Saudi makes oil for less than $10 a barrel. They and other low-cost producers are the only ones that will be able to compete after significant demand destruction occurs.
Saudi makes oil for less than $10 a barrel. They and other low-cost producers are the only ones that will be able to compete after significant demand destruction occurs.
https://bioage.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c4fbe53ef022ad3566378...
Some of them are in the low $20s.
On the other hand, Saudi Arabia needs oil to be >$80 in order to balance its budget: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-saudi-arabia-imf/saudi-ar...
For instance,the Exxon refinery in Baytown can refine darn near anything.
The EIA has a page to track it and he different types of crude oil here: https://www.eia.gov/opendata/qb.php?category=1292755
We can refine anything, but other places can not, so they pay more than we would for the nicer oil. We used to mainly get oil from Venezuela, which is extremely sour. Saudi Arabia affects our prices due to the world market, but we have never gotten much oil from there because of the long shipping distance.
Shale breakeven on the other hand has only gotten lower and lower. It’s not long ago that people were predicting break even at $75, now it’s probably $35-$40.
"Oil Demand for Cars Is Already Falling: Electric vehicles are displacing hundreds of thousands of barrels a day, exceeding expectations."
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-11-16/oil-de...
"China just re-shaped the future of the global car market" (the sales growth of ICE vehicles has now peaked in China)
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1086274497156546560.html
China produces enough electric busses to replace London's entire fleet every 5 weeks.
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/dec/12/silence-shenz...
Too much wind/solar/nuclear in the grid? Shunt that power towards oil operations equipped for on-demand oil extraction... /s
I'm not really sure what their long term strategy is considering they keep reducing supply to raise prices while the US is soaking up that supply and their total profits have to be going down since oil prices are not increasing drastically while their production drops while still selling at the presumably the same margin.