over is a huge problem that has received little attention by oil analysts. To put this in perspective, conventional non-OPEC oil production still represents 45% of global oil production and now appears to be in sustained decline. Furthermore, if you include other sources of non-OPEC production, such as Canadian Oil Sands (which is not considered “conventional”), biofuels, refinery gains, and OPEC NGLs (which are not part of the OPEC quota systems), the US shales still represent an enormous 75% of the total non-OPEC liquids growth over the last decade. Now that the Bakken and Eagle Ford are facing exhaustion issues that are readily becoming apparent, nearly all of non-OPEC’s production growth will have to come from just one play in West Texas–the Permian. Never before has the global oil industry been so dependent on one field in such a concentrated geographic area for all of its future growth. What happens in the dozen counties that make up the Permian will make or break the global oil market over the next 10 years.
Global oil demand has surged by over 13 mm b/d over the last eight years alone. As a result, even with the surge in US shale oil production OPEC has needed to add nearly 3 mm b/d of new supply to keep the market balanced. With conventional production growth turning negative outside of the US and Canada, it is easy to see how dependent the world has become on the growth of the US shales in general, and the Permian basin in particular. Any faltering in shale production growth should result in a rapid market tightening. In this situation, robust oil demand will need to be rationed by price – a situation not unlike what occurred between 2000 and 2008—a period that eventually saw oil prices exceed $140 per barrel.
The only material source of growth in the non-OPEC world over the past decade is now showing signs of exhaustion and nobody seems to notice. The implications could be tremendous.